Samuel Wilson

Samuel Wilson (1702-1750) was a Strict and Particular Baptist preacher. In 1724, he was appointed pastor of the church meeting at Old Gravel Lane, Wapping, a position he held for twenty-six years. This was the same church organized in 1633, under the pastoral care of John Spilsbury.

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    The Life And Death Of Samuel Wilson

    J. A. Jones, “Bunhill Memorials: Sacred Reminiscences Of Three Hundred Ministers And Other Persons Of Note, Who Are Buried In Bunhill Fields, Of Every Denomination” (1849): [1] Samuel Wilson, Baptist.—Mr. Samuel Wilson was born about the year 1702; he was descended from godly Dissenting ministers, both by his father’s and mother’s side. Mr. Ebenezer Wilson, pastor of the Church in Walbrook, was his father; and Mr. John Wilson, an eminent minister at Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, was his grandfather. He received his first serious impressions under the preaching of the Rev. Daniel Wilson, an eminent Presbyterian minister of Monk-well Street. He was baptized by Mr. Edward Wallin, and joined the Church at Maze Pond, while he was pursuing his academical studies, under Dr. Ward at Gresham…