George S. Brown (July 25, 1801 – April 10, 1886) was the first African American pastor in the Troy Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He spent his twenties drinking, carousing, and earning a living as a traveling musician before converting to Baptism and then to the Methodist Episcopal Church in the late 1820s in Kingsbury, New York.
Brown was assigned to the Berkshire circuit and in late 1854 arrived in Wolcott, Vermont, to serve as a pastor for the small Methodist community there.
Minutes recorded that Brown oversaw construction and appointed six white men to serve as trustees for the new building.
He served informally as Wolcott's preacher-in-charge until the end of 1857 and preached in nearby towns, including Morristown and Morrisville.
[2][4] In 1863, Brown traveled to Jackson, Michigan, to build a stone wall on Dwight Merriman's farm, now the Ella Sharp Museum.
His first wife, Nancy Wilson, daughter of one of the other Black preachers in Liberia, died seven months after their March 1839 marriage.