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Ashman, William

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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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.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Ashman, William'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​a/ashman-william.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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