Adoniram, Sr. was the pastor of a Congregational church in Malden when Adoniram, Jr. was born. The Judson family lived in Malden until moving to Wenham, Massachusetts in early , after . Adoniram Judson, missionary, was born at Malden, Massachusetts, August 9, Of his youth there is but little known. His father was a Congregational minister, but instead of responding to . Adoniram Judson was born on the 9th August , the son of a stern and humourless Congregationalist minister, in Malden, Massachus