William Black (November 10, 1760 – September 8, 1834) was a Yorkshireman and founder of the Methodist congregation in colonial Nova Scotia.

Black's daughter married the merchant and politician John Alexander Barry, who was the son of Robert Barry, a prominent businessman and Methodist. His son, Martin Gay Black, became a prominent businessman and also furthered the Methodist cause in Nova Scotia.

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  Rev. William Black, Camp Hill Cemetery
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  Cemetery in Point de Bute, New Brunswick, near where the first Methodist church stood and where Black would have preached.

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• William Black made Canadian Methodism
• The John Rylands Library : Mr Wesley's Preachers : William Black
• History of Nova Scotia : William Black
• Biography by John Maclean
• Memoir 1839