While studying at Andover, a group of like-minded Christians, namely Adoniram Judson, Samuel Newell, Luther Rice, Gordon Hall, and Samuel John Mills, presented their enthusiasm for overseas missionary service to the General Association of Congregational Churches, Bradford, Massachusetts; later, in 1812 Mills led the establishment of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), the first foreign mission agency in North America.
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] In 1812, upon reaching Calcutta, they were denied residence and were ordered to be deported by the colonial British East India Company; hence, the group went to neighbouring lands.
Luther Rice returned to the United States to solicit funds for the establishment and maintenance of the Baptist Mission in India.
Unlike their fellow missionaries, Samuel Nott and Gordon Hall left Calcutta and found refuge in Bombay, where they started a covert mission work.
[4] With broken health, Nott returned to the United States in 1816, and worked as a schoolteacher in New York City till 1823.