MINUTES

OF THE

ANNUAL CONFERENCES

OF THE

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, IN

FOR THE YEARS

1773-1 828.

VOLUME I.

NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY T. MASON AND G. LANE, FOR THE METHODIST EPI8COPAL CHURCH, AT THE CONFERENCE OFFICE, 200 MULBERRY-STREEt.

J. Collord, Printer.

1840. 448 Minutes for 1825.

Lyons Creek, Isaac B. Smith. Bav Qdintik Dist. Wm. Case, P. EMer. Ancaster, David Culp. Smith's Creek, David Breckenridge. Long Point, D. Shepardson,T. Sovereign. Belville, Samuel Belton. Westminster, George Ferguson. Hallowell, Franklin Metcalf, Jacob Pool. Thames, Jos. Jackson, Joseph Messmore. Bay Quintie, John Ryerson, Wm. Slater. St. Clair, William Griffes. Augusta, Wyatt Chamberlin, P. Smith. London, Edmund Stoney. Perth, Ezra Healey. Dumfries, Robert Corson. Rideau, David Wright. Young-street and York, Wm. H. Williams, Cornwall, Solomon Waldron. Joseph Atwood. Attawa, George Bissell. New Settlements, Rowland Heyland. _, „., , , ... . 15' and our next Grand River mission, Alvin Torry. Quest- ™heTe befenheldfall? Henry Ryan, missionary to ChippeWay Conference and Grand River Falls, and the newdesti- September 14, 1825, at Fifty Mile Creek, tute settlements in those parts. township of Saltfleet, Upper Canada. GENERAL RECAPITULATION. Whites. Coloured. Indians. Total. Ohio Conference 30348 193 36541 Kentucky Conference 21552 3139 24691 Missouri Conference 11353 420 11773 Conference 22527 2982 25509 Mississippi Conference - - • - - 7213 1796 9009 South Carolina Conference 24909 14736 39645 Virginia Conference 21134 6964 28098 Baltimore Conference 29137 9179 38316 Philadelphia Conference 27890 7920 35810 New- York Conference 26819 376 27195 New-England Conference 21398 227 21625 Genesee Conference 24075 86 24161 Canada Conference ...... 6072 22 56 6150

Total this year - 280427 48040 56 328523 Total last year 312540

Increase this year 159B3 Travelling preachers this...... year - - - . 1272 last year - - • 1226

Increase this year 46

MINUTES OF CONFERENCES FOR 1825.

BISHOPS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. WILLIAM M'KENDREE, ENOCH GEORGE, ROBERT R. ROBERTS, JOSHUA SOULE, ELIJAH HEDDING.

OHIO CONFERENCE. Quest. 1. Who are admitted on trial? Quest. 2. Who remain on trial? John Chandler, Arza Brown, Jacob James C. Taylor, Sylvester Dunham, Delay, Augustus Eddy, William- C. Hen- George Waddle, True Patee, John A. Clark, derson, Homer David Dutcher, An- Baughman, Robert Spencer, Job Wilson, drew F. Baxter, William Runnels, Joab Thomas Beacham, Elijah Field, James Ragan, Joseph S. Barris— 11. M'Intyre, Isaac Elsbury, Robert Hopkins, Minutes for 1825. 449

Alfred M. Lorain, Thomas Hewson, Solo Portland District. Whites. Col. mon Manear— 15. Whites. Col. Deer Creek 1022 Hudson 357 Chilicothe 194 Quest. 3. Who are admitted into full con Brunswick 399 Scioto 912 6 nection .' Black River 156 Strait Creek 673 Huron 405 Brush Creek 826 Billings O.PIympton, John Crawford, Al Wayne 425 Burlington 345 bert G. Richardson, Jno. Janes, Jas. Rowe, Canton 321 Letart 500 Aaron Wood, Orin Gillmore, Geo. Gatch, Mansfield 785 Salt Creek 367 Knox 595 Levi White, Nehemiah B. Griffith — 10. 5715 6 Quest. 4. Who are the ? 3443 Lebanon District. Lancaster District. Lebanon sta. 160 Those marked thus were ordained this year. (*) Fairfield 1115 Paint Creek 666 Whitefield Hughs, Richard BrandrifF, Hockhocking 335 London 595 George M. Mealey, John Walker, William Muskingum 775 Mad River 1409 10 Tipton, Henry S. Fernandes, William H. Zanesville cir.578 Piqua 1200 Zanesville Union 1080 Collins, Billings O. John Craw Plympton,* station 185 Milford 1183 ford,* Albert G. Richardson,* John Janes,* Granville 617 White Oak 1121 James Rowe,* Aaron Wood,* Orin Gil- Columbus 1043 Wilmington 777 more,* George Gatch,* Levi White,* N. Delaware 308 Athens 780 8191 B. Griffith*— 17. Miami District. Quest. 5. Who have been elected and or 5736 2 Cincinnati 750 Muskingum District. Miami 792 dained elders this year ? Steubenville 255 Hamilton and Charles Thorn, William Simmons, Jas. Cross Creek 949 Rossville 92 Collord, Jas. Jones, Dan'l Limerick, Henry West Wheel Oxford 807 Knapp, Zarah Coston, Nathan Walker — 8. ing 800 Greenville 487 Barnesville 1090 WhiteWater 878 Quest. 6. Who have located this year ? Munroe 540 Lawrenceburg717 Albert G. Richardson, Jas. Roe, Sam'l Duck Creek 509 Madison 895 Marietta 375 10 Connersville 404 West, John Graham, Thomas —5. M'Clary Tuscarawas 400 Detroit 242 Quest. 7. Who are the supernumerary Wyandot 4918 10 mission 200 ? preachers Scioto District. Thomas S. Hitt, Michael Ellis— 2. Pickaway 876 6244 52 Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated or BECAriTULATION. Whites. CoL worn-out preachers ? Members in society this year 38153 86* Whitefield William Hughs, Swayze, last year 36541 179 Benjamin Lawrence, Truman , Hen. Baker, Wm. Cunningham, Shadrach Increase this year 1912 93 Dec. Ruark, Moses Crume, John C. Brook — 9. Travelling preachers this year 110 Quest. 9. Who have been expelled from Quest. 14. Where are the preachers sta the connection this year ? tioned this William Westlake. year I Martin Ruter, book agent, Cincinnati. 10. Who have withdrawn the Quest. from Miami Dist. John Collins, P. . connection this ? year Cincinnati, Wm. H. P. None. Raper,John Durbin. Miami, John P. Taylor, Augustus Eddy. Quest. 11. Were all the preachers' charac Oxford, Daniel D. Davidson, John Baugh- ters examined? man. This was carefully done, by calling over White Oak, George W. Mealey, John their names before the Conference. Everhart. Milford, William Quest. 12. WJio have died this year ?* J. Thompson, Robert Spencer. Quest. 13. What numbers are in Society ? Union, Russel Bigelow, Burroughs West- Whites. Col. Ohio District. lake, T. Beacham. Hartford 322 Whites. Col. Deerfield 437 Piqua, Arthur W. Elliott, Richard Bran Erie 339 Beaver 574 drifF. Mercer 558 Newcastle 490 Greenville, Isaac Elsbury. Grand River 485 * A part of the coloured, through mistake, are Youngstown 701 3906 included among the whites in the Cincinnati * See at the end of Minutes for this year. edition. 29 450 Minutes for 1825.

Sandusky Dist. /. B. Finley, P. Elder, West Wheeling, John Waterman, William and superintendent of the Wyandot mis Knox. sion. Cross Creek, Archibald M'Elroy, George Belfountain, Levi White. Waddle. Mad River, James T. Wells, Geo. Gatch. Steubenville, William Stephens. London, Robert W. Finley. Tuscarawas, William Tipton. Delaware, Jacob Dixon. Duck Creek, Thomas R. Ruckle. Wyandot mis. ,Jas.B. Finley, JacobHooper. Monroe, Isaac Reynolds. Detroit, Elias Pattee, Isaac C. Hunter. Middle Island, Abraham Lippit. Pittsburg, Henry B. Bascom. Scioto Dist. Greenbury" R. Jones, P. Elder. Little Kenhawa, Samuel Brockunier. Straight Creek, Wm. Page, Wm. Runnels. Ohio Dist. Charles Elliott, P. Elder. Brush Creek, William Simmons, Alfred Newcastle, Henry Knapp, Joseph S. M. Lorain. Barris. Scioto, Andrew S. M' Clean, John Janes. Beaver, Samuel Adams, Robert Hopkins. Chilicothe, John F. Wright. Youngstown, John Summerville, Alfred Deer Creek, Jas.Collord, Nathan Walker. Brunson. Paint Creek, Andrew F. Baxter. Hartford, Thomas Carr. Pickaway, Zacariah Connel, Michael Deerfield, Ira Eddy, Billings O. Plympton. Ellis, sup. Hudson, Philip Green, William C. Hen Salt Creek, Jacob Delay. derson. Wilmington, John Sale. Canton, Dennis Goddard. Lancaster D;st. Jacob Young, P. Elder. Grand River, David Sharp, Sylvester Athens, Curtis Goddard, David Dutcher. Dunham. Hockhockine, James Gilruth. Erie, John P. Kent. Fairfield, Charles V/addle, Homer Clark. Mercer, Charles Thorn, Job Wilson. Cornelius Muskingum, Springer. Kenhawa Dist. John Brown, P. Elder. Zanesville station, James Quinn. Letart Falls, Francis Wilson. Zanesville circuit, Edward Ezra Taylor, Burlington, John Walker. Brown. Guyandotte, William H. Collins. Granville, Sam'l Hamilton, Zarah Coston. Big Kenhawa, James Smith. Columbus, Leroy Swormstedt, Joseph Charleston, John H. Power. Carper. Nicholas. John W. Kenney. Portland Dist. James M,Mahon, Logan, Henry S. Fernandes. P. Elder. Marietta, Dan'l Limmerick, John SteuHtrt. Knox, John Crawford. Henry B. Bascom, transferred to the Mansfield, Abner Goff, Jas. T. Donahoo. Pittsburg Conference, and stationed at Wayne, James Murray, Solomon Manear. Pittsburg. Huron, True Patee, James M'Intyre. Black River, James Taylor. Quest. 15. Where and when shall our Sandusky, Elijah H. Field. next Conference be held ? Brunswick, Orin Gilmore, Joab Ragan. Ohio Conference at Columbus, October West Wheeling Dist. William Lamdin, 12, 1825. P. Elder. Pittsburg Conference at Pittsburg, Barnesville,7fio. WMahon, Jno.Chandler. September 15, 1825.

KENTUCKY CONFERENCE.

Quest. 1. Who are admitted on trial ? vid Wright, Clement Clifton, Newton G. John St. Clair, Joseph Carter, William Berryman, George Richardson, Richard Artherton, Fountain Pitts, Benj. Ogden, Dungan, Thompson Holliman, Daniel John M. S. Smith, William Crane, Caleb Black, H. II. Kavanaugh, John S. Bar- Taylor, William Askins, John Watts, ger, Abram Long — 12. Thomas Reece, Nathaniel Parker, Geo. Quest. 3. Who are admitted into full W. Sheaves— 13. connection ? Quest. 2. Who remain on trial? Edwin Ray, James P. Milligan, John William M'Commas, Nelson Dills, Da- Jones, Henry \Y. Hunt, George Stephens, 28*