Newton reported to Lord Dartmouth, Olney’s Lord of the Manor and Secretary of State for the American Colonies, that between 150 and 200 people turned out at five o’clock in the morning.

John Newton: Slave trader turned evangelical preacher and abolitionist After a life on the seas, he was ordained in 1764 and appointed a curate in Olney, where he collaborated with poet William ...

John Newton dies. 1811. ... He quit, was ordained into the Anglican ministry, and in 1764 took a parish in Olney in Buckinghamshire. Three years after Newton arrived, ...

1725 Newton is born in London to John & Elizabeth Newton. 1732 Elizabeth Newton dies. 1744 Newton is impressed on board H.M.S. Harwich. 1745 Newton. ... Newton accepts curacy at Olney.

On January 1, 1773, in Olney, England, The Rev. John Newton, a slave trader-turned-abolitionist, gave a sermon about personal redemption. His words would become one of the best-known hymns in the ...

John Newton's hymn "Amazing Grace" was published in the 1779 collection Olney Hymns. Newton, a former slave trader, became a pastor and abolitionist.

John Newton: Slave trader turned evangelical preacher and abolitionist After a life on the seas, he was ordained in 1764 and appointed a curate in Olney, where he collaborated with poet William ...