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Thomas Webb | |
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| Born | 1724  |
| Died | 20 December 1796 (aged 71–72) |
| Occupation | Evangelist,soldier |
Thomas Webb (bornEngland, 1724; diedBristol, 20 December 1796) was aMethodist pioneer.
Webb was a British officer, served in the royal American army, and was wounded atLouisburg andQuebec. He was converted to Methodism in 1765 by the preaching ofJohn Wesley at Bristol, England, united with a Methodist society, was licensed to preach, and gave freely of his means to found societies, attending conferences, and preaching frequently with great fervor.
Being ordered again to theUnited States, he was stationed at first atAlbany, New York, as barrack master, and there conducted religious services in his house. WhenBarbara Heck established a society inNew York City, he went thither, making his first appearance in the congregation about February 1767. He preached in alternation withPhilip Embury, always wearing his regimental uniform, with his sword on the pulpit before him. He was the most active worker and the largest contributor for the erection of a meeting house.
On being placed on the retired list, with the rank of captain, he thenceforth travelled much as a missionary, preaching inTrenton,Burlington, and other New Jersey towns, where he founded societies, and holding regular services inJamaica, New York, which was his home. He began to visitPhiladelphia as early as 1767, and there founded the first Methodist society, to which he ministered until the arrival of Wesley's itinerants in 1769. In that year he introduced Methodism intoDelaware, preaching inNewcastle andWilmington, and later he labored inBaltimore, Maryland.
In 1772 he went to England, preached inDublin,London, and other places, made appeals for missionaries and pecuniary aid at the conference inLeeds and elsewhere, and returned in the following year with two of the preachers that were sent in response to his solicitations. Repeating his visit, he gained other recruits for the itinerancy. Returning to England at the beginning of the Revolution, he spent the remainder of his life at Bristol, preaching there and in the neighbourhood, visiting Winchester during the war, where he preached to the French prisoners in their own language, and addressing large congregations of soldiers and sailors at Portsmouth.
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