Considered to be the first Caribbean minister in British Methodism, he was born in Jamaica, a mullato, the son of a plantation owner and a slave and is thought to have been sent to Britain to be educated. While in London he was converted during a visit to a Primitive Methodist chapel in 1822 and is said to have been disowned by his family. Accepted as a PM missioner in 1824, h was stationed in various parts of the country, including the Channel Islands and the North of England. His first wife Mary, whom he married in 1830, died soon after childbirth the following year. From the Sunderland Circuit he was sent to work in its Channel Island and Dorset Missions; but in 1836 following a dispute with his colleague at Weymouth, he left Primitive Methodism along with a number of the members and entered the Baptist ministry. He served as pastor of a number of Baptist churches, including Cradley Heath, Staffs, and died at Brierley Hill in August 1881.

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