Lott Cary

Biography

Lott Cary (also in records as Lott Carey and Lott Gary) (1780 – November 10, 1828) was an African-American Baptist minister and lay physician who was an early missionary in and founder of the colony of Liberia in West Africa in the 1820s. He founded Liberia's first Baptist church in 1822, now known as Providence Baptist Church, in Monrovia. He served as the colony's acting colonial agent from August 1828 to his death in November that year.

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