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Caleb Morris was a Methodist circuit rider.

Morris was received on trial in 1800, and assigned to the Herkimer Circuit, where he served as the assistant to Anthony Turk. The next year he was assigned to the Ottawa Circuit with John Robinson, his only forray into Canada. In 1802, he rode the Greenwich and Warren Circuit, and in 1803 he rode the Litchfield Circuit. He was ordained an Elder in 1804, and stationed at Cape May in the Philidelphia Conference. In 1805, he served as assistant to James Herron on the Dutch Creek Circuit. He spent 1807 as Presiding Elder on the St. Martins Circuit, and was located in 1808.[1]

  1. ^ 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. 67.