Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . as to have him graduate atYale College, and study for the ministry. His uncle died,and he never went to college; nevertheless, by diligent studyhe acquired an excellent education. He began to learn the tailors trade in New Haven at four-teen years of age. Five years later, (1788,) he removed toNew York, where he attended a meeting among the Method-ists for the first time, and heard one of their ministers unconverted, he admired the s
Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . as to have him graduate atYale College, and study for the ministry. His uncle died,and he never went to college; nevertheless, by diligent studyhe acquired an excellent education. He began to learn the tailors trade in New Haven at four-teen years of age. Five years later, (1788,) he removed toNew York, where he attended a meeting among the Method-ists for the first time, and heard one of their ministers unconverted, he admired the simplicity and zeal ofthat people, and his prejudice against them was thoroughlyremoved. At twenty years of age he was living with the family of aMethodist class leader and exhorter in the city of these favorable associations he was influenced to becomea Christian, and was admitted by Henry Willis to probationin the Methodist Episcopal Church, June 19, 1790. The fol-lowing October he went to reside in the parish of Ripton,Fairfield Co., Conn., where the civil officers were peti-tioned to warn him to leave the town because he was a. Jt&tc. Ljh&cJhutsr- REV. WILLIAM THACHER. Record of Ministers. 157 There he saw a member of the Methodist Episco-pal Church, who lived seven miles away, and who invited himto a meeting held by that people near his home. He soon re-moved to New York, taking with him the following letter, writ-ten by the apostle of Methodism in the New England States : The bearer, William Thacher, calls himself a Methodist, and I hope he isa steady, well-meaning person. Jesse Lee. He joined a ciass in the John-street church which met Sab-bath morning at sunrise. He married Miss Anna Mtmson, ofNew Haven, and took up his residence there. His wife wasconverted one year after their marriage. He states that heheard the first Methodist sermon in New Haven,2 and was oneof five to form the first Methodist class in that place in 1795, ofwhich he was appo
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