Jesse Lee

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Jesse Lee

Jesse Lee.
Born March 12, 1758(1758-03-12)
Prince George's County, Va.
Died September 12, 1816
Baltimore, Maryland
Occupation Preacher and chaplain
Religious beliefs Methodist

Jesse Lee (March 12, 1758 – September 12, 1816) was an American Methodist Episcopal clergyman and pioneer, born in Prince George's County, Va. A preacher after 1783, in 1789 he visited New England and established Methodism from the Connecticut River to the farthest settlement in Maine. He preached his first sermon (outdoors) on June 7[1] or 17[2], 1789 in Norwalk. He formed the first Methodist class in New England, at Stratford, Conn., Sept. 26, 1787, and the first in Boston, July 13, 1792, and for his pioneer work in New England was often called the Apostle of Methodism. He was a friend and assistant of Francis Asbury. He lacked only one vote of being elected Bishop by the General Conference of 1800. Lee was three times chosen chaplain of the national House of Representatives and once of the Senate. He wrote A Short Account of the Life and Death of the Rev. John Lee (1805) and a History of Methodism in America (1807), which has value for the early period.

[edit] Literature

  • Minton Thrift, Memoir of the Rev. Jesse Lee, with Extracts from his Journals (New York, 1823)
  • L. M. Lee, Life and Times of Jesse Lee (Richmond, Va., 1848)
  • W. H. Meredith, Jesse Lee, A Methodist Apostle (New York, 1909)

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://numc.axelhouse.com/history.html accessed February 13, 2008
  2. ^ http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2002/06/daily-06-17-2002.shtml accessed 13 February 2008

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