Father: John Garrettson
Mother: Sarah Hanson
Marriage: Catherine Livingston
Married: 30 JUN 1793
in Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co., New York
Children:
Mary Rutherford Garrettson
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Born Anglican, Freeborn Garrettson, became a prominate American clergyman in the early Methodist movement. At the time of his conversion to Methodism (1775), he freed his slaves and began his journeys as a preacher where he travelled extensively in several of the states, and in 1784 went as a missionary to Nova Scotia. In 1788 he began his labors in the state of New York after being appointed by Bishop Francis Asbury. In 1791 he married Miss Livingston of Rhinebeck, and confined his labors mainly to New York, where he was eminently successful. He was a very popular preacher and key figure in the early Methodist movement. At the request of John Wesley, he wrote The Experience and Travels of Mr. Freeborn Garrettson (1791).
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"In 1788, Rev. Garrettson was appointed presiding elder for the district north of New York, then including all the circuits from New Rochelle to Lake Champlain. In 1793, he was married to Miss Livingston, daughter of Judge Livingston, of Clermont, in the manor of Livingston. In 1799, a mansion-house was erected on the bank of the Hudson, in Rhinebeck, where his family were settled during the remainder of his life. The following is a copy of the inscription on his monument, in the graveyard attached to the church represented in the engraving.
'Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Freeborn Garrettson, an itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He commenced his itinerant ministry in the year 1775. In this work he continued until his death, laboring with great diligence and success in various parts of the United States and Nova Scotia. He died in peace in the City of New York, September 27, 1827, in the 79th year of his age, and 52nd of his ministry. --Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace." Psalm 36:37--'"
"On Friday, the 28th, a numerous circle of family connexions, friends, and neighbors, who seemed deeply affected with their loss, were addressed at the house of the deceased by Rev. Thomas Burch. Afterwards the procession, which was long and solemn, slowly moved to the buring ground at Rhinebeck Flats, a distance of about two miles, where the funeral service was performed by the writer, and the corpse was deposited in the earth, to sleep till 'the resurrection of the just and the unjust.'"
Source: The Life of Freeborn Garrettson by Nathan Bangs
Mother: Sarah Hanson
Marriage: Catherine Livingston
Married: 30 JUN 1793
in Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co., New York
Children:
Mary Rutherford Garrettson
______________________________
Born Anglican, Freeborn Garrettson, became a prominate American clergyman in the early Methodist movement. At the time of his conversion to Methodism (1775), he freed his slaves and began his journeys as a preacher where he travelled extensively in several of the states, and in 1784 went as a missionary to Nova Scotia. In 1788 he began his labors in the state of New York after being appointed by Bishop Francis Asbury. In 1791 he married Miss Livingston of Rhinebeck, and confined his labors mainly to New York, where he was eminently successful. He was a very popular preacher and key figure in the early Methodist movement. At the request of John Wesley, he wrote The Experience and Travels of Mr. Freeborn Garrettson (1791).
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"In 1788, Rev. Garrettson was appointed presiding elder for the district north of New York, then including all the circuits from New Rochelle to Lake Champlain. In 1793, he was married to Miss Livingston, daughter of Judge Livingston, of Clermont, in the manor of Livingston. In 1799, a mansion-house was erected on the bank of the Hudson, in Rhinebeck, where his family were settled during the remainder of his life. The following is a copy of the inscription on his monument, in the graveyard attached to the church represented in the engraving.
'Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Freeborn Garrettson, an itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He commenced his itinerant ministry in the year 1775. In this work he continued until his death, laboring with great diligence and success in various parts of the United States and Nova Scotia. He died in peace in the City of New York, September 27, 1827, in the 79th year of his age, and 52nd of his ministry. --Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace." Psalm 36:37--'"
"On Friday, the 28th, a numerous circle of family connexions, friends, and neighbors, who seemed deeply affected with their loss, were addressed at the house of the deceased by Rev. Thomas Burch. Afterwards the procession, which was long and solemn, slowly moved to the buring ground at Rhinebeck Flats, a distance of about two miles, where the funeral service was performed by the writer, and the corpse was deposited in the earth, to sleep till 'the resurrection of the just and the unjust.'"
Source: The Life of Freeborn Garrettson by Nathan Bangs
Father: John Garrettson
Mother: Sarah Hanson
Marriage: Catherine Livingston
Married: 30 JUN 1793
in Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co., New York
Children:
Mary Rutherford Garrettson
______________________________
Born Anglican, Freeborn Garrettson, became a prominate American clergyman in the early Methodist movement. At the time of his conversion to Methodism (1775), he freed his slaves and began his journeys as a preacher where he travelled extensively in several of the states, and in 1784 went as a missionary to Nova Scotia. In 1788 he began his labors in the state of New York after being appointed by Bishop Francis Asbury. In 1791 he married Miss Livingston of Rhinebeck, and confined his labors mainly to New York, where he was eminently successful. He was a very popular preacher and key figure in the early Methodist movement. At the request of John Wesley, he wrote The Experience and Travels of Mr. Freeborn Garrettson (1791).
_____________________________
"In 1788, Rev. Garrettson was appointed presiding elder for the district north of New York, then including all the circuits from New Rochelle to Lake Champlain. In 1793, he was married to Miss Livingston, daughter of Judge Livingston, of Clermont, in the manor of Livingston. In 1799, a mansion-house was erected on the bank of the Hudson, in Rhinebeck, where his family were settled during the remainder of his life. The following is a copy of the inscription on his monument, in the graveyard attached to the church represented in the engraving.
'Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Freeborn Garrettson, an itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He commenced his itinerant ministry in the year 1775. In this work he continued until his death, laboring with great diligence and success in various parts of the United States and Nova Scotia. He died in peace in the City of New York, September 27, 1827, in the 79th year of his age, and 52nd of his ministry. --Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace." Psalm 36:37--'"
"On Friday, the 28th, a numerous circle of family connexions, friends, and neighbors, who seemed deeply affected with their loss, were addressed at the house of the deceased by Rev. Thomas Burch. Afterwards the procession, which was long and solemn, slowly moved to the buring ground at Rhinebeck Flats, a distance of about two miles, where the funeral service was performed by the writer, and the corpse was deposited in the earth, to sleep till 'the resurrection of the just and the unjust.'"
Source: The Life of Freeborn Garrettson by Nathan Bangs
Mother: Sarah Hanson
Marriage: Catherine Livingston
Married: 30 JUN 1793
in Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co., New York
Children:
Mary Rutherford Garrettson
______________________________
Born Anglican, Freeborn Garrettson, became a prominate American clergyman in the early Methodist movement. At the time of his conversion to Methodism (1775), he freed his slaves and began his journeys as a preacher where he travelled extensively in several of the states, and in 1784 went as a missionary to Nova Scotia. In 1788 he began his labors in the state of New York after being appointed by Bishop Francis Asbury. In 1791 he married Miss Livingston of Rhinebeck, and confined his labors mainly to New York, where he was eminently successful. He was a very popular preacher and key figure in the early Methodist movement. At the request of John Wesley, he wrote The Experience and Travels of Mr. Freeborn Garrettson (1791).
_____________________________
"In 1788, Rev. Garrettson was appointed presiding elder for the district north of New York, then including all the circuits from New Rochelle to Lake Champlain. In 1793, he was married to Miss Livingston, daughter of Judge Livingston, of Clermont, in the manor of Livingston. In 1799, a mansion-house was erected on the bank of the Hudson, in Rhinebeck, where his family were settled during the remainder of his life. The following is a copy of the inscription on his monument, in the graveyard attached to the church represented in the engraving.
'Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Freeborn Garrettson, an itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He commenced his itinerant ministry in the year 1775. In this work he continued until his death, laboring with great diligence and success in various parts of the United States and Nova Scotia. He died in peace in the City of New York, September 27, 1827, in the 79th year of his age, and 52nd of his ministry. --Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace." Psalm 36:37--'"
"On Friday, the 28th, a numerous circle of family connexions, friends, and neighbors, who seemed deeply affected with their loss, were addressed at the house of the deceased by Rev. Thomas Burch. Afterwards the procession, which was long and solemn, slowly moved to the buring ground at Rhinebeck Flats, a distance of about two miles, where the funeral service was performed by the writer, and the corpse was deposited in the earth, to sleep till 'the resurrection of the just and the unjust.'"
Source: The Life of Freeborn Garrettson by Nathan Bangs
Inscription
"Sacred to the memory of the Reverend Freeborn Garrettson, an Itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. He commenced his itinerant ministery In the year 1775. In this work he continued until his death, laboring with great dilligence and success In various parts of the United States and of Nova Scotia. He died in peace in the city of New York, September 26, 1827 in the 76 year of his age and the 62nd of his ministry. 'Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace.' Psalms 37, 37 etc. etc."
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