EV. WILLIAM DAMERON was born about the year 1760, and died about 1820, at an advanced age. He entered the ministry in 1783, more than a half dozen years after James O'Kelly. The Methodist Conference by which he was received, assembled on May 6, 1783, at Ellis's meeting house in Virginia, and by adjournment it met in Baltimore on the 27th of the same month. He was assigned to Roanoke River circuit in North Carolina. he was at the Christmas Conference in Baltimore in [50] 1784, at which was adopted the Articles, Rules and Discipline substantially as held by the Methodists this day. Some modifications have however been made in the government. In 1788 he located, but after the withdrawal of James O'Kelly in 1792, he came united in work with those who joined in the new movement. He was associated with Adam Cloud, James Haw, Micajah Debruler, and Rice Haggard.

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