Jarratt, Devereux

Jarratt, Devereux

▪ American clergyman
born Jan. 17, 1733, Kent county, Va. [U.S.]
died Jan. 29, 1801, Dinwiddie county, Va., U.S.

      American Anglican clergyman and preacher who emulated the Methodism of John Wesley and initiated a religious revival throughout North Carolina and southern Virginia.

      Jarratt received little formal education but was fond of reading and eventually became a tutor. In 1762 he went to England, where he was ordained as both a deacon and priest in the Anglican church. Returning to Virginia in 1763, he was installed in a parish in Virginia, and he eventually extended his ministry over many counties in Virginia and North Carolina. When the first Methodist preachers appeared, Jarratt was one of the few Anglican clergymen who gave them full cooperation, even administering the sacraments to their new converts. But when the American Methodists separated from the Anglicans in 1784 and formed the Methodist Episcopal Church, Jarratt became alienated from them. He also opposed the Methodists' strict condemnation of slavery.

      Jarratt's chronicle of the American Methodist revival is the primary account of that development; he sent his account to John Wesley, and it was publicized in the Journal (1771–1816) of Francis Asbury, the first Methodist bishop in North America.

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