Allen, Gabriel Leonard2025-10-242025-10-242021-042572-0651https://hdl.handle.net/2144/51625[John Morgan was the first Wesleyan Methodist Missionary to set foot in The Gambia valley. He was commissioned a reverend minister of the Methodist Church in 1820 and soon thereafter sent out with the Reverend John Baker59 by the Committee of the General Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (GWMMS) of London to establish a new station in The Gambia. According to his autobiography, Morgan wrote that “On the (3 rd ) day of February, 1821, (I) landed in the Island of St. Mary….” Baker arrived about a month later in a medically unfit and emaciated state.]en-USCopyright 2021 Dictionary of African Christian Biography. All rights reserved. Reproductions, with appropriate citation and credit, may be made for noncommercial educational purposes. Revision or editing of this content, the creation of derivative works, posting on websites containing advertising, and all other commercial uses require the express written consent of the Journal of African Christian Biography.Article62