Career
He was not very successful in his ministry, which was disturbed by controversy, especially with some Scottish members, who were anxious to import the fashion of "ruling elders," and who eventually seceded and erected in Mosley Street what was then the largest dissenting chapel in Lancashire (according to Robert Halley). He resigned his position in 1794 and left the neighbourhood. He is buried in Bunhill Fields, where his gravestone states that he "died 13 January
1803, aged 67 years.
Having been a preacher of the gospel forty-two years.".
