Colvius, Nicholas son of the foregoing, was born in 1634, became co-pastor at Dort in 1655, afterwards pastor at Amsterdam, and died in 1717. Colwell, Charles, an English Methodist preacher, was a native of Cornwall. He entered the English Wesleyan ministry in 1810, became a sunpernumerary at Falmouth in 1837, removed to Helstone, Cornwall, in 1838, and died June 20, 1860, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1860.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More