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. Minutes for 1821. 353

Lyons Creek, Daniel Shepherdson. Quest. 16. Where and when shall our Young-street, G. Peal, J. T. Demarest, next Conferences be held ? D. Youmans, sup. 1. Conference, at Chillicothe, Au Lower Canada. Dist. Henry Ryan, gust 8, 1820. P. Elder. 2. Missouri Conference, Shiloh Meet Montreal, Truman Dixon. ing-house, St. Clair county, September Attawaj 13, 1820. Cornwall, Elijah Boardman. 3. Tennessee Conference, Hopkinsville, Augusta, Timothy Goodwin, K. M'K. Kentucky, October 4, 1820. Smith. 4. Mississippi Conference, Mid way, Wil Rideau, Calvin N. Flint. kinson county, November 17, 1820. 5. South Carolina Bay Quintie, Robert Jeffers, D. C. Spore. Conference, Colum Hallowell, Jas. Wilson, Franklin Metcalf. bia, South Carolina, January 11, 1821. Bellville, Thomas Madden. 6. Virginia Conference, Raleigh city, Smith's Creek, Philander Smith. North Carolina, February 23, 1821. York, Fitch Reed. 7. Baltimore Conference, Baltimore, 'Northumberland, John Rhodes, Israel March 16, 1821. Cook. 8. Philadelphia Conference, Milford, *Shamokin, Marmaduke Pearce. state of Delaware, April 12, 1821. 9. New- *Lycoming,/oAn Thomas, Rob'l Menshall. York Conference, Troy, state of New- York, *Bald Eagle, Thomas M'Gce, Abram May 30, 1821. Dawson. 10. New-England Conference, Bane, , June 20, 1821. * The above are set off to the Baltimore Con 11. Genesee Conference, Paris, state ference. of New-York, July 19, 1821.

MINUTES

TAKEN AT THE SEVERAL ANNUAL CONFERENCES OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

FOB THE YEAR 1821.

1. Who Quest. are admitted on trial ? John Denham, Joseph B. Wyms, Joseph OHIO CONFERENCE. Williams, Elias Tidwell, Henry Gregg, Alfred Brunson, Wm. Crofford, Charles W- P- Kendrick, James Cumming, Thos. Thorn,horn, Jas. Collord, James Jones, Daniel Payne> Jonn Paulsaul, Wyley B. Peek, Limrick, Chas. Truscott, Nathan Walker, Benj. M. Drake, Aquilla Sampson, Alson Waters, A. Crawford, B. P. William I. Kent, Wm. Simmons, Henry J. I. Seawell, Wm. B. Knapp, Zarah Costio, Jas. Havins — 13. Carpenter, Jacob Sullivan, Sam'l Hyneman, Isaac Reynolds— 31. MISSOURI CONFERENCE. MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. Wm. L. Hawley, Elias Stone, Samuel P. Cook, Nicholas Bassett, Francis Moore, William Cravens, Henry T. Snead— 2. John M'Cord, W. W. Rodman, H. Vre- SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. denburgh, David Chamberlain, George V David Riley, Henry Seagrest, James Archi- Simms Isaac Br^nelV, bald Purify ^ho™ *&££ LevmHester^Green, Henry Stevenson, «B Gilbert Glenn, John Robertson, Daniel G. M'Da- uiaru— 15. nieli Elias Sinclair> r^-t T Wardj Elija|x TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. Sinclair, John I. Triggs, Noah Lancy, Milton Jameson, Wm. Young, Edward BodJ Eng)isn. M. M'Pherson, John Rey- Stevenson, John Evans, William Martin no,(,s, Livy Stancell— 16. Esau 5aJ**jw% Simmons, Allen B.' VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. B^"M-MAR^n0lJdsVJ-,W-M-Rey- Samuel Harre". J^n W. M. Kifby, nolds,m!it Blatchley C. Wood, Luke C. Allen, Thomas Crowder, Wm. Leigh, Archibald 23 354 Minutes for 1821.

Brownley, Mann Dutton, Henry Peyton, SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. T. B. Humphries, Swain Swift—9. Thomas Samford, Barnett Smith, Ro Rhodes, BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. bert Adams, Nathaniel Aquilla Norman, Thomas Gardner, Benjamin L. Samuel Clark, Samuel Bryson, Charles Hoskins. John H. Tradewell, Thomas A. Davis, Samuel Ellis, Charles Young, Mabry, George Hill, John Mullinix — 11. French S. Evans, Norval Wilson, Wil VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. liam H. Chapman, Thomas M. Hudson, George Harper, Shadrach Chaney, Jacob Moses Brock, Thomas R. Brame, John R. Sheppard— 12. Thompson, George A. Bane, John F. An — PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. drew, Robert Wilkinson 6. Samuel S. Kennard, Daniel Parrish, BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Eliphalet Reed, John Davis, Solomon Charles B. Tippett, Mordecai Barry, Higgins, John Bayne—6. Charles Cook, William C. Pool, Dennis B. David Steel, William Hanck, NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. Dorsey, John Haile, Wm. Brandeberry, Barton Prindle, Covel, Cyrus Samuel William Deforest, George Wells— 11. S. Pease, John Nixon, Eli Denison, Lu cius Baldwin, Geo. Smith, John Luckey, PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. Friend W. Smith, Roswell Kelly, Julius None. Field, John B. Tyler— 12. NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Robert Seney, John Moriarty, John Summerfield,* no .Clark. Nathan Rice— 5. Heman Perry, Benj. Brown, Wallace J Lark, H. Nickerson, Gorham Greely, NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Frederick Upham, Benjamin R. Lewis, Jotham Horton, James P. Harvey, Stephen Lovel, Aaron Fuller— 9. William M'Coy, Phinehas Crandel, Chas. GENESEE CONFERENCE. Baker, David Culver, Ella Dunham, Jo Kellam, Ezra Kellogg, Ezra S. Jos. Williams, Sam'l Bebins, Denison seph Goodwin, Gilman Moody, Samuel Plum- Smith, Asa Abel, Benjamin Dighton, Ezra mer, Abr'm Holway, True Page, Samuel Healy, Orin Foot, John Gaylord Sayre, Baker— 15. Judd, James Hodge, Benj. Landon, Asa Orcott, John Ryerson, George Farr— 14. GENESEE CONFERENCE. Ira Brownson, Josiah Kies, Hiram. Quest. 2. Who remain on trial ? Moore, Caleb Kendall, jr., David C. Spoor, OHIO CONFERENCE. K. M'K. Smith, Manly Tooker, Richard Isaac C. Hunter, Abner Goff, James Wright, W. H. Williams, Philander Smith, Gilrath, Thos. R. Ruckle, Josiah Foster, Jasper Bennett, Robert Parker, Philetus Peter Warner, Jas. Murray, John Kinny, Parkus, John B. Gilbert, Thomas Demo- Andrew Caneer, Abdiel Coleman, Benj. rest, Franklin Metcalf— 16. Crouch, Moses Hinkle, Thomas S. Hitt, Quest. 3. Who are admitted into William H. Raper, Robert Delap, Isaac full connection ? Collord, Horace Brown, David Dyke, John R. Keach, John P. Durbiti, Francis OHIO CONFERENCE. Wilson, Nathaniel Harris, W. M. P. Samuel Adams, James Smith, Samuel Quinn—23. Brockunier, Edward Taylor, Dennis God- Elliott, MISSOURI CONFERENCE. dard, Charles Thomas M'Clary, Zechariah Connel, G. R. Jones, Leroy Isaac N. — Piggott, James Scott 2. Swormstedt, Arthur W. Elliott, Andrew TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. M'Lean, Burwell Spin-lock, Hezekiah William Peter, Elijah Kirkman, John Holland, James T. Wells— 15. Breadfield, Meredith Renneau, Richard MISSOURI CONFERENCE. W. Morris, Ellesson Taylor, Moses Smith, Thomas Tenant, Washington Orr, Wm. Martin Flint, Samuel Patton, Wm. Gunn, Medford, John Wallace— 4. Josiah Browder, Cheslea Cole, Robert * John Summerfield, baring laboured three Hoopper — 13. -years as an itinerant preacher in Ireland, and as, MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. according to the regulation of the Irish Confer ence, he had but one year more to serve as a Thomas Clinton, Meredith Renau, Dan'l probationer, wa» received by the New-York Con- De Vinne—3. tei:erence a» remaining on trial. S3* Minutes for 1821. 355 TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. Slocomb, T. Tenant, elect, W. Orr, elect, J. Butcher, jr., John Brooks, Samuel W. Medford, elect, J. Wallace, elect —10. Harwell, George Brown, John Kesterson, TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. Ancil Richardson, Robert Payne, H. H. J. Butcher, elect, Brown, Starling C. Brown, George Lock, John Brooks, elect, S. Harwell, elect, David Adams, Elisha Simmons, Abraham G. %own, elect, J. Kesterson, Still, Lewis S. Marshall, Thomas elect, A. Richardson, elect, Madden, R. Joseph D. Farrow, Hezekiah Holland, Payne, elect, H. H. Brown, elect, S. C. Brown,* Lock, Josiah Whitaker, Zechariah Connell, Oba- George elect, David Adams, diah Freeman— 20. elect, Abraham Still, elect, L. S. Marshall, elect, T. Madden, elect, J. D. MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. Farrow, elect, H. Holland, elect, J. Whit — Wiley Ledbetter, John Booth 2. aker, elect, Z. Connell, elect, O. Freeman, elect, James SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. Witton, Jesse Green, John Davis, George Taylor, Win. Martin— 24. James Danelly, Barnabas Pipkin, Mat thew Raiford, John B. Chappel, Christian MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. G. Hill. John Howard, Thomas Craven, Wiley Ledbetter, elect, John Booth, Jesse Sinclair —8. elect— 2. VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. James Francis A. Ward, Williams Harris, Dannellv,* Barnabas Pipkin,* Matthew Raiford,* Enoch Johnson, Henry Alley, Miles Nash, John B. Chappel,* Clrristian G. Hill,* John Howard,* Thomas Howard, George C. Chesley — 7. Thos. Craven,* Jesse Sinclair,* James Dunwody, BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Elisha Callaway, Robert Flournoy, Thos. Edward Oram, Dennis H. Battee, Thos. L. Winn, William Hankins, John Mulli- J. Dorsey, Richard Armstrong, Jacob nix, Hugh Hammill, Nicholas Ware, As- Larkin, James Sansom, John Miller, Ben- bury Morgan, Benjamin Rhodes, John L. — net JJowler 8. Greaves, Thomas A. Smith, John L. Jerry. Charles Berts, PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. Josiah Evans, Thos. A. Rosamond —24. Henry G. King, John Tally, Edward Stevenson, Joseph Cary, Benjamin Col VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. lins, William Allen — 6. Francis A. Ward,* Williams Harris,* Enoch Johnson,* NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. Henry Alley,* Miles Nash,* Thomas Howard,* Geo. C. Ches John Bangs, George Coles, Orin Pier, ley,* Charles L. Cooley, Peter Doub, Samuel D. Ferguson— 4. Thompson Garrard, Geo. M. Anderson, NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Hezekiah G. Leigh, William Eastwood, Exum Edward T. Taylor, Isaac Stoddard, Chapman, Ira Parker, George W. Charleton, Joakim Elijah Spear, James L. Bishop, Samuel Lane, Curtis Hooks, Amos C. Norris— ft. Treadway--19. GENESEE CONFERENCE. BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Edward Oram,* Horace Agard, Henry Peck, James Dennis H. Battee,* Thomas Brown, Chester V. Adgate, Elijah Board- J. Dorsey,* Richard Armstrong,* Jacob Larkin,* man, Enoch Barnes, John Beggarly —7. James Sansom,* Jo'hn Miller,* Bennett Dowler,* Y. T. Peyton, Quest. 4. Who are the deacons ? Jesse Lee, John Tanyhill, Wni. Hamilton] OHIO CONFERENCE. Robert S. Vinton, James Moore, Samuel Those marked thus (*) were ordained this year. Cushen, P. G. Buckingham, Thomas Ira Eddy, Peter Stephens, Philip Green, M'Gee— 17. Samuel Adams,* James Smith,* Samuel PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. Brockenier,* Edward Taylor,* Dennis Henry G. King,* John Talley,* Ed Goddard,* Thomas M'Clary,* L. Sworm- ward Stevenson,* Joseph Cary,* Benja Btedt,* Andrew M'Lean,* James T. Wells* min Collins,* William Allen,* James —12. Long, Samuel Grace, William Wright— 9. MISSOURI CONFERENCE. NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. William Townsend, Job M. Baker, John Ebenezer Brown, Harvey De Wolf, Harris, Calvin Ruter, John Steward, Chas. Noah Levings, James Quinlan, Henry 356 Minutes for 1821.

Hatfield, Cyrus Silliman, Seymour Lan- Bangs, John J. Matthias, Timothy Bene don, George Coles,* Orin Pier,* Samuel dict— 5. D. Ferguson* —10. NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. John Briggs, elect, Eleazer Steel, elect, Jesse FillmAre, John S. Ayer, Peter Joel W. M'Kee, Edward T. Taylor— 4. Burgess, Sullivan Bray, Damon Young, GENESEE CONFERENCE. S. B. Haskel, Samuel Norris,* Isaac Alvin Torry, John B. Alverson, Ezra Stoddard,* Elijah Spear,* James L. Adams, R. A. Ailworth, John Dempster, Bishop*— 10. Parker Buell, Cyrus Story, elect, Glezen GENESEE CONFERENCE. Fillmore, Fitch Reed— 9. Truman Dixon, Calvin N. Flint, Ed Quest. 6. Who are the bishops and super mund O'Fling, Dana Fox, James G. Peal, intendents ? Samuel Belton, Russel Downing, Hiram William M'Kendree,* Enoch George, G. Warner, Robert Jeffers, William W. Robert R. Roberts—3. Rundall, Zachariah Paddock, James Wil son, Alanson Gifford, Andrew Peck, Timo Quest. 7. Who have located this year ? thy Goodwin, Micah Seager, Jeter Foster, OHIO CONFERENCE. Williams, James Jackson, Horace Benajah William P. Finley, William Dixon, Ro Peck,* James Brown,* Agard,* Henry bert C. Hatten, Sedocia Bacon, John Sol Boardman,* C. V. Adgate,* Elijah Enoch omon — 5. Barnes,* John Beggarly* —26. MISSOURI CONFERENCE 5. Who have been elected and or Quest. John Everhart, John M'Farland, Joseph dained elders this year ? Pownal, Daniel M'Henry— 4. OHIO CONFERENCE. TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. G. R. Jones, Arthur W. Elliott, Ezra Samuel D. Sansom, George M'Nelly, Booth, William Westlake, Thomas A. Jacob Whitworth, David Goodner, T. Car Morris, Thomas Carr, Samuel Baker, penter —5. John C. Brook, Joseph Carper, Samuel Chenowith, Allen Wiley— 11. MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. John I. E. Bird, John MISSOURI CONFERENCE. Manifee, John M'Lendon— 3. A. M'Allister, elect, Samuel Glaize, • SOUTH elect, Thomas Davis, elect — 3. CAROLINA CONFERENCE. Raleigh Greene, TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. Jeremiah Freeman, James Hutts, Jeremiah Norman, John James Blair, elect, John Evans, elect, Moate, Joseph Tarpley, William B. Bar- Allison, elect, B. Peoples, elect, Wm. T. nett, Griffin Christopher —8. Stringfield, elect, L. Garrett, elect, W. S. VIRGINIA Manson, elect, E. Hearn, elect, E. Ashley, CONFERENCE. elect, Simon Peter, elect, G. Brown, elect, Joshua Lawrence, William Peebles, William Hotman, elect, S. Dement, elect James M'Aden, Edward T. Rowzie, John —13. T. Weaver, John H. Boyd, Benjamin Ste SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. vens, Henry Hardy, William D. Barret, Lewis Skidmore — 10. John Taylor, Hartwell Spain, John Dix, * Benjamin Gordon—4. As Bishop M'Kendree, at the last General Conference, was unable, on account of debility, VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. to fulfil the duties of his office, the Conference William D. Barrett, James Smith, Isaiah passed the following resolutions, viz. : 1. " That it is the wish Harris — 3. and desire of this Ge neral Conference that Bishop M'Kendree, during BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. his afflictions and debility, should travel in such directions, or remain in Henry Furlong, William Bames, Tho such places, as he may judge most conducive to his own health and mas Jamison, 4. Richard M'Allister—- comfort ; and that he be accordingly, at the close PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. of this General Conference, respectfully and af fectionately requested so to do." Quinn, Bartholomew Weed, William 2. "That whenever he shall think himself able, Charles Pittman— 3. it is the wish and desire of this General Confer NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. ence that he should continue, so far as his health may prudently admit of it, the exercise of his John M. Smith, Jacob Hall, John episcopal functions and superintending care.H Minutes for 1821. 357 BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Lawrence Everhart, Mordecai Gosnell, Joseph'Toy, Seely Bunn, Nelson Reed, George Erwin— 3. Joshua Wells, Hamilton Jefferson, Morris — NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. Howe, William Houston 7. Alexander M'Caine, Peter Bussing — 2. PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. James Polemus, Joseph Scull, Robert M'Coy, Wm. M'Lenahan, Nathan Swain, Benjamin Keith, Araasa Taylor, Joseph Thomas Everard, Richard Sneath, Wil Lull, Jeremiah Marsh, Zalmon Stewart, liam Hunter, John Goforth, William P. Amasa Cowles, William M. Gray, Joshua Early, Asa Smith, Jacob Moore, Peter Nye, William Marsh— 9. Vannest— 13. GENESEE CONFERENCE. " NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. James Brownson. Elisha P. Jacob, Samuel Fowler, Eze Quest. 8. Who are the supernumerary kiel Canfield, Earl Bancroft, Timothy preachers ? Benedict, Luman Andrus, Nathan Emery, OHIO CONFERENCE. Zalmon Lyon, Cyprian H. Gridley, Oliver — Moses Crume, Thomas A. Morris — 2. Sykes, John Crawford 11. MISSOURI CONFERENCE. NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Samuel Glaize. Zenas Adams, Eleazer Wells, Orlando Hinds, Wilbur Fisk, John Brodhead — 5. TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. Benjamin Malone, W. M'Mahan, James GENESEE CONFERENCE. „ Leech, J. Cunningham— 4. Thomas Whitehead, Benjamin Bidlack, William Brown, Peter Baker, Joseph Wil SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. lis, John Kimberlin, John B. Alverson, John Murrow. Peter Jones, Elijah King— 9. BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Asa Shinn. Quest. 10. Who have been expelled from the connection this year ? PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. OHIO CONFERENCE. Ezekiel Cooper, Joseph Osborne, James Smith, of Baltimore — 3. William Burke. NEW- YORK CONFERENCE. MISSOURI CONFERENCE. William Phoebus, Smith Arnold, F. Gar- John C. Harbison. rettson, Jacob Beaman— 1. TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Nicholas Norwood. Daniel Wentworth. NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. GENESEE CONFERENCE. Nicholas Morris. Jeter Foster, Seth Mattison, David Youmans, William Cameron, John Demp NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. ster — 5. Daniel Plumlcy. Quest. 9. Who are the ot superannuated Quest. 1 1 . Who have withdrawn from worn-out preachers ? the connection this year ? OHIO CONFERENCE. PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. — John Sale, David Young 2. Daniel Ireland. ' MISSOURI CONFERENCE. NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. Jacob Whitesides, Charles Slocumb—2. William M. StilwelL TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. Benjamill Edge, Thomas Stilwell — 2. GENESEE CONFERENCE. William SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. Barlow. Hartwell Spain, John Gamewetl, Elijah Quest. 12. Were all the preachers' charac Bird— 3. ters examined before the Conferences ? VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. This was strictly attended to, by calling Philip Bruce, Hezekiah M'Lelland, over their names before their respective Samuel Garrard, John Lattimore— 4. Conferences. 358 Minutes for 1821.

Quest. 13. Who have died this year ? intercourse with mankind. During his pre 1. Samuel Parker, —a native of the sidency on this district he was married to state o(" New-Jersey, and born about the Oletha Tilton, who enjoyed his society long year 1774. His parents were pious and enough to be sensible that there is no respectable. He was put to a trade young, affliction incident to suffering humanity so and became a proficient in his business. exquisite as the loss of a companion who At the age of fourteen he was awakened united all the endearing qualities which under the preaching of the gospel ; and nature and grace can combine in the cha soon after, forsaking the scenes of gay and racter of a husband. fashionable dissipation, in which, owing to A situation of the greatest importance the suavity of his manners, the gentleness in the Mississippi Conference required to of his disposition, and his uncommonly fine be provided for. The superintendent felt voice in singing, he was a great favourite, the utmost solicitude on the subject. He he attached himself to the Methodist soci saw in brother Parker whatever be wished ety, then very generally held in contempt in the person to be selected ; but there by the world. He became eminent for were great difficulties to be surmounted, his devotion to God, and to the cause of and great privations to be endured. His piety. He continued to occupy a private health was very delicate : his wife must station in the church for twelve years ; not, be torn from her friends and a comfortable however, without being often warned that home to wander among strangers : the a dispensation of the gospel was committed distance was great, and the country very to him, and that he must expect the divine unfavourable to health. Yet, when the displeasure if he persisted in burying the bishop intimated the demands which the talent intrusted to him for improvement. church had to make upon his labours and But such was his unaffected modesty, that sufferings, he was ready, in the true spirit it was long ere he could be prevailed upon of St. Paul, to say, "I count not my life to take upon himself the character of an dear unto me, that I may finish my course ambassador for Christ. with joy, and the ministry which I have At length, in the year 1800, he received received — I will go." He accordingly license as a local preacher in the Metho went. But, alas ! the sanguine hopes of dist Episcopal Church : and continued to tbe bishop, and of those in Mississippi sustain that relation with usefulness till who knew him, were rendered abortive by the Conference of 1805, when, giving him the state of his health. Nearly the only self up to the work of the ministry, he be advantage resulting from his emigration to came a travelling preacher. He was that that country was the lesson his example year appointed to the Hinkstone circuit ; afforded, on the spirit and peace in which 1806, Lexington circuit ; 1807, Limestone a Christian can suffer and die. He was circuit; 1808,Miamicircuit. At the Con in very ill health when he arrived at bis ference for 1809 he graduated to elder's place of destination, and continued gra orders, having stood his probation and used dually to decline till some time in Novem the office of a deacon well, and was, the ber, when his disease assumed so malig same year, appointed to preside in the In nant a character as to excite fearful ap diana district, at that time one of the most prehensions in his friends that they were difficult and important stations in the Con soon to be deprived of him. At the time ference. Here he continued four years ; when the Conference met he was consi and so mightily grew the word of God and dered slightly mended, and hopes were prevailed, that it was found necessary to entertained by some that he would soon divide the district, and call more labourers recover ; but others, better acquainted to cultivate the extensive field that had with the disease and the influence of that been opened under his superintendence. climate, considered his case to be hope Thus abundantly did he justify the confi less. Soon alter the rising of the Con dence reposed in him by the superintend ference his disorder returned -with more ents. In 1813 he rode the Deer Creek cir violence than ever. In all these changes cuit, and was blessed in his labours, and hon this servant of the Lord was able to say, " oured by those to whom he ministered; 1814, without a repining sigh, Father, not he was appointed presiding elder in the Mi mine, but thy will be done!" Thus he ami district; 1815, presiding elder in the lived, and thus he suffered many tedious Kentucky district, where he continued four months of severe affliction in a land of years, blessing and being blessed in all his strangers ; and thus, on the 20th of De Minutes for 1821. 359 cember, 1819, he breathed oat his happy the Lord precious, and immediately felt spirit into the hands of that Saviour and his mind impressed to preach the gospel, Friend whom he had so long and so faith and to persuade sinners to seek the bless fully served. ings he enjoyed, and commenced travelling He left a wife and a son in the care of with his brother Thomas, who had been " Him who has said, Leave thy fatherless recently appointed to Orangeburg circuit. children, and let thy widow trust in me ;" In a short time his brother died ; he and God was faithful to the trust reposed offered his services, and was employed to in him by his servant. The son, an in succeed him. At the ensuing Conference fant, he speedily snatched away from a he was admitted on trial, and appointed to world in which the tears of the orphan Little River circuit ; 1813, to Cedar are too often disregarded ; and to the wi Creek ; 1814, he was admitted into full dow he raised up many friends, who were connection, ordained deacon, and appoint ready and willing at all times to adminis ed to Grove circuit ; 1815, Deep River ; ter to her relief and comfort. 1816, ordained elder and appointed to His funeral sermon was preached on Washington; 1817, Oakmulgee ; 1818, the Sunday after his death, at Washing Ohoopee ; 1819, Washington ; 1820, Lou ton, Mississippi, to a large and melting isville, where he laboured for six or seven congregation, on Rev. xiv, 13, by William months, and saw the fruit of his labours in Winans, a young man whom he had con some good degree. In August he went tributed to bring into the ministry, and to to his residence in Washington county, foster, in the infancy of his labours, with where, on the 24th, he was attacked with the tenderness of a parent. the bilious fever, accompanied with the Of his character, nothing so proper, bilious cholie, which caused his death. perhaps, could be said, as that he exem He said from the first of his illness that plified, in a very unusual degree, the de he should not recover, and on the first scription of charity so inimitably drawn day of September, perceiving his end was " out in the thirteenth chapter of 1 Corinth near, said, The Lord is here ;" and ex ians. The loss sustained by his family is horted all around to seek the Lord. Ad " unspeakably great ; that of the church dressing his wife, he said, Surely the much greater. We can be no otherwise Lord is here!" he then bid her and all satisfied under this dispensation of Provi present farewell, turned over, and, with dence than by reflecting that it is of Him out a sigh or groan, closed his own eyes, who doeth all things well. He who has folded his hands, and his happy spirit took bereaved his church of this highly valua its flight. ble minister has the means in his hands Thus lived and died our brother Charles of abundantly supplying his lack of ser Dickinson. As a Christian, he was ex vice. May he send down a double por emplary and devoted. About four years tion of the Spirit which rested on this our before his death he professed to obtain Elijah upon many that he shall call to perfect love, which he endeavoured to cultivate the vineyard, from which he has live and preach. taken his servant to his eternal rest His talents were not extraordinary, but 2. Charles Dickinson, — who was born sufficient, with his zeal and devotion, to in Moore county, North Carolina, about qualify him for extensive usefulness. the year 1784. His opportunities of ob He is gone to his reward. Our loss is taining an education, either in letters or his eternal gain. religion, were very limited ; he, of con 3. Archibald Robinson,— who was born sequence, grew up in great ignorance of December 25, A. D. 1794, was a native God and divine things. of Bladen county, North Carolina. He It was not until about his twentieth year was of respectable parents, by whom he that he heard any sermons of that evan was taught, from his childhood, to be a gelical nature that were calculated to strict observer of morality, which, nnder arouse his mind, and bring him to a dis the blessing of Providence, appears to covery of his lost and undone state. have been a means of his early conversion While on a visit among his relations in to God. But they being in ordinary cir South Carolina, by the instrumentality of cumstances, he was among those praise Methodist preaching, he was awakened, worthy youths whose industry is always and brought to seek redemption in the ready to administer aid to those who gave bio id of Christ. He sought, and found them birth. And that he might do this 360 Minutes for 1821.

the more effectually, he desisted from he was more violently attacked than he teaching sacred musie, in which he had had been before. previously engaged, (and in which he was From meeting he went home with Mr. well skilled,) and turned his attention to H. Bryan, and after getting there he was a more lucrative employment, as he so filled with divine love that, being una thought; by which means he providen ble to contain any longer, his cup ran tially got into a Methodist neighbourhood, over, and he continued praising God for where divine conviction soon laid, hold on nearly half an hour, till his strength was his heart, and he was brought to see him almost exhausted. self a sinner, and that he had wandered The next day he had recourse to medi far in forbidden paths, and had exposed cine, and was apparently much better ; himself to the wrath of God. In this but on the following Iriday he grew awakened state he continued weeping, worse, and a physician was called in, but mourning, and praying till some time in to little purpose, as it appeared in the the course of the year 1816, when, being end ; for he continued to fail till Sunday, among a people who practised family the 20th instant, about eleven o'clock at worship, while these words were giving night, when his happy soul took its de " out, Father, I stretch my hands to thee," parture, we believe, to the paradise of &c, he sunk upon the back of a chair, God. "There the wicked cease from and from thence on his knees, where he troubling, and the weary are at rest." — " continued wrestling in prayer till Christ Let me die the death of the righteous, broke the fetters with which he was and let my last end be like his." bound, and emancipated his soul from the 4. John Robertson-. — The subject of the bondage of sin ; when he arose and testi following short memoir was born of re fied that God had power on earth to for spectable and religious parents, in the give sins. Soon after this he obtained township of New-Providence, Essex coun license to exhort, and conducted himself ty, East Jersey, March 31, 1782. He with so much prudence and circumspec professed to obtain the knowledge of sal tion that he gained the confidence of vation by the remission nf sin in 1800, those who knew him. But not being when he connected himself with the Me satisfied in this circumscribed sphere, he thodist Episcopal Church, and soon after was duly recommended to the Virginia began to exercise his talent by way of Conference, held in Norfolk in February, exhortation, and preaching as a local 1818, and was appointed to Guilford cir preacher. cuit ; but in the course of the year he was He joined the travelling connection in removed to Salisbury, in consequence of 1803, and was appointed to the following the preacher who was appointed there not circuits : Norton, 1803 ; Vcrshire, 1804 ; being able to attend to his charge. In Croton, 1805 ; Pittsfield, 1806 ; Saratoga, 1819 he was sent back to Salisbury ; and 1807 ; Newburg, 1808 ; Grand Isle, 1809 ; in 1820 he was ordained a deacon at the New- York, 1810; Bergen, 1811; Union Conference in Richmond, and sent to New- and Kensington, 1812; Staten Island, River circuit, where he ended his labours 1813; Essex, 1814 and 1815; Trenton, and his life. In all these stations he was 1816 : located in 1817, on account of de well received and generally beloved, and bility; 1818, readmitted into the Philadel laboured to the satisfaction of his congre phia Conference, and was stationed in gations, and to the edification and comfort Bristol; Chester, 1819; St. John's, 1820; of the church of God. His natural abili where he finished his course, August 8th, ties were tolerably good, and such was his at five o'clock in the morning, in the thir strength of intellect, that had he lived he ty-ninth year of his age. His constitu might have been a great blessing to the tion was rather feeble, which subjected church and an ornament to the ministry. him to frequent attacks of disease. For But he is gone, and our loss, we trust, is some years before his death he had been his infinite gain. afflicted with occasional hemoptysis, which For some time before his confinement excited an apprehension of the approach he was somewhat indisposed ; but, from of some fatal disease of the organs of re an ardent wish to do all he could to save spiration. In the beginning of the year souls, he pressed forward in the discharge 1820 he had a severe attack of pleuritis. of his duty till the 9th of August, when of which he never entirely recovered, and he preached his last sermon ; after which which ended in phthisis pvdmonalis, that Minutes for 1821. 361

terminated his earthly career, his sutler- Haverhill, West Parish, Massachusetts, inns, and his labours. November 23d, 1794. In March, 1797, J. Robertson was a man of great sim his parents moved with him to Orford, on plicity of manners and character. He River, in Grafton county,New- was a sincere Christian, and faithful dis Hampshire. He was brought up in a pious ciple of his Master. He was affable, and tender manner, and early taught to courteous, and respectful to all, and ardent reverence the God that made him; but, in his attachments to his family and his notwithstanding he had the means of re friends. As a minister of the gospel, he ligious instruction at home and abroad, no was in general highly and deservedly es permanent impressions were made on his teemed. He possessed considerable ta mind until the year 1810. At this time lents, and was a good and useful preacher. Gnd wrought a gracious revival in Orford, He was industrious and indefatigable in and our departed brother was a sharer. his ministerial labours, and in visits from Having experienced the happy influence house to house, instructing and edifying of divine grace himself, he soon began to the various members of the flock intrusted recommend religion to others, both in pub to his care. In the stations he occupied lic and private ; and being viewed as a at different times he was in the habit of suitable person to exhort publicly, he was paying his pastoral visits to almost every shortly licensed. But he was not long family in the neighbourhood in which he content to move in so small a circle. His lived, whether of the society or not, and parents and friends were made acquainted praying in each family as far as circum with his exercise with regard to entering stances would admit, and he could obtain the sacred office of the ministry. They permission ; and this course he pursued in gave their consent," but recommended him the last station he filled, until within a first to graduate at the university. From few days of his death. He preached his a sense of immediate duty to God and his last sermon on the sabbath, only two days fellow-men he declined this offer, and was prior to his dissolution ; at which time he employed by the presiding elder of New- informed his congregation that he spoke Hampshire district on Tuftonborough cir to them as a dying man, who should cuit from the autumn of 1811 until June, shortly account to his God for the manner 1812, when the New-England Conference in which he had improved his ministerial sat at Lynn, Mass. At this Conference talents. he was admitted as a travelling preacher On the following sabbath his funeral on trial, being in his eighteenth year, and sermon was preached in the same place to appointed to Bridgewater circuit, New- a large and deeply affected congregation, Hampshire district ; 1813 he was " ap from, Let me die the death of the right pointed to the charge of Pembroke circuit, eous, and let my last end be like his." on the same district ; 1814, was ordained In his last moments there was no oppor deacon at the Durham Conference in the tunity of conversing with him, in conse state of Maine, and appointed to Scituate quence of his sudden departure, so that the in Massachusetts, on district; 1815, particular state of mind he then was in was appointed to Sandwich and Falmouth could not be precisely ascertained ; but we with Rev. J. W. Hardy, in Massachusetts. have no doubt his end was peace ; for he The latter part of this year he supplied a had been for some time looking for death, station in Boston; 1816, at the Bristol not as a messenger of terror, but as a Conference in , he was or harbinger of peace, to release him from dained elder, and appointed to Somerset, this valley of tears. Massachusetts ; 1817, was returned on the On the morning of his death he was Minutes superannuated, and on the 19th about rising from his bed at his usual hour, of November was married to a worthy and commenced a conversation with his member of our church, who, with two wife on some domestic subject, when he - small children, is left to mourn a loss was suddenly seized with a violent dis irreparable ; 1818, was returned superan charge of blood from his lungs, and in nuated ; 1819, was supernumerary on Lan- stantly expired. He has left a wife and daff circuit ; 1820, was again returned three children, who sensibly and deeply superannuated. These stations he filled feel the loss they have sustained. with respectability and usefulness. 5. Richard Emery, — the youngest son He had from the early part of his minis of John and Abiah Emery, was born in try been subject to weakness at the lungs, 362 Minutes for 1821. and sometimes raising of blood : this in 6. Alpheus Davis. — He was born at Paris, creased with his years, and finally termi Oneida, New- York, December 11, 1793. nated in a pulmonary consumption, of which At the age of twelve years he removed he died January 7, 1821, aged twenty-six with his parents to Rodman, Jefferson years, one month, and fourteen days. county, where, a year after, he experi He had spent the last three years of his enced the forgiveness of his sins. Though life principally at his own house in Orford, for some time he strictly observed the near where he was brought up ; but in duties which the religion of the gospel in 1820 his physicians advised him to go to culcates, yet, through the influence of the south, hoping it would improve his temptation, he at length threw off the re health. In a very feeble state he com straints of divine grace, and fell into a menced this journey in September, but careless, backslidden state. It was not had advanced but about one hundred and long, however, before the lost sheep was eighty miles when he was obliged to re found, and the prodigal son restored to his linquish it. He was now in Wethers- Father's house. Being reclaimed from a. field, Connecticut ; his confinement was state in which the sufferings of his mind long and tedious, from the 12th of October had been exquisite, and out of which he to the 7th of January. His sufferings, had escaped through struggles of the deep however, were mitigated, as far as- possi est anguish, the powers of his mind began ble, by the hospitable people of Wethers- to unfold themselves like the blossoms of field, who ceased not in their acts of kind spring, particularly as it related to the call ness until death had put him beyond their ing in which he closed his life ; and from reach, and lodged him where none shall the zeal and ability with which he exer " say, I am sick." cised himself in religious meetings, his In the first part of this confinement he brethren could not mistake the sphere in had not those clear and animating pros which God had designed him to move. pects that he wished, but God was his Giving evidence of his call to the ministry, rock, and he was soon delivered ; after he was regularly authorized to preach, and which he possessed all that firm confidence was employed to labour in the vineyard of which is consequent on a genuine faith in the Lord, as follows : About one year he Jesus Christ. He now viewed the bless laboured as a local preacher, after which ing of sanctification in a clear and import he travelled nearly a year in the Cayuga ant light, and regretted he had not preached circuit, under the license of a presiding it more frequently. He felt that holiness elder. The year following, viz., 1816, he was the only qualification for heaven, and was united to the itinerant ministry, and he longed to be with his God. He con appointed to the Northumberland circuit ; sidered death only as an entrance into 1817, to Clarence; 1818, to Detroit ; 1819, glory, and submissively prayed and wished to Herkimer ; 1820, he appeared on the for its arrival ; and when the " final hour" Minutes superannuated. Our departed had come, he embraced it with apostolic brother and fellow-labourer in the gospel firmness, exclaiming for his last words, has left a vacancy in the church of God " I am wrapt in the visions of God's love." which few will be able to supply. To say Thus he took his departure from these he had no faults would be to raise him " mortal shores, and his final hour brought above human beings ; but to say few have glory to his God." He died at the house had less would be believed by all who knew of widow Rockwell, a member of our him. In the private circles of social life church. he was highly esteemed, as well by the His sickness and death gave an instruc aged as the youth. An assemblage of tive lesson to the people of Wethersfield, agreeable and useful qualities, which were and it is believed they improved from it. the ornament of his mind and the savour His life was a living sermon, of which his of his life, could not fail to interest society. death was the improvement. His wife has But when we follow our dearly beloved lost a kind husband, his children a tender brother through the more retired and ob father, his parents a dutiful son, the youth scure scenes of life into the field of his a bright example, the church a worthy mi public ministry, we find him no less the nister, to whose interest he has fallen a faithful pastor of his flock than the agree martyr. But he conquered when he fell ; able and profitable associate of his friends, a throne is the reward of his labour, from and the dutiful child of his parents. His which he rests, and his works follow him. private studies, his pastoral visits, and his Minutes for 1821. 363

public exercises, were happily directed to Whites. Col Whites. Col. Cuyahoga cir. 450 the great object which the gospel is de Union 1230 Grand River 353 Milford 1082 3 signed to promote : and it may be said of Huron 227 White Oak 1370 1 him in every station which he filled, that " London 568 1 his labour was not in vain in the Lord." 4916 9 Strait Creek 391 he Paint Creek 575 7 Though sustained every relation in life Scioto District. he held with reputation and usefulness, at Columbus 872 9 7324 55 no did he Pickaway 980 period shine with more lustre or Miami District. Salt Creek 443 appear to greater advantage than in his Miami cir. reo Hockhocking 339 last illness. After the Cincinnati 533 33 consumption (of Deer Creek 1307 9 Oxford 77G 5 which he died) had progressed to an alarm Chilicothe 300 48 Greenville 280 ing stage, he expressed a wish to regain Scioto 1349 20 White Water 1206 Brush Creek 9S9 4 his health : he, however, deprecated the Lawrenceburg705 approach of death only that ho might be Madison 855 6579 90 serviceable to the world as an ambassador Hamilton and Lebanon District. for Christ. The patience which distin Rossville 63 Mad River 1284 43 guished the last sufferings of brother Da Piqua 824 5244 54 vis, as well as the fortitude and cheerful ness with which he met the king of terrors, MISSOURI CONFERENCE. gave evidence of that true piety which is Indiana District. Missouri District. Silver Creek 906 6 Missouri and peculiar to the Christian. He was held in Blue River 588 1 Buffalo 215 such high estimation by the friends among Bloomingtou 343 Boonslick 246 whom he died, that several families con Vincennes 484 5 Lamvine 140 tended for the privilege of nursing him in Patoka lti-5 A Bceuf 125 his sickness. But, notwithstanding his Ohio 208 Bellevue 119 Mount Ster Cold Water 84 youth, his rare and abilities, and promising ling 108 Saline 86 the hopes and solicitude of his friends, he Indian Creek 633 4 St. Francis 99 fell a victim to death ! he sleeps to wake — Cape Girax- no more in time ! This promising youth, 3492 16 deau 206 " New-Madrid 75 after having fought the good fight, and Illinois District. the kept faith," finished his course, October Mount Car- 1395 148 8th, 1820, in the twenty-seventh year of mel 146 Black River District. his age. The circulation of these melan Wabash 184 Spring River Cash River 253 choly tidings among his friends, and espe cir. 120 5 Okaw 219 Arkansas 53 2 cially among his spiritual children, though Illinois 509 Hot Spring 133 6 it may call them to mourning, yet it must Shoal Creek 300 Mount Prairie 180 12 excite the liveliest gratitude to God for Sangamo 103 Pcccon Point 25 giving him the victory in death. To sus 1804 tain our loss with resignation, let us calmly 511 25 reflect that he has gone to meet his rich TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. reward in heaven. That he died in the Kenhawa District. Lexington cir. 783 211 Lord, and that he rests from his labours, Middle Island Maysville we .can have no doubt. Big Kenhawa 600 15 Greenbrier 5089 706 Quest. 14. What numbers are in Society? Monroe Nashville District. 438 Nashville 72 32 OHIO Guyandotte CONFERENCE. Little Sandy 335 Nashville cir. 967 199 Ohio District. Whites. Col. John's Creek 170 Lebanon 1034 88 Whites. Col. Duck Creek 612 Little Kenhawa Cany Fork 841 72 West Wheel Little Kana Bedford 819 91 ing 834 wha 570 1543 102 Richland 571 55 Cross Creek 674 Marietta 593 Kentucky District. Duck River 638 59 Steubenville no Athens 665 Limestone 783 103 Buffalo «93 1 Beaver 650 Lctart Falls 427 Fleming 806 55 Stone's River 819 29 Mahoning 750 Burlington 308 Mount Ster- Erie 831 ling 545 105 5854 626 Luke 486 5025 8 Hinkston 962 137 Tennessee District. Chetauque 474 Lancaster District. Licking 609 Flint 564 81 Fairfield cir. 1182 Newport 433 Limestone 407 4869 5 Granville 635 Lexington and Shoal 257 9 Muskingum District. Knox 570 Georgetown 108 52 Cotoco 376 21 Barnesville 1081 8 Mansfield 922 Zanesville 769 Tuscarawas 577 * According to the return last year. 364 Minutes for 1821.

Whites. Col. Whites. Col. Whites. Col. Whites. Col. Tuscaloosa 344 37 Shelby 406 51 Enoree 617 158 Fayetteville 155 276 Jefferson 526 110 Sandy River 360 111 Wilmington 120 777 1948 148 Franklin 173 2 Columbia 115 185 Green River District. Louisville 100 45 Camden 117 398 3119 4158 Breckenridge 303 Santee 545 485 Catawba District. Hartford 2691 331 Wateree 642 240 Morganton 398 15 Henderson Holston District. Newberry 525 271 Black Moun Livingston Lee 327 21 tain 388 19 Christian Clinch 426 38 3474 1949 Upper French- Dover Tazewell 390 37 Pee Dee District. Broad 536 41 Dixon Abingdon 317 42 Lynch'sCreek360 100 Union 645 97 Red River Ashe 135 Black River 394 370 Lincoln 495 99 Holston 495 63 Little Pee Dee 863 248 Sugar Creek 268 93 Carter's Val Brunswick 661 357 Rocky River 626 90 ley 526 98 Bladen 263 341 Montgomery 520 62 Cumberland District. Deep River 192 164 Somerset 424 14 2616 304 Georgetown 111 1525 3876 516 Wayne 398 3 French-Broad District. Goose VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. Creek 501 28 Nollichuckie 800 59 Roanoke District. Fountain Powell's Val Norfolk District. Norfolk 312 302 Roanoke 650 240 Head 777 127 ley 492 30 . BowlmgGreen602 52 Tennessee Portsmouth 233 149 Washington 163 128 Princess Ann 922 627 Swift Creek 99 65 Barren 634 18 Valley 377 54 Suffolk 562 371 Albemarle Green River 540 39 Sequatchy Bertie 540 160 Sound 146 7 Barren River 374 24 Valley 370 7 Camden and Banks and Isl Little River 606 74 657 636 ands 287 44 4250 305 Knox 500 16 Edenton Sussex 620 142 Salt River District. Knoxville 48 20 1345 484 Cumberland 281 15 Hiwassee 106 -Madison 337 11 3846 2387 Paint Rock 134 Neuse District. Danville 395 74 Janus River District. Richmond 243 89 Tar River 603 178 Salt River 473 23 3433 263 Williamsburg 516 56 Haw River 452 141 MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. Gloucester 1215 18 Raleigh city 48 68 Hanover 362 45 Raleigh eir. 646 465 Mississippi District. Chickasawhayl89 52 161 17 Black River 441 259 Natchez cir. 328 150 Tiunbrckl.ee 284 183 Culpepper Amherst 377 42 New-River 235 267 Wilkinson 232 59 Alabama 255 21 Columbia 700 78 Newborn 191 667 Amu 296 19 Cochaker 268 50 Beaufort and Peail River 219 81 3574 345 Straits 320 256 1190 322 District. 1075 309 Meherrin Louisiana District. Cahawba District. Greensville 650 215 2936 2301 Mecklenburg 310 36 Attakapas 90 26 Franklin 229 10 Bedford and Yadkin District. Washataw 76 3 Cahawba 355 433 83 Franklin 144 32 Tuscaloosa Lynchburg Buckingham 419 30 Yadkin 32(1 24 166 29 Marian 142 Cumberland 362 30 Iredell 559 44 Alabama District. Petersburg 98 59 Salisbury 715 6 Whitesand 194 16 1012 44 Amelia 564 76 Guilford 74G 90 SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. Brunswick 407 118 Caswell 748 129 Athens District. Ogeechce District. 3248 647 3532 325 Appalachee 636 109 Augusta 123 87 Gmve 512 36 Louisville 247 49 BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Broad River 817 124 Warren 715 273 Baltimore District. Fairfax 352 180 Alcovi 945 ISO Little River 658 159 Great Falls 698 229 Jefferson 765 212 Sparta 589 250 Saluda 550 112 Fell's Point 648 232 Berkley 529 37 Cedar Creek 1020 303 Keewee 868 64 Baltimore Winchester 716 192 city 2482 1358 Loudoun 470 160 4519 1002 3161 744 Baltimore cir. 726 248 Stafford 380 50 Oconee District. Edisto District. Montgomery 714 540 Fredericks Washington 345 73 Charleston 350 2008 Severn 726 766 burg 115 9 Big Oakmul- Cooper River 232 456 Annapolis 188 226 Westmore gee 532 '81 Cypress 608 583 Pr. George's 303 775 land 202 15 Little Oak- Orangeburg 844 465 Calvert 787 1531 Lancaster 660 145 mulgee 133 3 Congaree 190 90 Ebcnezer 179 112 Ot.copee 261 70 Black Swamp 182 128 Foundry 206 57 4449 1165 Satilla and Savannah 56 110 Georgetown 359 320 Greenbrier District. St. Mary's 169 49 Alleehany 647 134 Lappahu 54 2462 3840 8016 6391 South Branoh 326 47 Broad River District. Potomac District. Pendleton 551 93 1494 276 Reedy River 553 101 Alexandria 260 169 Bottetourt 300 84 Minutes for 1821. 365

Whites. Col. Whites. Col. Whites. I3ol. Wl titcs. Col. Staunton 178 120 Somerset 302 7 New-Haven 237 5 Stowe 497 1 Rockingham 685 153 Connelsville 494 Stratford 490 10 Grand Isle 193 —- Redding 561 6 Chazy 78 Mahoning 92 — 2687 631 ____ . Plattsburg 543 4 Carlisle District 3514 74 3602 78 Ticonderoga 218 rfarford 1025 296 Saratoga District _^^ Little York 119 6 Monongahela Uist%ict. Montgomery 572 11 3310 11 Carlisle 680 12 Washington 318 6 Saratoga 761 12 Hudson River District. Juniatta 150 Ohio 548 41 Pitlstown 501 13 Auckwiok 420 8 Short Creek 270 26 Troy, 220 5 Albany 171 17 Huntingdon 400 10 -East Wheel Schenectady 145 8 Cocymans 661 12 Bedford 390 20 ing 260 Berne 549 1 Sharon and Chambers- Monongahela i Cambridge 430 9 Jefferson 1087 7 burg 591 186 & Randolph 763 45 Warren 270 Delaware 850 4 Frederick cir. 980 462 Harbison 862 25 — Newburg cir . 655 24 Preston 205 1 3448 59 Newburg 68 4755 998 Northumber Champlain District. New-Wind Pittsburg District. land 551 Brandon 776 2 sor 547 11 Pittsburg 690 7 Shamokin 217 Middlcbury 114 Sullivan 485 5 Greenfield 833 7 Lvcoming 482 6 Charlotte 479 2 — Redstone 781 15 Bald Eagle 375 St. Albans 412 2 4524 80 Brownsville & Union 322 38 4851 150 NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. and PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. New-London District. Stanstead New-London 283 10 St. Francis 180 _ Delaware District. Salem 869 72 New-London Cambridge 791 59'2 circuit 963 48 2688 2 Dorchester 863 586 8253 376 Springfield 80 New-Hampshire DisL. Somerset 718 474 Schuylkill District. Tolland 390 2 Ports mouth 195 1 Annamessex 770 5.'>3 Philadelphia- Pomfret 355 8 Newmnrket Accomack 904 4(10 St/Georgc's 1770 53 Needham 434 and Kings Snow Hill 661 702 145 Union 445 Mansfield and ton Lewistown 886 365 St. John's 280 Somerset 432 Poplin 324 Milford 930 474 Rhode Island 181 Rochester 250 . Kensington 143 Bristol 516 17 Bristol and Rochester 6573 411b' Dauphin 443 8 Warren 406 24 circuit New-Jersey District. 119 Lancaster 775 17 Providence 283 39 Tuftonboro' Burlington 641 115 130 Chester 784 88 Warwick 142 Sandwich Trenton city 264 3 209 Wilmington 325 70 Ashuumham 359 4 Pembroke Asbury 531 14 . Bridgewater 195 Sussex 528 2 137 5511 253 4308 135 Canaan Hamburg 405 Boston District. Landaff 633 Chesapeake District. Bergen 590 17 Marblehead 107 Lancaster 300 Newark 124 13 Smyrna 834 506 Lynn Com Salisbury 150 1 Essex and Dover 1041 541 mon 190 • Staten Island 772 30 Caroline 88 1 230 Wood End 140 2787. 2 New-Bruns Talbot 977 710 Maiden 265 1 Portland District wick 20 2 Queen Ann's: 943 784 Boston 462 38 Portland 192 3 Trenton cir. 484 37 Kent 484 279 Charlestown 91 3 Scarborough 209 Freehold 494 21 Cecil 976 319 Scituate and Arundell 162 New-Mills 694 19 Rock Run 98 Dorchester 191 1 Buxton 193 . Gloucester 884 9 Wellfleet 555 Gray 131 i Cumberland 953 23 6234 3459 Harwich and Poland 369 NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. Barnstable 198 Bethel 144 Falmouth and Livermore 462 New- York District. 231 2 Petersburg Sandwich 242 3 Readfield 280 New-York 2094 01 Pittsfield 510 4 Nantucket 307 21 Durham 270 1 New-Rochelle545 43 Otis 27 Vineyard 108 5 Conway 221 1 Croton 516 26 Chatham ancl New-Bedford 177 30 Courtlandt 749 17 Hudson 795 3 5 240 7 — Stamford 3233 102 Kennebeck District. 75 26 Jamaica 541 2958 Vermont District Industry 312 Suffolk 15 397 New-Haven t District. Wethersfield 335 Norridge 6 Brooklyn 210 Dutchess and Unity 296 wock 212 Amenia 711 40 Barnard 368 Unity 353 5292 250 Goshen 432 1 Vershire 270 Hallowell 425 Rhrnebeck District. Burlington 384 2 Barre 482 Pitts town 310 Rhinebeck 220 10 Wethers- Athens 232 1 Bristol 126 1 Salisbury 373 4 field 110 Danville 221 1 Union 192 . Granville 520 2 Middletown 177 10 Lyndon 181 Hamden 370 Leyden 276 1 Durham 500 4 Craftsbury 123 Exeter- 94 1 366 Minutes for 1821.

Whites. Col. Whites.'Col. Whites. Col. Total. Bath and Penobscot 274 New-England Conference 19402 248 19650 Phippsburg 125 Columbia 52 Genesoe Conference 25355 112 25467 St. Croix 199 2519 2 Vine! Haven 75 Total 239087 42059 261146 Thomastown 198 Total last year *259890 Penobscot District. Orrington 436 1234 Increase this year 21230 Travelling Preachers 977. GENESEE CONFERENCE. Quest. 15. Where are the preachers sta Oneida District. Genesee District. tioned this year ? Westmore Bloomfield 615 OHIO CONFERENCE. land 580 Caledonia 345 Western 002 Sweden 470 Martin Ruter, book agent at Cincinnati. Litchfield 467 ,Rid

Brush Creek, Burroughs Westlake, Moses Arkansas Dist. William Stephenson, Hinkle, jr. P. Elder. Strait Creek, William Crawford. « Peecon Point, Washington Orr. Delaware, James Murray. • Hot Springs, Henry Stevenson. Lebanon Dist. Jas. B. Finley, P. Elder. Mount Prairie, Gilbert Clark. White Oak, William Page, Leroy Sworm- Arkansas, William Townsend. stedt. /. Walker, missionary. Milford, John C. Brook, Thomas L. Hitt. KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. Union, John Strange, J. P. Taylor. Kenhawa Dist. John Brown, P. Elder. Piqna, Wm. Westlake, Wm. Simmons. Middle Island, Milton Jameson. Mad River, Rob't W. Finley, A. M'Lean. Big Kenhawa, Francis Wilson, Samuel Paint, Samuel D. Davidson. Hindman. ' London, Zacariah Connel, James Smith. Greenbrier, Samuel. Montgomery, Amos Detroit, John P. Kent. Smith. Indian mission, Moses Hinkle, sen. Monroe, Jacob L. Bromwell, James Miami Dist. Walter Griffith, P. Elder. Avis. Cincinnati, ./. Collins. Guyandotte, David Dyke, Josiah Brow- Greenville, Benjamin Lawrence. der. Oxford, Samuel Baker, Wm. H. Raper. Little Sandy, Isaac Collord, Isaac Rey Whitewater, James Jones. nolds, J. M. Reynolds. Miami, Moses Crume, Arthur W. Elliott. Little Kenhawa, Benjamin T. Crouch, Lawrenceburg, J. P. Durbio, Jas. Collord. Elisha Simmons. Madison, A. Wiley, William P. Quinn. Kentucky Dist. Alexander Cummins, Hamilton and Rossville, Henry Baker. P. Elder. MISSOURI CONFERENCE. Newport, William Holman. Indiana Dist. tffamV Hamilton, P. Elder. Licking, John Evans. Charleston, Calvin Ruter, Wm. Cravens. Mount Sterling, John R. Keach, Absalom Blue River, John Scripps, Samuel Glaize. Hunt. Blootnington, David Chamberlin. Lexington and Georgetown, Henry Vincennes, Job M. Baker MTJaniel, William Stribling. Patoka, Elias Stone. Limestone, John Ray, Joseph I). Farrow. Ohio, John Wallace. Fleming, Josiah Whitaker, John Kinney. Mount Sterling, George V. Hester. Lexington circuit, Samuel Demint, N. Corydon, John Sahrader. Harris, E. Stevenson. Illinois Dist. David Sharp, P. Elder. Hinkstone, Francis Landrum, J. Blair. Illinois circuit, Alexander M'Allister. Maysville, Burwell Spurlock. Okaw, Hackuliah Vredenburgh. Salt River Dist. Jonathan Stamper, Cash River, Francis Moore. P. Elder. Wabash, Thomas Davis. Cumberland, Aquila Sampson, Henry Mount Carmel, J. Stewart. Gregg. Sangamo, James Simms. Madison, William Martin, Henry B. Bas- Shoal Creek, Josiah Patterson. com. Cafe Girardeau Dist. Thomas Wright, Danville, John Watson, Allen B. Dil- P. Elder.. lard. Bellevue, John Harris. Salt River, John Denbam, Wm. Young. Saline and St. Francis, Samuel Bassett. Shelby, John Brown, Elisha Simmons. Spring River, Isaac Brookfield. Jefferson, William Adams, James G. White River, William W. Redman. Leach, Cape Girardeau, Philip Davis. Franklin, David Gray. New-Madrid, Jesse Haile. Louisville, Missouri Dist. S. H. Thompson, P.Elder. Barnabas M'Henry has no station this St. Louis, Isaac N. Piggott. year. Gasconade, John M'Cord. Green River Dist. 'Marcus Lindsey, Missouri, William L. Hawley. P. Elder. Buffalo, William Medford. Breckenridge, William Allison. Cedar Creek, James Scott. Hartford, James Porter. Boonslick, to be supplied. Henderson, Martin Flint, Edward Ash Lamoine, Levin Green. ley. 368 Minutes for 1821.

Livingston, Joshua Butc/ier, jun., Allen Little River, Abm. Still, Wiley B. Peek. Elliott. Knox, David Adams, Jesse Cunningham, Hopkinsville, Andrew Monroe. sup. Christian, Peter Cartwright, William Knoxville and Greenville, . M'Reynolds. Hiwassee, Thomas Payne. Dover circuit, Benj. Peeples, H. Holland. Holston Dist. John Tevis, P. Elder. Dixon, John Brown. Lee, James Witton. Red River, John Johnson, Wm. Peter. Clinch, Samuel Patton. Tazewell, John Bradfield. Cumberland Dist. Charles Holliday, P. Elder. New-River, Ashe, John Bowman. Somerset, Cheslea Cole. Abingdon, Ancil Richardson. Wayne, Simon Peter. Holston, William S. Manson, William P. Goose Creek, Richard Corwine. Kendrick. Fountain Head, S. C. V. Benj. Gillespie, Ekin. A. Drake. Carter's Valley, George Missionaries to that part of Jackson's Bowling Green, Benjamin Malone, sup., embraced in the states of Ken George Lock. purchase Tennessee, Hezekiah Holland Barren, William Gum, Luke P. Allen. tucky and and Lewis Garrett. Green River, Geo. Taylor, John Daver. Roaring River, Blatchley C. Wood. MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. Louisiana Dist. AsMey Hewitt, P. Elder. TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. Washataw, Ashley Hewitt. Nashville Dist. Thomas L. Douglass, Rapids, Thomas Owens. P. Elder. Attakapas, Daniel De Vinne. Nashville, Hartwell H. Brown. Mississippi Dist. John Lane, P. Elder Lebanon, Sterling C. Brown, William B. Natchez circuit, William •Winans. Carpenter. Claiborne, John Seaton. Fork, William Jacob Sul Cany Allgood, Wilkinson, Ebenezer Hearn. livan.

Am it, Miles Harper. Franklin and Columbia, Thomas Madden. Pearl River, John Booth. Murfreesborough and Shelbyville, Robert Payne. Alabama Dist. Thos. Griffin, P. Elder. Buffalo, Moses Smith, Elias Tidwell. Whitesand, Henry P. Cook. Stone's River, John Brookes, Joseph B. Chickasawhay, Wiley Ledbetter. Wyms. Tombeckbee, Meredith Renneau. Nashville circuit, Samuel Harwell, Rich Cocknaker, Thomas Clinton. ard W. Morris. Alabama, Nicholas M'Intyre. Duck River, Elijah Kirkman, Andrew J. Cahawba Dist. Thomas Nixon, P. Elder. Crawford. Cahawba circuit, Thomas Nixon. Tennessee Dist. Thomas D. Porter, Franklin, Nicholas T. Snead. P. Elder. Marion, Pond Springs, Joseph Williams. Tuscaloosa,* Jackson, SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. Flint, Thomas Stringfield, Wm. M'Ma- Athens Dist. Isaac Smith, P. Elder. hon, sup. Appalachee, Reuben Tucker, Jesse Sin Limestone, Lewis S. Marshall. clair. Bedford, John Smith, Benj. P. Seawell. Broad River, Thomas A. Smith, Daniel Richland, Joshua Butcher, Ellison Tay G. M'Daniel. lor. Grove, David Garrison. Shoals, John Craigg, Alson J. Watters. Alcovi, Thos. Samford, Nicholas Rhodes. James Bellah, Robert French-Broad Dist. James Axley, Sparta, Flournoy. Creek, Bond P. Elder. Cedar Allen Turner, English. Nollichuckie, James Cumming. * We have found many difficulties in the pre Powell's Valley, Jesse Green. ceding Conferences, as, in some instances, the Tennessee Valley, Obadiah Freeman, Ro same names were repeated in two or more places in the manuscript, and there was no mark to dis bert Hopper. tinguish who were the elders. We have done Sequachey Valley, John Kesterson, John the best we could, without, however, having Paulsaul. reason to presume the Minutes are correct. Minutes for 1821. 369 OcoyEB Dist. James Norton, P. Elder. Rocky River, Elias Sinclair, John Rey Washington, Andrew Hammill. nolds. Big Oakmulgee, Benjamin Gordon, John Sugar Creek, Jacob Hill Robertson. Lincoln, J. L. Jerry, Noah Laney. Little Oakmulgee, James Danwody. Union, Thomas Craven. Ohoopee and Darien, Joaiah Evans, J. N. Upper French-Broad, Archibald Purify. Glenn. Black Mountain, Malcom M'Pherson. Lappahee, John I. Triggs. Morganton, Thomas Mabry. Sat ilia and St. Mary's, William Hankins, Missionaries to the Mississippi Confer A. Norman. ence, Zech. Williams, Barnabas Pipkin. Missionary in South Carolina Ooeechee Dist. Samuel K. Hodges, Confer P. Elder. ence, and to the Indians, William Capers. Augusta, James O. Andrew. VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. Washington, Charles Betts. Norfolk Dist. Ethelbert Drake, P. Elder. Louisville, George Hill. Norfolk, Hezekiah G. Leigh. Warren, Thomas Darley, Thos. Thweat. Portsmouth, Ira Parker. Little River, Whitman C. Hill, David Princess Ann, Isaiah Harris, Archibald Hilliard. Brundley. Saluda, James Dannelly, Barnet Smith. Bertie, Joakim Lane. Abbeville, Robert L. Edwards. Camden and Edenton, Allen R. Bernard. Keewee, John B. Chappie. Sussex, Thomas Mann, Thacker Muire. Suffolk, Benjamin Devany. Edisto Dist. Lewis Myers\ P. Elder. James River Dist. Edward Cannon, Savannah, John Howard. ' Black Swamp, Christian G. Hill. P. Elder. Orangeburg, J. Taylor, T. Gardner, J. Richmond, Peyton Anderson. Murrow, sup. Williamsburg, Francis A. Ward. Cypress, Travis Owen, Henry Seagrest. Gloucester, Enoch Johnson, Wm. East Congaree, John L. Greaves. wood. Cooper River, Robert Adams. Hanover, Russell B. Foster, George Charleston, William M. Kennedy, Daniel Harper. Hales, Hall, Wm. Kennedy, Asbury Morgan. Columbia, John William Leigh. Culpepper, Henry Peyton, John W. Broad River Dist. Daniel Asbury, M'Kirby. P. Elder. Amherst, Thomas Howard. Reedy River, Elisha Calloway. Meherrih Dist. John Early, P. Elder. Enoree, Coleman Carlisle, R. T. Ward. Greenville, William Jones. Newbury, John Mullenix, David Riley. Mecklenburg, Matthew M. Dance. Sandy River, Zaccheus Dowling, Elijah Bedford, George A. Bain. Sinclair. Buckingham, Samuel Hunter. Wateree, Thomas A. Rosamond. Petersburg, George M. Anderson. Santee, Anderson Ray. Amelia, Waddell Johnson, Thomas B. Camden, Tillman Snead. Humphrey. Columbia, Henry Bass. Cumberland, John F. Andrew. Pee Dee Dist. Joseph Travis, P. Elder. Brunswick, Joshua Featherstone, Tho Lynoh's Creek, John Dix. mas R. Brame. Little Pee Dee, John Boswell, J. H. Lynchburg, George W. Charlton. Tradewell. Roanoke Dist. C. S. Mooring, P. Elder. Black River, Matthew Raiford. Roanoke, James Smith. Brunswick, D. F. Christenberry, B. L. Washington, Swain Swift. Hoskins. Swift Creek, Miles Nash. Bladen, Nicholas Ware. Mattamuskeet, Henry Alley. Deep River, Thomas L. Winn. Banks and Islands, Samuel Harrell. Georgetown, Nicholas Talley. Albemarle Sound, Charles L. Cooley. Fayetteville, Benjamin Rhodes. Neuse Dist. William Compton, P. Elder. Wilmington, Samuel Dunwody. Tar River, Jacob Hill, Thomas Crowder. Catawba Dist. Jesse Richardson, Haw River, Peter Doub. P. Elder. Raleigh city, John F. Wright. Montgomery, Hugh Hammill, L. Stancel. Raleigh circuit, Curtis Hooks. 24 370 Minutes for 1821.

Black River, Mann Dutton. Short Creek, Henry Furlong. New-River, Thompson Garrard. Ohio, David Stevens, French S. Evans. Beaufort and Straits, Robert Wilkerson. Washington, George Brown. Newbern, Amos C. Treadway. Monongahela, Thos. Jamison, Wm. Hank. Yadkin Dist. James Patterson, P. Elder. Harrison, John Watson, Asby Pool. Franklin, Lewis Kimball, Moses Brock. Lewis, Rich'd Armstrong, Wm. Chapman. Yadkin, Exum Chapman. Pittsbubo Dist. Thornton Fleming, Iredell, John Thompson. P. Elder. Salisbury, William Harris. Connolsville, John West, Norval Wilson. Guilford, James Reid. Somerset, John Connelly. Caswell, William H. Starr. Mahoning, John Tanyhill. Granville, George C. Chesley. Pittsburg, John Bear, Thomas J. Dorsey. Amos Barnes, Thomas Beads. BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Greenfield, Uniontown and Brownsville, Wm. Barnes. Baltimore Dist. Stephen George Roszel, Redstone, Henry Baker, William Brande- P. Elder. berry. Baltimore city, /. M'Cann, R. Tydings, Northumberland Dist. Henry Smith, A. Shinn, sup., S. Davis. P. Elder. Fell's Point, Eli Henkle, Jacob Lurk in. Northumberland, Marmaduke Pierce, John Baltimore cir., Job Guest, George Wells. Thomas. Severn, Frederick Stier, Bazil Barry. Shamokin, John Rhodes. Annapolis, John Emory. ' Robert Minshall, Jacob R. Calvert, William Builer, Charles Young. Lycoming, Prince George's, Robert S. Vinton, Sa Shepperd. Bald Eagle, Abraham Dawson, Thomas muel Ellis, S. Chancy. M'Gee. Foundry, William Hi/land. Auckwick, Robert Caddon, Wm. C. Pool. Georgetown, Beverly Waugh. Juniatta, Israel Cook. Montgomery, Gideon Lamng, John G. David Steel, Mordecai Watt. Huntingdon, Barry. Potomac Dist. Christopher Frye, Carlisle Dist. John Davis, P. Elder. P. Elder. Carlisle. John Childs, Caleb Reynolds. Alexandria, Robert Burch. York, William Prettyman. Hartford, James Reid, Nathaniel B. Mills. Ebenezer, John M'Elfresh Fairfax, Richard M'Allister. Great Falls, Jas. Paynter, Joseph Rowen. Loudoun, John C. French, Dennis B. Frederick circuit, Alfred Griffith, Dennis Darsey. Battee. Stafford, Tobias Riley, Charles Cook. Fredericktown, Richard Hunt. Fredericksburg, Thomas C. Thornton. Chambersburg circuit, Edward Matthews, Westmoreland, Yelverton Peyton, Charles P. Buckingham. A. Davis. Chambersburg, Andrew Hemphill. Lancaster, Sam'l Cushing, Sam'l Eryson. Bedford, Bennett Dowler, Barton Be Forrest. Wihchester Dist. Lewis R. Fechtig, P. Elder. PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. Winchester, Wm. Monroe, James Moore, Schuylkill Dist. James Bateman, William Hamilton. P. Elder. Rockingham, Gerard Morgan, Charles Philadelphia — B. Tippitt. St. George's, James Smith, Ezekiel Staunton, James Sewell. Cooper, sup., Thomas Miller. Bottetourt, Thomas Kennerly. Union, Thomas Burch. Pendleton, James Watts, Thomas M. St. John's, Joseph Rusting. Hudson. Kensington, William Smith. Sooth Branch, Robert Boyd, Jas. Sansom. Bristol, Manning Force, Phinehas Price. Alleghany, James Reily, John Miller. Dauphin, Jacob Gruber, Joseph Carey. Berkley, Joseph Frye, James Taylor. Lancaster, John Woolson, Henry G Jefferson, Jas. M. Hanson, Edward Oram. King. Mononoahela Dist. Daniel Hitt, Chester, David Bartine, Thomas Davis. P. Elder. Wilmington and Newcastle, Lawrence East Wheeling, Jesse Lee, Sam'l Clarke. Lawrenson. U* Minutes for 1821. 371

Chesapeake Dist. William Bishop, New-Rochelle, Elijah Woolsey, William P. Elder. Jewett, Robert Seney. Smyrna, William Rider, Joseph Osborne. CrOtoa,Sam'l Bushnell, Noble W. Thomas. Dover, Alward White, William Torbert. Courtlandt, Gilbert Lyon, John J. Mat Caroline, William Williams. thias. Talbot, James Smith, of Delaware, Ed Stamford, John B. Matthias. ward Stevenson. Jamaica, Samuel Cochran, Samuel D. Queen Ann's, George Woolley, James Ferguson. Smith, of Baltimore, sup., W. Wright. Suffolk, Reuben Harris, Eli Denniston. Kent, Thomas Smith, James Ridgaway. . Brooklyn, Lewis Pease. Cecil, Samuel J. Griffith, Daniel Fidler. Rhinebeck Dist. Henry Stead, P. Elder. Delaware Dist. Henry Boehm, P. Elder. Rhinebeck, Jesse Hunt. Cambridge, Charles Reed, John Tally. Salisbury, Coles Carpenter, Lucius Bald Dorchester, William Quinn, William win. Ross. Granville, Andrew M'Cain, Sam'l Eigh- Somerset, James Moore, Wm. Lummis. mey. Annamessex, David Dailey, Samuel Leyden, Henry Hatfield. Grace. Petersburg, Billy HibbarJ. Accomack, Joseph Aydelott, John Bayrie. Pittsfield, Theodosius Clark, David Mil Snow Hill, Avra Melvin, Wm. Allen. ler. Lewistown, Edward Page. Otis, Timothy Benedict, sup. Milford, John Smith, Solomon Higgins. Chatham and Hudson, William Anson, Jersey Dist. Lawrence M'Combs, Gershom Pierce, H. Weston. P. Elder. New-Haven Dist. Samuel Merwm, Burlington, John Potts, Benj. Collins. P. Elder. Trenton city and Bloomsbury, Solomon Dutchess. James M. Smith, John Rey Sharp. nolds. Asbury, John Creamer, Daniel Parish. Amenia, Daniel Brayton. Sussex, Watters Burrows, Samuel Budd. Goshen, Ebenezer Washburn, Smith Day Hamburg, James Aiken, John Davis. ton, John Nixon. Bergen, George Banghart, William Leon Burlington, Datus Ensign, Julius Field. ard. Wethersfield, William S. Pease. Newark, Stephen Martindale. Middletown, Phinehas Cook. Essex and Staten Island, Thomas Neall, Durham, Josiah Bowen, John Luckey. Samuel S. Kennard. New-Haven, William Thachcr. Elizabethtown, Joseph Lybrand. Stratford, Bela Smith, James Coleman. New-Brunswick, Charles Pitman. Reading, Laban Clark, Aaron Hunt. Trenton circuit, Sylvester G. Hill, Eli- Saratoga Dist. Daniel Ostrander, phalet H. Reed. P. Elder. Freehold, David Best, Bartholomew Montgomery, Samuel Howe, John Clark. Weed. Saratoga, Jacob Hall, Noah Levings. New-Mills, John Walker, James Long. Pittstown, Sherman Minor, John Lovejoy. Gloucester, Edward Stout, Richard W. Troy, Benjamin Griffen. Petherbridge. Schenectady, Samuel Luckey. Cumberland, John Finley, John Collins. Berne, formerly Schenectady circuit, Salem, Thos. Ware, Samuel J. Cox. Friend Draper, Orin Pier. NEW- YORK' CONFERENCE. Cambridge, David Lewis, George Smith. Nathan Bangs and Thomas Mason, book Warren, Cyrus Silliman. agents. Champlain Dist. John B. Stratten, John M. Smith, principal of the Wes- P. Elder. leyan Seminary. Brandon, Samuel Draper, Moses Amadon, Freeborn Garrettson, Conference mis J. Beeman, sup. sionary. Middlebury, Ebenezer Brown. New- York Dist. Peter P. Sandford, Charlotte, James Youngs, Sam'l Covel. P. Elder. St. Albans, Almond Dunbar, Jas. Covel. New- York, Joshua Soule, Elijah Hebard, Stowe, Phinehas Doan, Ibri Cannon. M. Richardson, William Ross, Heman Grand Isle, Eli Barnett. Bangs, J. Summerfield. Chazy, Buel Goodsell. 372 Minutes for 1821.

Plattsburg, Harvey De Wolf, Cyrus Vershire, Joel Steele, John F. Adams. Prindle. Barre, Abraham Holway. Ticonderoga, Seymour Landon. Athens, Hudson River Dist. Eben Smith, Unity, John Lord. P. Elder. Danville, Phinehas Crandell. Albany, Phinehas Rice. Lyndon, Benjamin R. Hoyt. Samuel Norris. Coeymans, Daniel I. Wright, John D. Craftsbury, Moriarty. New-Hampshire Dist. Jacob Sanborn, Sharon, James Quinlin, Friend W. Smith. P. Elder. Jefferson, John Bangs, Henry Eames. •Portsmouth, Enoch Mudge. Delaware, John Finnigan, Roswell Kelly. Salisbury and Newmarket, Joseph A. Newburg circuit, Arnold Scholefield, Merrill, B. R. Lewis. Smith Arnold. Poplin, David Culver. Newburg, Tobias Spicer. Rochester, Damon Young. New-Windsor, Nicholas White, George Pembroke, James P. Hervey. Coles. Tuftonborough and Sandwich, Joseph Kel- Sullivan, Nathan Rice, John B. Tyler, lam, Ezra S. Goodwin. /. Candee. Bridgewater, Wallace Lark. NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Canaan, Ezra Kellogg. Landaff, /. A. Scarrdl, William M'Coy. Boston Dist. Elijah Hedding, P. Elder. Lancaster, Charles Baker. George Pickering, missionary. Boston, S. W. Wilson, Ephraim Wiley. Portland Dist. Elisha Streeter, P. Elder. Charlestown, Daniel Fillmore. Portland, Darid Kilbourn. Maiden, Leonard Frost. Scarborough and Arundell, Asa Heath, Lynn Common, Phinehas Peck. James Jaques. Wood End, Timothy Merritt. Buxton, Gillman Moody. Marblehead, Jotham Horton. Gray, Caleb Fogg. Scituate, Isaac Jennison, Frederick Up- Poland, James L. Bishop. ham. Bethel, Elijah Spear. Livermore, Sandwich and Harwich, Edward T. Tay Philip Munger. lor, Benjamin Brown. Readfield, Aaron Fuller. Wellfleet, Edward Hyde, Heman Perry. Durham, Benj. Burnham, Daniel Went- Falmouth, Nathan Paine. worth, sup. • Vineyard, John Adams. Conway, Job Pratt. Nantucket, Asa Kent. Kennebeck Dist. David Hutchinson, Bedford, Jesse Fillmore. P. Elder. Fairhaven, Solomon Sias. Industry, John Atwell. New-London Dist. Erastus Otis, Norridgewock, Henry True. P. Elder. Unity, Hallowell, New-London, V. R. Osborn. Charles Virgin. Pitts town, Springfield, Moses Fifield. Tolland, Ebenezer Blake, Daniel Dor Georgetown, Gorham Greely. Bristol, chester. True Page. Union, John Lewis. Pomfret, Joseph Ireson. Norwich, Lewis Bates. Hampden, Oliver Beale. Exeter, Hebron, Leonard Bennett. Peter Burgess. Bath, Sullivan Mansfield, John W. Hardy, Eleazer Steel. Bray. Somerset, Thomas W. Tucker. Fairfield, Stephen Lovel. Rhode Island, Isaac Stoddard. Penobscot Dist. Benj. Jones, P. Elder. Bristol, Isaac Bonney. Orrington, Samuel Baker. Providence, Bartholomew Otheman. Penobscot, Heman Nickerson. Northbridge, John W. M'Kec. Vinalhaven, Samuel Plummer. Warwick, Francis Dane. Thomastown, E. F. Newell. Ashburnham, Ella Dunham. Columbia, John S. Ayer. Needham, Benjamin Hazelton. St. Croix, John Briggs. Vermont Dist. John Lindsey, P. Elder. GENESEE CONFERENCE. Wethersfield, Joshua Rand ell. Ontario Dist. Abner Chase, P. Elder. Barnard, S. B. Haskel. Lyons, James Kelsey, Robert Parker. Minutes for 1821. 373

Ontario, Thomas Wright. Upper Canada Dist. William Case, P. Seneca, Jonathan Huestis, Palmer Ro Elder. berts. Niagara, Isaac Puffer. Lake, Crooked Isaac Grant, John Beg Lyons Creek, Alvin Torry. garly. Ancaster, Daniel Shepardson, John Ry- Catharine, Joseph ATCreary. erson. Prattsburg, Andrew Peck. Long Point, Isaac B. Smith, William H. Canesteo, Dennison Smith, Asa Abel. Williams. Genera and Canandaigua, Loring Grant, Thames, Ezra Adams, Thomas Demarest. Chester V. Adgate. Westminster, James Jackson, George Fer Oneida Dist. George Gary, P. Elder. guson. Westmoreland, Ira Fairbank, Joseph Wil Duffin's Creek, David Yeomans, sup. liams. Young-street, David Culp. Rome, Ralph Lanning. York, and mission to the new settlements, Western, Alanson Gifford. U. C, Fitch Reed, KenethM. K. Smith, Litchfield, Goodwin Stoddard. missionaries. Otsego, Dan Barnes. Herkimer, Henry Peck, James Brown. Bav Quintie Dist. Henry Ryan, P. Elder. Canajoharie, Charles Northrop. Bay Quintie, Calvin N. Flint, Franklin Metcalf. Paris, George Peck. Utica, Benjamin G. Paddock. Smith's Creek, Thomas Madden. Cooperstown, Dana Fox. Belleville, Robert Jeffers. Hallowell, Samuel Helton, James Wilson. Chenango Dist. Charles Giles, P. Elder. Wyatt Chamberlayne, George John Arnold, Augusta, Chenango, Timothy Good Farr. win. Cornwall, Philander Smith. Lebanon, Zenas Jones. Ottawa, David C. Spore. Pompey, Orin Doolittie. Rideau, William Jones. Courtlandt, Ebenezer Doolittie, William Perth, James G. Peale. Cameron. Maniius, George Harmon. Genesee Dist. Gideon Draper, P. Elder. Marcellus, Samuel Bebins. Sweden, James L. Lent. Scipio, Manly Tooker, Seth Maitison, sup. Batavia, James Gilmore, Jasper Bennett. Auburn, Joseph Baker. Caledonia, Micah Seager. Cayuga, George W. Densmore, Russell Rusliford, Cyrus Story. Downing, Edmund O'Fling. Genesee, William Snow. Ithaca, Elias Bowen. Bloomfield, Andrew Prindell. Black River Dist. Renaldo M. Everts, Rochester, Reubin A. Ailworth. P. Elder. Moscow, Benajah Williams. Black River, Benjamin Dighton. Erie Dist. Glezen Fillmore, P. Elder. Malone, Truman Dixon. French Creek, Zacariah Paddock. St. Lawrence, Ezra Healy, Orin Foot. Lake, Nathaniel Reeder, Ira Brownson. Indian River, James Hazen. Chetauque, Parker Buel. Le Roy, Israel Chamberlayne, Josiali Kies. Eden, Philctus Parkus, Jeter Foster, sup. Watertqwn, John Dempster. Buffalo, James Hall. Sandy Creek, Enoch Barnes. Ridgeway, John Summerville, Elijah Oswego, Chandly Lambert. Board man. Victory, William W. Rundall. Clarence, Nathan B. Dodson. Susquehannah Dist. George Lane, P. Olean, Richard Wright. Elder. 16. Where and token shall our Wyoming, Elisha Bebins, John Sayre. Quest. Canaan, John D. Gilbert. next Conferences be held ? Bridgewater^o*Aua Rogers, Hiram Moore. 1. Ohio Conference, at Lebanon, Sept. Broome, John Griffin, James Hodge. 6, 1821. Spencer, Horace Agard, Asa Orcott. 2. Kentucky Conference, at Lexington, Tioga, Hiram G. Warner, Caleb Ken September 18, 1821. dall, jr. 3. Missouri Conference, at M'Kendree's Wyalusing, Asa Cummings, Gaylord Judd. Chapel, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Octo Caroline, Benjamin Landon. ber 17, 1821. 374 Minutes for 1822.

4. Tennessee Conference, at Norrels, 8. Baltimore Conference, Baltimore, in Bedford county, Tennessee, Novem April 19, 1822. ber 7, 1821. 9. Philadelphia Conference, Philadel 5. Mississippi Conference, at Washing phia, May 9, 1822. ton, Adams county, Mississippi, Decem 10. New- York Conference, New- York, ber 7, 1831. May 29, 1822. 6. South Carolina Conference, at Au 11. New-England Conference, at Bath, gusta, Georgia, Feb. 21, 1822. Maine, June 29, 1822. 7. Virginia Conference, at Newbem, 12. Genesee Conference, at Vienna, North Carolina, March 20, 1822. Ontario county, N. Y., July 24, 1822.

MINUTES TAKEN AT THE SEVERAL ANNUAL CONFERENCES OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

FOR THE TEAR 1822.

Quest. 1. Who are admitted on trial? MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. OHIO CONFERENCE. William Alexander, Edmund Pearson Armstrong I. Blackburn, Eugene V. Le- Whitefield James Hughs, T. Donohoo, vert— 4. Richard Brandriff, George M. Mealy, John SOUTH CAROLINA Pardo, John Walker, William Tipton, CONFERENCE. Wm. H. Collins, Robert Dobbins, Henry Mark Westmoreland, Abner P. Manly, S. Fernandes, Piatt B. Morey — 11. Peyton L. Wade, Josiah Freeman, Wm. Parks, Gideon Mason, Morgan Tarrentine, KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. John Bigby, George White, John Corring- Harvey Sawyers, Peter Akers, Simon ton, Edward J. Fitzgerald, Wm. Knight, L. Booker, John James, James Ross, Henry W.Ledbetter, Peyton Greaves — 14. George W. Robbins, Richard D. Neale, VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. James Browder, Laban Hughey, Daniel William D. Good. Overton Bernard, Tivis, William Chambers, John Power, H. Joshua Leigh, David Ellis, Anson Shad- William Farrow, Stephen Harber, Obadiah wick, John Craig, James Morrison —7, Harber, Green Malone, Thomas Joyner, Thomas Attleberry, Lewis Parker, John BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Lambeth, Caleb Crane—21. Philip D. Lipsicum, Henry Slicer, John N. Steward, John B. West, John L. Gib MISSOURI CONFERENCE. bons, William M'Dowel, Elias Bruin — 7. Parham Randle, James Bankson, John Blasdcl, Anthony W. Cassed, James PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. Keyte, James Armstrong, Jas. L. Thomp James M'Lawrin, Isaac Winner, Jesse son, Abraham Epler, Dennis Willey, John Thompson, Philip Dixon, Joseph Hold- Glanville, Ebenezer Webster — 11. rich, James B. Ayres, John Henry —7. TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. H. Humphreys, Bradley Sillick, Darius Rufus Leadbetter, Jonas Belodte, John Stephens, John C. Green, Horace Bart- Seay, Jacob Hearn, Thomas A. Young, lett, Elijah Crane, Philo Ferris, Hiram German Baker, Finch Scruggs, James G. Meeker, Jesse Pomroy, Charles H. Spear, Abraham Overall, Nathaniel Pomroy, Stewart, Salmon Stebbins— R. Jarratt, Absalom Harris, John Raines, Quartus 12. John Kelly, John Rice, Robert Boyd, NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Benjamin T. Liddon, Richard Neely, Samuel G. Atkins, Aaron D. Sargeant, Francis R. Cheasham, John Patton, Na Thomas Smith, Eliphalet Case, Henry than L. Norrell, James Edmiston, William Bulfinch, John N. Maffitt, Joseph Allen, Patton, Thomas J. Brown, George Horn, Hezekiah Thatcher, Allen Barnes, Elisha David B. Cumming, Peter Burum —26. Frink, Ephraim K. Avery, Wanton Case,