a Baptist minister, was born at Illston, Leicestershire, England, October 11, 1800. He came to the United States in 1812; resided first in Otsego County, N.Y., and afterwards in the city of New York, where he joined the Baptist Church, and was licensed to preach, March 10, 1824. The same year he was ordained at Harpersville, N.Y.; in 1832 he became pastor of the Church in Bethany, where he remained fourteen years. He did much evangelical labor in Wayne County, during a period of thirty-five years, and thirteen churches were more or less under his pastoral care. He died about 1860. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. page 302. (J.C.S.)