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James Herron was a Methodist circuit rider.

Herron was received on trial in 1799, and assigned to the Chester and Strasbourgh Circuit in the Philidelphia District. He was assigned to the Oswegotchie Circuit in 1800, as the assistant to Joseph Jewell. Jewell suffered some malady of his leg, and in 1801 was sent to the Dorchester Circuit, where the travel would be less stressful. He rode other circuits within the Delaware and Eastern Shore District through 1805. When the Philidelphia Conference was organized in 1805, Herron was transferred to it, but generally rode the same area he had previously, riding circuits in Newburgh, New Jersey Tioga, Annamessex, Duck Creek, Accomack, Dorchester, Somersett, Annamessex, Milford and Accomack, in order. He was appointed Presiding Elder of the Susquehanna District in 1808. He was located in 1814, likely having married about this time.^[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.

[CarrollV1P67-1] 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.

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