an early Methodist preacher, was born at Colford, Somersetshire, England, in 1734. He was converted as a result of Wesley’s visit to the parish in which he was born. From the: age of twenty-one to thirty he was a class- leader and steward; a local preacher at thirty-one; and, at the age of thirty- four, he left a lucrative business to preach, at Wesley’s. request, in the east of Cornwall. He desisted from the work in 1798, and thereafter was a class-leader in his native place. He died at Halcomb, Somersetshire, Feb. 9, 1818. See Jackson, Early Meth. Preachers, v, 296; Wesl. Meth. Mag. 1818; Minutes of the British Conference, 1818.<\/p>\n
Ashman, William an early Methodist preacher, was born at Colford, Somersetshire, England, in 1734. He was converted as a result of Wesley’s visit to the parish in which he was born. From the: age of twenty-one to thirty he was a class- leader and steward; a local preacher at thirty-one; and, at the age of … Continue reading “Ashman, William”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}