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Samuel Norris was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

He was accepted on trial as a circuit rider in 1818, and assigned to the Landaff circuit in New Hampshire.

He was assigned to the St. Francis circuit in 1819. This was followed by assignment to the Danville circuit in 1820, Barrie in 1821, Malden in 1822, Weymouth in 1823 and 1824, and Newport in 1825 and 1826. In 1829, he was part of the newly formed New Hampshire and Vermont conference. There he laboured on Rochester in 1829 and 1830, Salem in 1831 and 1832, Great Falls in 1833, and Salisbury in 1834 and 1836.

In 1836 he was sent on a mission, as an agent of the South Newmarket Methodist Society. Returing in 1839, he rode the Pembroke circuit, and the London circuit in 1840. He retired from circuit riding thereafter.