Joseph Harrison

Joseph Harrison (1749-1821) of Oldham pastored churches between 1775 and 1789 in Essex and Cambridgeshire. He was ordained as an Independent minister at Wenden on 30 May 1775 (Church Book: St. Andrew’s Street 57). In 1782 he became pastor of a Dissenting congregation at Foulmire, Cambridgshire, but some problems in his ministry led to his forming a Baptist meeting at Harston. In 1789, however, he left for Yorkshire.  See “Statistical View of Dissenters in England and Wales,” The London Christian Instructor, or Congregational Magazine, vol. 2 (1819), 631; W. E. Blomfield, “Yorkshire Baptist Churches in the 17th and 18th Centuries,” in C. E. Shipley, ed., The Baptists of Yorkshire: Being the Centenary Memorial Volume of the Yorkshire Baptist Association (Bradford and London: [n.d.], 1912), 103.