Haworth, Yorkshire, Baptists

Haworth, Yorkshire, Baptists – The Haworth church was formed by James Hartley in 1752, and he remained there until his death in 1780 (Shipley 102).  William Greenwood and J. Horsfall (see Foster letters) were his chief supporters there.  Hartley was succeeded by Isaac Slee, who had once been an Anglican clergyman and whose only publication was a pamphlet titled The keeping of the commandments of Zion’s King the only evidence of love to Him (c. 1780), which gave his reasons for leaving the Established Church (102).  He was succeeded in 1785 by Miles Oddy, who remained for the next 45 years.  See 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), 53-118.