Circuit Riding and Ordained Ministry
Though only licensed as an Exhorter, in 1799 Elijah Hedding supplied the place of Lorenzo Dow, who had left his circuit. In 1801 the Rev. Hedding was admitted on probation in the Newark Annual Conference. He was ordained, both Deacon and Elder, by Bishop Richard Whatcoat.
The Rev. Mr. Hedding served a variety of appointments thereafter, as a pioneer Circuit Preacher or a city Pastor. In 1807 he was appointed Presiding Elder of the New Hampshire district. In 1811 he was stationed in Boston. In 1817 he was again Presiding Elder, this time on the Portland district. He was subsequently appointed to Lynn Common, to Boston, and then the Boston district. "Father Taylor," the famous sailor preacher, was converted under Hedding at the Bromfield Street M.E. Church in Boston.
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