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Samuel Wesley, Rev. (b. Dec 17, 1662, d. Jun 16, 1777)

Samuel Wesley, Rev. (son of John (Westley) Wesley and Unknown White, Miss) was born Dec 17, 1662 in Winterborn, Whitchurch, England, and died Jun 16, 1777 in Epworth. He married Susanna Annesley on Dec 12, 1688, daughter of Samuel Annesley and Mary White.

Notes for Samuel Wesley, Rev.:
Samuel, the son of John Wesley, was baptized Dec 17, 1662 at Winterbourne Whitchurch. He received his education at the Dorchester Free School, where he remained until he was fifteen years of age. His widowed mother being at this time very poor, he was sent through the kindness of Dissenting friends, to an academy at Stepney, in the hope that he would enter the Dissenting Ministry.

Encouraged by the offer of an exhibition of 10 pounds, he decided to go to Oxford. Entering himself as a servitor of Exeter College, he supported himself for five years, took his degree, and moved to London, where he was ordained deacon on August 7, 1688.

Samuel obtained a curacy, with an income of 28 pounds, and afterwards a chaplaincy on board a man--of-war. He then obtained another curacy, and soon after married Susanna the daughter of Dr. Annesley, a leading Nonconformist divine.

In 1691, he was appointed to the parish of South Ormesby, with an income of 50 pounds and a house. Here he spent nearly six of the best years of his life, and wrote some of his most able works. Five of his children were born here. It was about 1696 he moved with his wife and family to Epworth.

"Susanna Wesley, Servant of God" by Sandy Dengler states on page 36 that Samuel Wesley changed his name from Westley to Wesley. In the book "Susanna, Mother of the Wesleys" by Rebecca Lamar Harmon states on page 28 that Samuel Wesley was enrolled at Oxford as Samuel Westley.

From: "The Book of Dreams and Ghosts", Chapter 10 (1897) by Andrew Lang:

No ghost story is more celebrated than that of Old Jeffrey, the spirit so named by Emily Wesley, which disturbed the Rectory at Epworth, chiefly in the Dec of 1716 and the spring of 1717. Yet the vagueness of the human mind has led may people, especially journalists, to suppose that the haunted house was that, not of Samuel Wesley, but of his son John Wesley, the founder of the Wesleyan Methodist.

More About Samuel Wesley, Rev.:
Burial: Unknown, Bunhill Fields, London, England.

More About Samuel Wesley, Rev. and Susanna Annesley:
Marriage: Dec 12, 1688

Children of Samuel Wesley, Rev. and Susanna Annesley are:

Samuel Wesley, b. Feb 10, 1689/90, London, England, d. Nov 06, 1739.
Emilia Wesley, b. Jan 1691/92, London, Middlesex, England, d. 1771.
Annesly Wesley, b. 1694, South Ormsby, d. Jan 31, 1694/95.
Jedediah Wesley, b. 1694, South Ormsby, d. Jan 1694/95.
Susanna Wesley, b. 1695, South Ormsby, d. Dec 07, 1764.
+Mary "Molley" Wesley, b. 1696, London, Middlesex, England, d. Nov 1734, Wrotte, England.
Mehetabel "Hetty" Wesley, b. 1697, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, d. Mar 21, 1749/50, London, England.
Infant 1 Wesley, b. 1698, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, d. 1698.
Infant 2 Wesley, b. 1698, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, d. 1698.
John Wesley, b. Mar 18, 1698/99, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, d. 1699.
Benjamin Wesley, b. 1700, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, d. 1700, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England.
Infant 3 Wesley, b. May 17, 1701, d. 1701.
Infant 4 Wesley, b. May 17, 1701, d. 1701.
Ann (Nancy) Wesley, b. 1702, London, England, d. date unknown.
John Benjamin Wesley, b. Jun 17, 1703, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, d. Mar 1791, London, England.
Unknown Wesley, b. May 08, 1705, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, d. May 30, 1805, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England.
Martha "Patty" Wesley, b. May 08, 1706, London, England, d. Jul 19, 1791, London, England.
Charles Wesley, b. Dec 18, 1707, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, d. Mar 29, 1788, Marylebone, London.
Kezia "Kessy" Wesley, b. Mar 1708/09, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, d. Mar 09, 1740/41, London, England.