MERRITT, Timothy, clergyman, born in Barkhamsted, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in October, 1775; died in Lynn, Massachusetts, 2 May, 1845. He began preaching in 1794, and served as a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church in various parts of New England. While at Malden, Massachusetts, in 1831, ha was an editor of "Zion's Herald," published in Boston, and from 1832 till 1835 he resided in New York city as assistant editor of " The Christian Advocate and Journal." While in Boston he established a monthly entitled "A Guide to Christian Perfection." Mr. Merritt was an able writer, an eloquent preacher, an accomplished debater, and occupied a high place among the Methodist ministers of his time. He atoned for early deficiencies by subsequent vigorous intellectual discipline. He published "Christian Manual" (New York, 1824); " Memoir of Miss S. H. Bunting" (1833); "Convert's Guide and Preacher's Assistant" (1841) ; "Discussion against Universal Salvation ";" On the Validity and Sufficiency of Infant Baptism "; and "Lectures and Discourses on Universal Salvation," with Reverend Wilbur Fiske, D. D.