Career
He entered his first ministerial charge on 1 May 1709 at Garsdale, Yorkshire, which he quit at the end of 1711 to become minister of two small congregations at Newton-in-Bowland and Hesketh Lane, near Chipping, in a poor and sparsely inhabited agricultural part of Lancashire. There he remained until 1738, when he removed to Holcombe, near Bury in the same county. In 1744 he was appointed to the pastorate of the tabernacle, Stockport, Cheshire, and remained there until his death on 5 November 1769.
He was twice married: first, to Margaret Woodworth, who died in December 1715.
His second wife"s name is not known. He had eight children, of whom one, Henry, was a minister at Clitheroe, and died there on 2 April 1795.
