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 or 17, 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.
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)
References
^ http://numc.axelhouse.com/history.html accessed February 13, 2008
^ http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2002/06/daily-06-17-2002.shtml accessed 13 February 2008
External links
Jesse Lee United Methodist Church in Easton, CT established 1789
Jesse Lee United Methodist Church in Ridgefield, CT established 1789
North United Methodist Church in Manchester, CT organized 1790
Cox Memorial United Methodist Church in Hallowell, ME mentions preaching by Jesse Lee in town on October 13, 1793
Readfield (ME) United Methodist Church Jesse Lee Meeting House dates to 1795
Duncan United Methodist Church in Georgetown, SC mentions Jesse Lee visiting in February 1785
Jesse Lee preached at Dudley Chapel in Sudlersville, MD (est. 1783)
The Jesse Lee homes in Alaska were Methodist run orphanages started in 1890 as a tribute to Jess Lee
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