[2] In 1849 Julian Moreton was stationed at Greenspond, Newfoundland, Bonavista Bay with financial backing from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (S.P.G.).
The Greenspond Mission was a very difficult area as it covered seventy miles of coast, 23 distinct settlements which had to be reached by boat, and more than 3,200 members of the Church.
Moreton gave several lectures when he returned to England, which were published in 1863 under the title Life and work in Newfoundland; reminiscences of thirteen years spent there (London).
The book gives a detailed account of his life as a missionary as well as valuable descriptions of society in Newfoundland outports during that time.
He often wrote letters for the illiterate, who made up the great majority of his parishioners: he records that “of 334 persons married in seven years previous to September, 1856, only 49 could write their names.” Apart from the merchants’ agents, the collector of customs, the doctor, and the schoolmaster, the inhabitants of the Greenspond area were fishermen.
[2] In 1860, while failing in health, Moreton was transferred to the Island Cove/Bishop's Cove Mission in Conception Bay for his final year in Newfoundland.
In his retirement Moreton continued to write and lecture on Anglo Catholic topics, often referring to his experiences in Newfoundland and quoting Bishop Feild.