Samuel Stennett

[1] He was born in Exeter, but at the age of 10 his family moved to London, where his father served as the minister of the Baptist church in Little Wild Street.

Although friend and supporter to the reigning monarch, George III, Stennett refused political opportunities to devote himself to ministry.

Samuel continued this tradition, although with less passionate language than had marked his grandfather's Puritan-influenced notions of Christian experience.

More than any other of Samuel Stennett's hymns, "On Jordan's Stormy Banks", which was published in Rippon's Selection under the title "Promised Land," found enormous popularity especially amongst 19th-century American Methodists.

It was sung in camp meetings and brush arbors, and also found its way into the 1835 Southern Harmony and is part of the American shape note tradition.