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George Washington Densmore was a Methodist circuit rider.
Densmore was accepted on trial as a circuit rider at the 1809 New York Conference. That year he was assigned to the Caygua Circuit with Elijah Batchelor. In 1810, he was assigned to the Ontario Circuit in New York.[1] In 1811, he was ordained a deacon, and sent to the Ancaster and Long Point Circuit in Upper Canada.[2] He was moved in 1812 to the Detroit Circuit.[3] On account of the War of 1812, he was unable to travel there, and his activities during this period are uncertain. He reported to the 1813 Genesee Conference, and was assigned to the Broom Circuit in the Oneida District, where he worked under Elder Case.[4] This was followed by appointments to the Wyoming, Lebanon, Manlius, Chenango, Homer, Marcellus, Oswego and Fabius Circuits. In 1836, after 26 years of circuit riding, he was located.[5]
- ^ Carroll, volume I, page 254
- ^ Carroll, John (1867). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. I. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office. p. 253.
- ^ Carroll, volume I, page 259
- ^ Carroll, volume I, page 268
- ^ Carroll, volume I, page 270