Thomas, Samuel (1)

a Methodist Episcopal minister, became a member of the society, in the early period of Methodism, in the State of New Jersey. He was an acceptable local preacher for a number of years, entered the itinerancy in 1796, and filled the following stations: In 1796-97, Flanders Circuit; 1798, Elizabethtown Circuit; 1799, Freehold; 1800-1, Newburg; 1802, Bethel; 1803, Elizabethtown; 1804-5, Freehold; 1806, supernumerary in Brooklyn; 1807, in New York; 1808, superannuated, in which relation he continued until he died, in 1812. Mr. Thomas was a man of much prayer and diligence in searching the Scriptures, strongly attached to the doctrines and discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and ever considered as a strict disciplinarian. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1, 208; Stevens, Hist. of M.E. Church, 4:281.