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Society, it was said: "He was kind and generous, always ready and willing to aid in all our good undertakings. I well remember his kindly, beaming face, and broad shoulders, as he delivered his oral sermons in the little school-house to his attentive congregation."
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III. Nathan Bangs, b. at Stratford, Conn., 2 May 1778; a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church; married, 23 April 1806, at Edwardsburgh, Upper Canada, Mary Bolton, born at Terrebonne, L. C., 23 Dec. 1787, dau. of Henry and Margaret (Lateur) Bolton, of Edwardsburgh.1 He went to Upper Canada, in May 1799, when twenty-one years old; taught school and practised surveying for two years; joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1800, and was licensed to preach, in Aug. 1801. He travelled on the Niagara Circuit till 1 Dec. 1801, and on Long Point Circuit till June 1802, when he joined the New York Annual Conference on trial, and was assigned the Bay of Quinte and Home District, which he travelled till June 1804. He then attended the meeting of the Annual Conference, at New York, where he was received into full communion, was ordained a deacon, and, two days later (instead of two years, the usual time), was ordained an elder, and assigned the River Thames District, which seems to have been almost boundless, including part of Michigan and Ohio. There he travelled till winter compelled him to leave, and finish the year among his old friends in the Niagara District In 1805 he was assigned the Oswegatchie Circuit, with Sylvanus Keeler; in 1801, Quebec; in 1807, Niagara; and he had gone about ten miles on his way, when the presiding elder turned him back to labor in Montreal, for the year. In 1808, he returned to New York, and was appointed to the Delaware Circuit, where his parents were then living; in 1809, to Albany, N. Y. and in 1810, to New York City. The year 1812 found him without a charge, as the war prevented his intended return to Canada, whither he had been assigned as pastor and presiding elder in Montreal. He dwelt, a part of the year, in Troy, N. Y. and the rest in Bedford, N. Y.; in 1813, was presiding elder of Rhinebeck District; and, in 1817, went to New York City. There he served as pastor of the Duane Street Church, from 1817 till 1819; presiding elder of New York District, till 1820; hook agent, till 1828; editor of The Christian Advocate and Journal, till 1832; general editor of books, till 1836; resident corresponding secretary of the Missionary Society, till 1841; president of Wesleyan University, till Sept. 1842; pastor of the Second Street Church, New York, till i 844; of the Greene Street Church, till 1846; of the Sands Street Church, Brooklyn, till 1848; presiding elder of New York East District, till 1852; when, after having taken fifty consecutive annual
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1 Henry Bolton, a millwright born at Blackstone Hedge, nine miles from Leeds, in Yorkshire, Eng., settled at Quebec, L. C., in 1777; and died, 17 Jan. 1822, aged about 80 years. His wife, Margaret Lateur, of French parentage, was born at Terrebonne, L. C.; and died, 17 Dec 1845, aged 80 years.
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