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BOOTH, Rev. James

The Rev. James Booth (1781-1854) was born in Yorkshire and came to Canada as a British Wesleyan missionary in 1816. He served for most of his career in Lower Canada, but was twice stationed at Kingston, and once at Peterborough.

Rev. John CARROLL in 1854 writes: " ...will be to reproduce the very short obituary of him which appeared in the British Minutes for the year of which we write, he having always held relations to the English Conference:- "James BOOTH, who entered upon the mission work in the year 1816, and prosecuted it diligently and faithfully, until growing infirmities compelled him to retire from active service. In a letter to the Missionary Committee, written a short time before his decease, he expresses himself thus; "I now only live a day at once; and I am striving, with all my powers, to be ready when the Lord shall call me. Thank the Lord, my soul is happy in a sence of my acceptance with God, and a lively hope of a safe arrival at my heavenly home. Bless the Lord, O my soul, for all His mercies to me! Truly the Lord is my God, and I will praise Him." He died at Kingston, Canada, Jauary 22nd, 1854, in the seventy-third year of his age."

Charges: 1854 in Kingston, ordained 1816, 1819 Kingston, 1819 preached in York, 1845 Norfolk St. Guelph, 1850 Peterborough, 1853 Kingston

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