| Though only two of the five Williams students at the Haystack Prayer meeting ever left the United States, the impact of their passion for missions is widespread. Loomis, true to his early convictions, dedicated his life to domestic missions in the State of Maine. Robbins engaged in missionary work in New Hampshire before returning to pastor a church in his native state of Connecticut. Green preached for a short time before serving in New York State government and later in the U.S. Congress. Richards left America in 1815, serving as a missionary in India until his death in 1822. Mills engaged in missions in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, in the Southwest United States, and in New Orleans. He influenced the founding of the American Bible Society and the United Foreign Missionary Society before he died in 1818 while returning from a short-term mission trip to Africa with the American Colonization Society. |  From left to right: Rev. Francis LeBarron Robbins. Born 1787, at Norfolk, CT, died April 6, 1850, at Enfield, CT. Rev. James Richards. Born February 22, 1784, at Abington, MA, died August 3, 1822, at Calyon, India. Rev. Harvey Loomis. Born 1785, at Torringford, CT, died January, 1825, at Bangor, ME. |