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Joseph Atwood was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Atwood was born in the United States in the 1780s.[1]
Atwood was accepted on trial as a circuit rider in 1822 by the Genesee circuit.[2] In 1823, he was assigned to the Smith's Creek circuit, where he rode alongside Samuel Belton.[1] The pair oversaw an increase in church membership of 31.[3]
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[edit]- Carroll, John (1869). 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. II. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office.