Moses "Daddy" Wilkinson or "Old Moses" (c. 1746/47 – ?) was an African-American slave and Wesleyan Methodist preacher in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.
Moses Wilkinson was a blind and lame slave from Nansemond County, Virginia; his master was Mills Wilkinson. After Dunmore's Proclamation promised slaves of American rebels their freedom if they would join the British forces fighting in the American Revolutionary War, Wilkinson led a band of runaway slaves to freedom in 1776. In New York, the self-appointed, illiterate, fiery Wesleyan Methodist preacher gathered together a congregation.
When the British were defeated in 1783, Wilkinson and other Black Loyalists were transported aboard L'Abondance to Halifax; he is listed in the Book of Negroes. A Black Loyalist settlement was established in Birchtown, Nova Scotia. On 26 October 1791, 350 people gathered in Wilkinson's church to hear John Clarkson explain the Sierra Leone Company's plans to reestablish a colony in what is now Sierra Leone, the previous 1787 attempt having failed miserably. Displeased with a climate colder than they were used to and a hostile reception from the resident whites, Wilkinson, members of his Methodist congregation, and those of other denominations emigrated; 1196 Nova Scotian Settlers set sail from Halifax on 15 January 1792.
The ships made landfall on 9 March. Wilkinson established the first Methodist church in Settler Town. The Sierra Leone Company clashed with the independent-minded Christian denominations, and matters came to a head with a failed rebellion led by Methodists in 1800. Two Methodists were executed, a number of others, mostly Methodist, were exiled elsewhere in Africa, and Wilkinson's brand of Methodism lost favour.