Jonathan Forrest (1754 - 1843)

Born 20 Feb 1754 in Anne Arundel, Maryland

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 12 Oct 1843 at age 89 in New Windsor, Carroll, Maryland, United States

Biography

Jonathon Forrest (1754-1813), a brother of Jacob, was a Pioneer Minister and ONE of the FOUNDERS of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN MARYLAND. Received his Certificate of Ordination in 1787. Was a circuit-rider, traveled until 1793 and was supernumerary until 1805. Was imprisoned at one time for his views.^[1]

Name

Name: Jonathan /Forrest/

Given Name: Jonathan

Surname: Forrest

Name Prefix: Rev.^[2][3][4]

Jonathan Forrest was present at the organization of the Methodist Church and lived almost fifty-nine years thereafter to see its growth. Although he retired from the itinerancy in 1805, he continued to be actively useful as a local preacher. In 1828 he favored the Methodist Protestant movement and withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal Church. He continued a living witness for it until his death

Several of the preachers in the preceeding list were imprisoned, and otherwise persecuted during the revolutionary war; especially Freeborn Garrettson and Jonathan Forrest. The latter of these is still alive, though old and Feeble. He lives in Frederick county, Maryland.^[5]

In the city of Annapolis, the capital of the State, Jonathan Forrest and William Wren, and I believe tow or three others, were committed to jail. Three of the men who were principally concerned in taking up and committing ren afterwards became Methodists, among whom was one of the magistrates who signed the mittimus for his commitment. I knew them well, and shall never forget the serious and solemn time when Wren and myself, with the man who arrested him, dined at the magistrate's house after they joined the Methodists.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

Jonathan Forrest, a native of Frederick county, Maryland, had his share of suffering and persecution, and was at one time imprisoned. He traveled until 1793, was supernumerary until 1805, and died at the age of eighty "in hope of the crown of righteousness.^[11]

Inheritance

Inherited Property: Forrest Range, , Anne Arundel, Maryland

Inherited Property: Poulson's Reserve, Sam's Creek, Carroll, Maryland

Occupation

Occupation: 1763, Converted to Methodist about the time the church had its beginnings in Sam's Creek, Carroll, Maryland

Occupation: 1778, He was persecuted as a Methodist circuit rider and jailed for his Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland

Occupation: 1787, He was ordained by Bishop Francis Ashbury of the Methodist Episcopal , , Maryland

Retirement

Retirement: He retired from active ministry in 1805.

Date: 1805

Death

Rev. Jonathan Forrest departed for his heavenly home June, 1842, in the ninety-first year of his age. He was an ex-itinerant of the old Church, of unblemished character and fair abilities, well known in Maryland, and who sided with Reform from the beginning as a retired minister, and did what he could in his old age to further it.^[12]

Burial

Burial:

Place: Pipe Creek 'Brick" Methodist Cemetary, Carroll, Maryland

Sources

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• Source: S121 Abbreviation: History of Western Maryland: Being a History of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett Counties from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Including Biographical Sketches of Their Representative Men Title: History of Western Maryland: Being a History of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett Counties from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Including Biographical Sketches of Their Representative Men Author: John Thomas Scharf Publication: Name: Clearfield Company and Family Line Publications, Westminster, Maryland; 1995;; Note: Source Medium: Book Paranthetical: Y
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• Source: S653 Abbreviation: Trial of the Rev. Jacob Gruber, Minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the March Term, 1819, in the Frederick County Court, for a Misdemeanor: Minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the March Term, 1819, in the Frederick County Court, for Title: Trial of the Rev. Jacob Gruber, Minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the March Term, 1819, in the Frederick County Court, for a Misdemeanor: Minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the March Term, 1819, in the Frederick County Court, for a Misdemeanor Author: Jacob Gruber, David Martin, minister of the Gospel David Martin Publication: Name: David Martin, George Kolb; Date: 1819; Repository: #R24 Paranthetical: Y
• Repository: R24 Name: New York Public Library Address: New York Public Library Name: New York Public Library
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1. ↑ Originally prepared by Richard Forrest for D. Daniel Forrest on 9/30/99, revised 10/15/99. Unpublished.
2. ↑ Source: #S118
3. ↑ Source: #S121 Page: 513 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
4. ↑ Source: #S648 Page: 131 - 132
5. ↑ Source: #S649 Page: Volume XX. New Series, Vol. IX, 1838, page 224
6. ↑ Source: #S650 Page: 103
7. ↑ Source: #S635 Page: Volume 60, 1965, page 204 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
8. ↑ Source: #S651 Page: 114 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
9. ↑ Source: #S652 Page: 186 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
10. ↑ Source: #S653 Page: 49 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
11. ↑ Source: #S654 Page: 64
12. ↑ HISTORY OF METHODIST REFORM -- Vol. II, By Edward J. Drinkhouse, Eighteen Years Editor of "The Methodist Protestant" Synoptical of General Methodism, 1703 to 1898, With Special and Comprehensive Reference to Its Most Salient Exhibition in the History of The Methodist Protestant Church.