[2] In that year, he sailed for Tahiti with other missionaries on the Duff, but the ship was captured by French privateers.
He was not accepted by the established clergy in the city and was eventually jailed for performing baptisms, marriages and burials without authorization for civil registers.
[8] His time in Quebec was notable in advancing the rights of non-Catholics and non-Anglicans to worship in freedom and be protected by law.
[2] Bentom left the society, and enlisted in the Royal Navy as a ship's surgeon.
[2] Correspondence and other documents by Bentom are held in the Council of World Missions Archive, at the library of SOAS University of London.