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 1823. 393

Rideau, Ezra Heely. Quest. 16. Where and when shall our next Perth, Franklin Metcalf. Conferences be held ? Kingston, Philander Smith. 1. Ohio Conference, at Marietta, Sep Genesee Dist. Goodwin Stoddard, tember 5, 1822. P. Elder. 2. Kentucky Conference, at Lexing Sweden, James S. Lent. ton, September 25, 1822. Batavia, John Arnold, Asa Orcott. 3. Missouri Conference, at St. Louis, Caledonia, Micah Seager, Jasper Ben October 24, 1822. nett. 4. Tennessee Conference, at Ebenezer, Rushford, James Hazen, Philetus Parkus. Green county, near Greenville, East Ten Olean, Warren Bannister. nessee, October 16, 1822. Geneseo, James Gtimore, John Beg 5. Mississippi Conference, at John garly- M'Ray's, Chickasawhay River, Decem BloomfieM, Cyrus Story, Andrew Prindel. ber 5, 1822. Rochester, Elisha House. 6. South Carolina Conference, Savan Orangeville, Wm. Jones, John Casert. nah, Ga., February 20, 1823. Elba, Jonathan E. Davis. 7. Virginia Conference, at Lynchburg, Norwich, James B. Roach. March 19, 1823. Erie Dist. Gleason Fillmore, P. Elder. 8. Baltimore Conference, at Baltimore, French Creek, Josiah Kies. April 17, 1823. Lake, Richard Wright, Sylvester Cary. 9. Philadelphia Conference, at Phila Chetauque, Parker Buel. delphia, May 8, 1823. Eden, Ira Branson, John Copeland. 10. New- York Conference, at Malta, Buffalo, Zechariah Paddock. or Balston, East Line, May 28, 1823. Ridgeway, Isqic Puffer. 11. New-England Conference, at Pro Clarence, Elijah Boardman. vidence, Rhode Island, June 12, 1823. North East, Andrew Peck. 12. Genesee Conference, at Westmore Loring Grant, Conference missionary. land, Oneida county, N. Y., July 15, 1823.

MINUTES TAKEN AT THE SEVERAL ANNUAL CONFERENCES OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, FOB THE YEAR 1823.

Quest. 1. Who are admitted on trial t TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. OHIO CONFERENCE. Wiley Leadbetter, Josiah Smith, John H. Holland, Wm. Johnson, Francis Owen, Billings O. Plimpton, John Crawford, S. Clardy, Carl, Albert G. Richardson, Orin Gilmore, So Benjamin Joseph Loren zo D. Overall, Felix Parker, Luellen lomon Maneer, John Jean, Aaron Wood, Jones, Jones, John Cannon, Jas. James Rowe, George Gatch, James C. Ephraim D. Harris, William Conn, Isaac W. Sul Taylor, Nehemiah B. Griffith, Levi livan, William Millin, Abner Bowen, White, William Westlake— 13. Coleman Harwell, James W. Allen, Jas. KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. Y. Crawford, John W. Witten, William Edwin Ray, John P. Finley, Jonathan Cumming, Isaac Lewis, William Hammet, G. Tucker, James Milligan, Henry W. Arthur M'Clure, Edward T. Perry, Ash Hunt, Uriel Hawe, Major Stanfield, John ley B. Rozzel, Richard F. Jarrett, Nicho Jones, George Stevens—9. las T. Scales, John W. Camp, Thomas MISSOURI CONFERENCE. H. Cannon, Thomas J. Nealy, Thomas Smith, Greenberry Garret, Ambrose F. Samnel Hull, Stephen Beggs, Freder Dreskill, Barton Brown, Josiah Rhoton, ick Leach, Cornelius Ruddle, Lorenzo John White, John Ker— 39. Edwards, John Ingersoll, William Bryant, Thomas Randle, William Smith, William MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. Roberts, John Wood, William Ryan, Gil Marcus Henderson, Jonas Westerland, bert Clark, Isaac N. Piggott — 14. William M. Curtis, Edward Harper, John Minutes for 1823.

G. Lee, Daniel M'Leod, Elijah B. M'Kay Quest. 2. Who remain on trial ? —7. OHIO CONFERENCE. SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. Whitefield Hughes, James T. Donahoo, Alexander F. Edwards, Benj. Crane, Richard Brandriff, George M. Mealy, James Tabor, Philip Groover, Isaac John Pardo, John Walker, William Tip Sewell, Samuel Sewell, M'Oarrell Purifoy; ton, William H. Collins, Henry S. Fer- John Slade, Elisha Askew, Chas. Hardy, nandes, William Crawford — 10. David N. Burkhalter, Gaines, Benjamin KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. Sewell Petty, Patrick N. Maddux, Na Peter Acres, Simon than P. Cook, Simeon B. Abbott, Adam Harvey Sawyers, Wyrick, Green W. Huckabee, Joel W. L. Booker, John James, James Ross, Rohbijis, Richard D. Neal, Townsend — 19. George W. James Browden, Lewis Parker, Laban VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. Hughey, William Chambers, John H. Benjamin W. Ogburn, Benton Field, Power, Obadiah Harber, Green Malone, Bazzel Floyd, William W. White, Chris Thomas Joiner, Thomas Atterberry, Caleb Thomas, topher Jesep Carle, Lavellen Crane, Stephen Harber — 18. Jones, Ephraim Jones, Felix Parker,Wm. MISSOURI CONFERENCE. Hammitt, John Cannon, John Kerr, John Chamberlain, James W. Wittin— 13. David Armstrong, James L. Thompson, James Bankson, BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Isaac Brookfield, John Glanrille, John Joseph White, John Howell, Jesse Blasdell, Anthony W. Cassad, Dennis Chesney, John A. Gera, William L. Gib Willey, Parham Randle, Ebenezer T. son, John Strichler, Dennis M. Parrot, Webster— 11. John Bowen, Francis M'Cartney, Wm. TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. Morgan, Isaac Collins —11. Rufus Leadbetter, Jonas Beloate, John PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. Seay, Jacob Hearn, Thomas A. Young, Wesley W. Wallace, Daniel Lambden, German Baker, Finch Scrugfrs, James G. Samuel Doughty, Matthew Sorin, John H. Speer, Abraham Overall, Nathaniel Ludnum, William A. Wiggins, Levin R. Jarrett, John Rains, John Kelly, John Prettyman — 7. Rice, Robert Boyd, Richard Nealy, Na NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. thaniel L. Norval, William Patton, Thos. Brown, Home, David Robert Travis, Jarvis Z. Nichols, J. George B Cam ming, William Elias Tidwell Richard Seaman, John Kennedy, Wm. Carpenter, M. Willett, Parmele Chamberlin, Elbert -22. Osborn, Stephen L. Stillman, Wesley P. MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. Lake, William Todd, Elisha Dewey, William Alexander, A. 1. Blackburn, Thomas S. Barrett, Bezaleel Howe — 13. Benjamin F. Liddon, Eugene V. LeVert, NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Peyton Greaves, John Patton, Francis R. Cheatham, Edmund Pearson, John R. William Dyer, Warren Emerson, Geo. — Weeks, Henry Mayo, Benjamin Jones, Lambuth 9. William Granville, Stephen Puffer, Bar- SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. zilla Pierce, Caleb D. Rogers, Benjamin Mark Westmoreland, Abner P. Mapley, Paine, Isaac Barker, Hascall Wheelock, Peyton L. Wade, Josiah Freeman, Wm. Silas Frink, Moses Sanderson, Justin Parks, Morgan Turrentine, John Bigby, Amasa Buck, Spaulding, Nathan Howe, John Covington, Edward T. Fitzgerald, John Foster, N. W. Aspenwall, Ezekiel William Knight, Henry W. Leadbetter Robinson, David Richards, William S. —11. Douglass—22. VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. GENESEE CONFERENCE. William D. Goode, Overton Bernard, Johnston, Mark John S. Mitchell, Seth Joshua Leigh, David Ellis, Anson Chad- Philo Young, Barbary, William Griffis, wick, John Craigg, James Morrison, Mann Waldron, Solomon Elias C. Warren, Uriel Dutton—8. Spencer, John Roper, Jacob Pool, Wm. Lull, Joseph Castle, William Ryerson, BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Robert Courson, David Wright— 15. Philip D. Lipsecum, Henry Sheer, Total admitted on trial— 182. John B. West, William M'Dowell, John Minutes for 1823. 395

N. Stuart, John L. Gibbins, French S. mons, William M'Reynolds, Blachly C. Evans — 7. Wood, John W. M'Reynolds, Luke P. PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. Allen, John Denham, Henry Gregg, Isaac Reynolds, James Avis, Francis Wilson, James M'Laurin, Isaac Winner, Jesse Amos Smith — 15. Thompson, Philip Dixon, Joseph Holdich, James B. Ayres, John Henry — 7. MISSOURI CONFERENCE. NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. William Cravens, William W. Redman, H. Humphreys, Bradley Sillick, John Samuel Basset, H. Yredenburg, George — C. Green, Horace Bartlett, Elijah Crane, K. Hester 5. Philo Ferris, Hiram Meeker, Jesse Pome- TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. rov, Charles Pomeroy, Stewart, Quartus John Bradfield, Joseph B. Wynns, Wil Salmon Stebbins, Samuel Covel— 12. liam P. Kendrick, James Cumming, John NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Paulscll,WyleyB.Peck, Andrew J. Craw Samuel G. Atkins, Aaron D. Sargeant, ford, Benjamin P. Sewell, George W. — Thomas Smith, Henry llulfinch, John N. Morris 9. Maffitt, Joseph Allen, Hezekiah Thatcher, MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. Elisha Frink, Ephraim K. Avery, John M. Drake, P. Cook —2. W. Case, William Barstow, Milton Benjamin Henry French, John E. Risley, George Fairbank, SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. James B. Norris, John H. G. Dow, Ros Archibald Purifoy, Joshua N. Glenn, well Putnam, Phineas Ball, James Tem- John H. Robertson, Daniel G. M'Daniel, pleton, Wilder Mark, Daniel L. Fletcher, Elias Sinclair, Elijah Sinclair, John I. Scott, Newell S. Orange Spauiding, David Triggs, Bond English, Malcolm M'Pher- Leslie, Charles D. Cahoon, Abraham son, John Reynolds— 10. Merril, Caleb Dustin, Samuel Kelly, Eze- kiel W. Stickney, Hershel Foster, Wm. VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. Gardner, John Shaw, Nathaniel P. Deve- William Leigh, Samuel Harrol, Thomas reaux, Melville B. Cox, Otis Williams Crowder, T. B. Humphreys, George W. —35. S. Harper — 5. GENESEE CONFERENCE. BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Joseph Gardner, George White, Mark Samuel Clark, Charles A. Davis, Charles Preston, William Slater, Charles Wood, Young, William H. Chapman, Shadrach Sylvester Carey, Jonathan M. Brooks, Chaney, Samuel Brysun, Samuel Ellis, Eli Allen, Ephraim Hall, Alexander Er- Norval Wilson, Thos. M. Hudson, Jacob win, John Parker, John Copeland, Joseph R. Shepherd— 10. Atwood, Morgan Sherman, Sophronius Stocking, Jonathan A. Davis, William PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. Fowler, Isaac Stone, James B. Roach, Samuel S. Kennard, Eliphalet Reed, John Cassert, Roswell Parker, Squire John Bayne, Daniel Parish, Solomon Hig- Chase, Nathaniel Salisbury, James P. gins — 5. Ailworth, John Arcanbrack, Isaac Smith, NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. Orin Foot — 27. Cyrus Prindle, William S. Pease, John Total remaining on trial — 177. Nixon, Eli Denniston, Lucius Baldwin, Quest. 3. Who are admitted into full John Luckey, Friend W. Smith, Roswell connection t Kelley, Julius Field, George Smith— 10. OHIO CONFERENCE. NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Alfred Brunson, Charles Thorn, Chas. Heman Perry, Benjamin Brown, Heman Trescott, Nathan Walker, William J. Nickerson, Gorham Greek, Frederick Kent, William Simmons, James Collord, I'phain, Stephen Lovell, Ella Dunham — 7. James Jonos, Daniel Limerick, Henry GENESEE Knapp, Zarah Coston, James Havens, CONFERENCE. Andrew Kenier — 13. Franklin Metcalf, Samuel Bebins, Deni- son Smith, Asa Abel, Ezra Healy, John KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. Sayre, Gaylord Judd, As;i Oreott, John Milton Jamison, William Young, Ed Ryerson—9. ward Stevenson, David Gray, Esau Sim Total admitted into full connection — 98. 396 Minutes for 1823.

Quest. 4. Who are the deacons t A. Bain, John F. Andrus, Robert Wilkin son, John Hales, John OHIO CONFERENCE. Thompson, Thomas Crowder,* William Leigh,* Thomas B. Those marked thus (*) were ordained this year. Humphreys,* G. W. S. Harper,* George Isaac C. Hunter, James Gilruth, Thos. C. Chesley— 12. S. Hitt, William H. Raper, Zechariah BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Connel, John P. Durbin, Charles Thorn,* Samuel Clark,* Charles A. Davis,* Charles Trescott,* Nathan Walker,* Wil Charles William H. liam J. Kent,* William Simmons,* James Young, Chapman,* Shadrach Chaney,* Charles Cook, William Collord,* David Limerick,* Knapp, Henry Brandebury, William C. Pool, William Zarah Coston, James Murray,* James T. Hank, Samuel Bryson,* Samuel Ellis,* Wells, Abraham Lippet, Andrew Kenier* —19. Norval Wilson,* Thomas M. Hudson,* Jacob R. Shepherd, David Steel, Charles KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. B. Tippitt, Dennis B. Dorsey, John Miller Milton Jamison,* William Young,* Ed -18. ward Stevenson,* David Esau Gray,* PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. Simmons,* William M'Reynolds, Blachly Samuel S. C. Wood,* J. W. M'Reynolds * William Kennard,* Eliphalet Reed,* Gunn, Chelsea 0. John Bayne,* Daniel Parish,* Solomon Cole, David D. Dyke, — Isaac Collord, John R. Keach, Luke P. Higgins* 5. Allen,* Henry Gregg,* Isaac Reynolds,* NEW-YORK CONFERENCE.' James Avis,* Francis Wilson,* Amos Robert Seney, John D. Moriarty, John Smith,* William Peter, Martin Flint, John Summerfield, John Clark, Nathan Rice, Kenney, Joseph Farrow, Joshua Butcher, H. Humphreys, Cyrus Prindle,* William — Elisha Simmons, Benj. T. Crouch 26. S. Pease,* John Nixon,* Eli Denniston,* MISSOURI CONFERENCE. Lucius Baldwin,* John Luckey,* Friend Samuel Bassett,* William W. Redman, W. Smith,* Roswell Kelley,* Julius H. Vredenburgh,* Geo. K. Hester,* Wil Field*— 15. liam Medford, Washington Orr, James NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Scott, Robert Thomas Rice — Delap, 9. Jot ham Horton, James P. Harvey, Wil TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. liam M'Coy, Phineas Crandall, Charles John Brooks, Samuel Harwell, John Baker, David Culver, Joseph Kellum, Ezra Kesterton, Hartwell H. Brown, David Kellogg, Samuel Plummer, Gilman Moody, Adams, Abraham Still, Lewis S. Mar Abraham Holway, True Page, Heman shall, Thomas Madden, Elijah Kirkman, Perry,* Benjamin Brown,* Heman Nick- Richard W. Norris, Eliston Taylor, John erson,* Gorham Greely,* Frederick Up- Bradfield,* Joseph B. Wynns,* William ham,* Stephen Lovell,* Ella Dunham,* P. Kendrick, James Cumming,* John Wilder Mack,* William Granville— 21. Paulsell,* Wyley B. Peck, Andrew J. GENESEE CONFERENCE. Crawford,* Benjamin Sewell,* George P. Franklin Metcalf,* Denison Smith,* W. Morris*— 20. Asa Abel,* John Sayre,* Asa Orcott,* MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. John Ryerson,* Ira Brunson, James Jack Thomas Clinton, Meredith Renneau, son, Josiah Kies, Caleb Kendall, Keneth Daniel De Vinne, Joshua Butcher, Samuel M'K. Smith, Manly Tooker, Richard Patton, H. P. Cook, elect, B. M. Drake, Wright, William H. Williams, Philander elect — 7. Smith, Jasper Bennett, Robert Parker, Philetus SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. Parker, Thomas Demarest, Wil liam Kent — 20. Robert Adams, Nathaniel F. Rhodes, Total number of deacons — 137. John H. Treadwell, Thomas Mabrey, George Hill, Archibald Purifoy,* Joshua Quest. 5. Who have been elected and N. Glenn,* D. G. M'Daniel,* Elias Sin ordained elders this year ? clair,* Elijah Sinclair,* John I. Triggs,* OHIO CONFERENCE. Noah Laney,* Bond English,* M. M'Pher- Samuel Adams, Charles Elliot, James son,* John Reynolds* — 15. Smith, Samuel Brockunier, Edward Tay VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. lor, Dennis Goddard, Thomas M'Cleary, Moses Brock, Thos. R. Brame, George Leroy Swormstedt, Andrew C. M'Clane, Minutes for 1823. 397

Peter Stevens, Alfred Branson, James MISSOURI CONFERENCE. Havens — 12. Philip Davis, Alexander M'Allister, Jo Kinkaid, Jacob Whitesides— 4. MISSOURI CONFERENCE. seph Calvin Ruter, elect, William Townsend, TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. elect— 3. Thomas D. Porter, James Axley, Jas. MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. Whitten, Ansel Richardson, Rob't Hooper —5. Barnabas Pipkin, elect, Edward Har per, elect — 2. MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. Thomas Griffen, John Booth— 2. SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. CONFERENCE. Barnett Smith, Jas. Dannelly, Matthew SOUTH CAROLINA Raiford, Thomas Samford, elect, Jeremiah Thomas A. Rosamond, Christian G. Freeman, John B. Chappel, C. G. Hill, Hill, David Hilliard, Coleman Carlisle, — elect, John Howard, Jesse Sinclair, John John Mullinix 5. L. Jerry— 10. VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. Hezekiah M'Lelland, Joshua Feather- stone, James Patterson, Lewis Kimball, Enoch Johnson, Francis A.Ward, Henry G. W. Charlton— 5. Alley, Thomas Howard, Miles Nash — 5. BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Dennis H. Battie, Amos Barnes, Israel H. Battie, Richard Armstrong, Dennis Cook, Bennet Dowler, John Childs, Sam'l James Sansom, Thomas J. Dorsey, Jacob Cushing — 6. Larkin —5. PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. Phineas Price, Avra Melvin, Joseph Henry G. King, E. Stevenson, elect, Scull—3. Collins, John Joseph B. elect, Talley, NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. Carey, William Allen —6. Almond Dunbar, Earl Bancroft —2. CONFERENCE. NEW-YORK NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Coles, Orrin Pier, Samuel D. George Asa Heath, Samuel Baker, V. R. Os- De Wolf, Geo. Smith Ferguson, Harvey born — 3. —5. GENESEE CONFERENCE. NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Joseph M'Creary, Jeter Foster — 2. Samuel Norris, Isaac Stoddard, Elijah —44. Spear, James L. Bishop— 4. Total located the GENESEE CONFERENCE. Quest. 8. Who are supernumerary preachers t Horace Agard, Henry Peck, James OHIO CONFERENCE. Brown, Chester V. Adgate, Elijah Board- man, Enoch Barnes, Ezra Healy, Gaylord Thomas S. Hitt, David Young, John — Judd—8. P. Kent, Moses Crume, Henry Baker 5. Total number of elders ordained this KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. year— 59. William Allison, James Porter — 2.

Quest. 6. Who are the bishops and super MISSOURI CONFERENCE. intendents ? Job M. Baker. William M'Kendree, Enoch George, TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. Robert R. Roberts—3. John Brooks, William Allgood, Jesse Cunningham— 3. Quest. 7. Who have located this year ? MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. OHIO CONFERENCE. Ashley Hewitt, Barnabas Pipkin — 2. Moses Henkle, Abbot Goddard, Andrew Kenier — 3. SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. Gordon, John H. Treadwell — 2. KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. Benj. John W. M'Reynolds, Josiah Browder, VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. Samuel Brown, Benjamin Peoples— 4. C. S. Mooring. 398 Minutes for 1823.

BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. rian H. Gridley,Bela Smith, Oliver Sykes, John Thomas, John Emory, John G. John Crawford, Datus Ensign, Smith Ar Watt— 3. nold, Billy Hibbard— 9. PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. James Polemus, Nathan Swain, Rich'd Asa Kent, Chas. Virgin, Zenas Adams Sneath, Thomas Smith, William M'Lena. —3. han, Asa Smith, William Hunter, Ezekiel GENESEE CONFERENCE. Cooper, Joseph Osborn, Wm. Smith — 10. Benajah Williams, Reuben A. Ailworth, NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. Nathaniel Reeder, Thomas Whitehead, Elisha P. Jacob, Luman Andrus, Zal- Benjamin Bidlack, William Brown, Joseph mon Lyon, William Anson, James Cole Willis, John Kimberlin, Peter Jones, Jas. man, Aaron Hunt—6. Wilson, Edmund O'Fling, Peter Baker, — NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Ralph Lanning, Calvin N. Flint 14. Phineas Peck, Francis Dane, Orlando Total superannuated — 59. Hinds—3. Quest. 10. Who have been expelled from GENESEE CONFERENCE. the connection this year ? John B. Alverson, Ebenezer Doolittle, MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. Seth Mattison, Chandley Lambert, Elisha Thomas Nixon. Bebins, Micah Seager, Israel Chamberlin, Elijah King, James Gillmore —9. Quest. 11. Who have withdrawn from the connection this year ? Total supernumeraries — 47. VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. Quest. 9. Who are the superannuated Ira Parker left us irregularly. or worn-out preachers i OHIO CONFERENCE. BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. John Sale, Michael Ellis —2. Richard Hunt. KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. Quest. 12. Were all the preachers' charac Leroy Cole, Benjamin Lakin, John R. ters examined before the Conference ? Keacb. —3. This was strictly attended to by calling MISSOURI CONFERENCE. over their names before their respective Conferences. Samuel Glaze, Robert Delap, Calvin Ruter— 3. Quest. 13. Who have died this year ? TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. [The following memoir should have been James Dixon, Hartwell H. Brown — 2. inserted in the Minutes last year. 1. John Pitts. — He was born in Anne- MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. Arundell county, in the state of Maryland, None. Feb. 23, 1772, of reputable parents. Being SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. members of the Church of England, they James Bellah, David Garrison, James educated their son according to its princi Norton, Jesse Richardson, John Game- ples. He was, however, deprived of hie well — 5. father at the age of eleven years. VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. At the age of seventeen, under Method it to awaken Philip Bruce, Edward Cannon, John ist preaching, pleased God Pitts to a sense of his sinfulness, Lauimore, Samuel Garrard, Samuel Hun young ter— 5. and to bring him to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus. Soon after he be BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. came a member of the church, and he Seely Bunn, Josh. Wells, Morris Howe, walked in all good conscience. Joseph Toy, William Houston, Nelson In 1795 he was received on trial in the Reed, Joseph Frye, John C. French — 8. Baltimore Conference, and stationed on PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. Winchester circuit, Virginia. He con Robert M'Coy, Thomas Everard, Peter tinued to labour in the travelling ministry usefulness, Vannest, Jas. Ridgway, Lemuel Green— 6. with great acceptance and (graduating to the office of a deacon and NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. elder in the usual way,) until the year Samuel Fowler, Ezekiel Canficld, Cyp 1803, when, in consequence of great ex Minutes for 1823- S99 haustion of bodily strength, he asked a into the travelling connection, on trial, in location, which was granted him. But the Baltimore Conference, and appointed the next year, being somewhat recovered to travel on the Rockingham circuit ; and from his debility, he rejoined the Confer in 1805 on Pendleton circuit. In 1806, ence, and continued to fill a variety of im having exercised the office of deacon well, portant stations, with great satisfaction, he was ordained elder ; and having filled until 1812, when, through debility, he be the above stations acceptably, he applied came a supernumerary, on Frederick cir for and obtained a location in consequence cuit. The next year he was returned su of ulcers in his throat. In 1807 he moved perannuated. Being no longer able to to Logan county, Kentucky, where he con discharge the duties of a travelling minis tinued till his death. In this county his ter, he retired to his farm, near New- labours were extensive and useful. He Market, in Frederick county, Maryland, was a good preacher, filled with faith and where he continued to linger, with muoh the spirit of Christ, so that while he ex patience and fortitude, until February, posed the errors of the heterodox, and the 1821, when he fell asleep in Jesus. crimes of the wieked, with faithfulness He was a man of a meek and quiet spi and authority, he, for the most part, pos rit. His patience also was such as gave sessed himself of their confidence and good him the possession of his soul, in all the will. It was remarked by his friends and trials and afflictions he had to pass through. acquaintances, that the last year of his life He was a lover and cultivator of peace he had an increasing concern for the sal and union in the church of God ; and when vation of men. Neither the business of life, he was called upon to execute discipline, the interesting ties of a beloved family, the minister's painful and trying duty, he nor the numerous difficulties of a life de was generally enabled to perform the task voted to itinerating operations, could make so as to secure the confidence of all con him contented at home, while souls were cerned. He was a good minister of Jesus perishing for lack of knowledge ; hence Christ. Love to God, and to immortal he applied to the Conference of Green Ri souls, filled and governed his heart ; and ver district, on the 9th of June, 1821, for truth, divine truth, was the constant guide a recommendation to the Kentucky Annual of his mind in his exhortations and ser Conference for readmission, which being mons. As an ambassador of Jesus Christ, obtained and presented, he was, in Sep he kept in view his awful charge. He tember, again received cordially among was plain in person, manner, and language ; the travelling brethren, and appointed to and generally in the pulpit he was so af Christian circuit. But O ! how mysteri fected, that, like his Master, he wept over ous are the dispensations of divine Provi those who refused or neglected to know dence ! On the 31st of August he was the things belonging to their peace. There seized with the bilious fever, which, on was a peculiar tenderness and pathos in the 5th of October following, terminated his spirit and word, which frequently pene his earthly pilgrimage; but not without trated the whole congregation while he flattering prospects of endless pleasure. was holding forth the Lord Jesus Christ in During his last illness he sustained his af all bis offices as the only and all-sufficient flictions with the patience of a Christian, Saviour of lost men. and the firmness of a minister. The morn He was useful and successful in the ing before his death, brother Rush, a re ministry, and was the instrument of pro spectable local preacher of the neighbour moting several revivals of religion where hood, visited him, and conversed freely he laboured. Hundreds, we believe, will be with him on the subject of his dissolution, his joy and crown in the day of the Lord. to whom he stated that he had not enter 2. Philip Kennerly, —a native of Augusta tained a single doubt of his acceptance county, Virginia, was born of respectable with God during his afflictions : that he was parents on the 18th of October, 1769, and happy in God and resigned to his will. Af brought up in a decent manner. He had ter this he became delirious, and did not the happiness to embrace religion at the say much more. But his work was done — age of seventeen years; at which time he his slaves were emancipated —his tempo joined the Methodist Church, and shortly ralities well adjusted — his peace made with after became a local preacher of that order. God ; and his sun went down without a In 1794 he was happily married. In 1804, cloud. He will be long remembered with being duly recommended, he was received gratitude and affection by the inhabitants 400 Minutes for 1823. of the Green River country in general. after several weeks of painful confinement, "Being dead, he yet speaketh." The he ended his' days. During the gradual fruits of his ministry are yet visible. God decay of his health he enjoyed confidence has not forgotten his work and labour of in God, and was looking for salvation love. Since his departure, the Lord has through the merits of Christ. The flatter powerfully converted his oldest son, and ing nature of his disorder led him at times his son's wife ; and we humbly hope that to entertain a hope of recovering his health, more of his children are well nigh per and at other times he was subject to a de suaded to follow him, as he followed Christ. pression of spirit. But his trust was in 3. Walter Griffith, — a native of Mont the Lord of hosts, from whom he expect gomery county, Maryland. He was born ed salvation. A few days previous to his August 12, 1782. When near twenty death, when visited by one of his brethren years of age he was awakened to a sense in the ministry, he appeared unusually of his condition by nature and his need of happy in his mind, and desired all his Christ, and after a few months of convic friends to be told that he was going to rest tion, during which he earnestly sought the in heaven. After this his disorder, and the Lord, he was made a subject of pardoning medicine which he had taken, appeared to love. He removed to Kentucky in 1804, effect in his mind a partial derangement, and in 1807 he commenced his ministerial and he fell into discouraging and gloomy labours. In 1810 he travelled several apprehensions. From this state, however, months under the direction of a presiding he was soon happily delivered, and his elder, and at the Western Conference held mind became quietly fixed on God. And in Shelby county, Kentucky, in Novem on the 27th of June, 1822, being in the ber of the same year he was admitted on forty-first year of his age, he bid adieu to trial as a member of the itinerant con sublunary things in hope of life and im nection and appointed to Enon, now Law- mortality. renceburg circuit. At the Conference of 4. John Dix,—the subject of this short 1811 he was reappointed to this circuit. memoir, was born August 14, 1767, in In 1812 he was appointed to White Oak Robeson county, North Carolina. He be circuit ; in 1813 to Brush Creek circuit ; came a subject of converting grace and a in 1814 to Scioto ; in 1815 to Deer Creek ; member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816 to Mad River ; in 1817 to White in the year 1790, and about the year 1810 Oak, and in 1818 to Limestone. In all he received license to preach as a local these places he laboured with acceptance Preacher in Brunswick circuit ; in 1816 and usefulness. At the Conference of he was ordained deacon ; in 1818, was ad 1819 he was appointed to Miami district, mitted into the travelling connection, and where he remained two years, and laboured was appointed to Bladen circuit ; in 1819, faithfully in the duties of his charge as to Little Pee Dee ; in 1820, to Black River ; long as his strength would permit. In his in 1821, to Lynch's Creek, and in 1822 to second year on the district his health be Deep River, where he finished his course came much impaired, and during the latter on the 14th day of January, 1823, by a part of the year he was unable to preach. stroke of apoplexy, in the 56th year of His disorder being of the pulmonary kind, his age. His opportunities for improve and his constitution apparently broken, the ment were very limited in the early part Ohio Conference of 1821, considering him of his life, consequently he acquired but a superannuated, gave him that relation on very small share of literature ; from which their Minutes. After this he spent most circumstances he came forward to public of his time at his place of residence in Ne- view under many disadvantages ; but it is villesville, Ohio, until the latter part of the a fact which we state without fear of con following April. Feeling at this time tradiction, that he was useful in a very some better, and thinking that moderate considerable degree in every circuit to travelling might be of service to him, he which he was appointed. His zeal, his left home in company with his wife, in indefatigable labour, by day and by night, tending to visit some of his friends. He together with his affable and loving man arrived at Xenia, a town in Green county, ners in the families where he went, seemed when his disorder and the fatigue of tra in a good degree to supply his want of an velling had so exhausted his strength that education, and to enlist in his favour the he was unable to proceed any farther. good will and affection of the most pious Here, at the house of one of our friends, wherever he travelled. Although he was Minutes for 1823. 401 called off suddenly, yet it was not without ful minister of Christ. He neglected not strong presentiments of his approaching the gifts bestowed upon him, but by close dissolution. For several months previous application to reading and meditation he to his death, he mentioned to his presiding proved himself to be an able minister of elder that he was strongly impressed with the gospel, rightly dividing the word of a belief that he should die in Deep River truth. A divine unction attended the circuit. This in effect he repeated after word preached by him to the awakening ward, though still in very good health. He of many. Hundreds are living who were also selected the spot where he desired to seals to his ministry, and in eternity will, be interred : meantime he went on with it is hoped,' magnify Jehovah for raising up unabating zeal for the salvation of souls, in their day such a burning and a shining until he had finished his regular appoint light. ments on the circuit, and was winding up At a camp meeting in Prince George's his business to repair to Conference, if county, Mil., a few days previous to his permitted, when suddenly his Master said, last illness, in conversation with one, of It is enough, come up higher. His re his brethren he observed, that he was fully mains were interred at the spot selected fixed in the resolution of devoting all his by himself. He has left an aged and af life to the Lord Jesus in the service of his flicted companion to feel the force of this church. After he returned to his station visitation ; but we believe her loss is his from this camp meeting, he was taken ill infinite gain. of a bilious fever. As long as he retained 5. Samuel Davis, — born in the village his mental faculties, he appeared not to be of New-Holland, Lancaster county, Penn apprehensive of sudden dissolution ; but sylvania, October 7, 1793. In the year the disease being deeply radicated in his 1805 his parents moved to Shippensburg, system, it soon put medical skill to defiance. Cumberland county, in the same state, His affliction lasted about two weeks, dur where with them Samuel lived until he en ing which time he suffered with uniform tered the itinerant connection. patience and resignation. His education prior to his entering the He died on Sunday morning, September ministry consisted of the English and 16, 1822 ; and although from the Friday German languages ; and during the latter evening before his death he was deprived part of his itinerating he paid some atten of the power of speech, so that he could tion to Greek, and Hebrew. not express his religious feelings, yet we From his childhood he was remarkably have the assurance of his eternal redemp moral, never having been heard to swear tion in this, and similar portions of sacred " an oath, or do any act to offend or grieve Scripture : Mark the perfect man, and his parents. When a child, and up to behold the upright, for the end of that man the time of his conversion, he was « peace." impressed with the necessity of experi 6. William Wright, — the subject of this mental religion. This, however, he did memoir, was a native of Ireland, born in not obtain until the year 1812. At a camp Moneymore, county of Derry, 1798. He meeting in the month of August of that emigrated to the United States with his year he was encouraged to seek, and in parents in the year 1812. Our esteemed seeking found, redumption in the blood of brother while very young became the sub Jesus, even the forgiveness of his sins. ject of converting grace, uniting himself His conversion was powerful and clear, to the Methodist Church in Philadelphia, and marked with indications of his future and nndeviatingly continued his way to usefulness in the church of Christ. ward the kingdom of heaven through many Being fully persuaded of his call to the conflicts and temptations. ministry, he entered the travelling connec After some time he felt a strong im tion, and filled the following stations, viz., pression upon his mind to call sinners to Huntingdon, 1814; Bottetourt. 1815; repentance, and received a license as a Huntingdon again, 1816; Auckwick, 1817; local preacher. Carlisle, 1818; Pittsburg, 1819 and 1820; About this time there being a want of Baltimore, 1821 ; and in 1822 he was ap preachers in the New-England Conference, pointed to the Foundry station in the city he was advised by the Rev. Martin Rnter of Washington, where he ended his life and to join himself to that Conference, which labours. advice ho followed, and was appointed to In all those stations he served as a faith- labour under the direction of the presiding 26 402 Minutes for 1823.

elder until the next ensuing Annual Con tion, at the Philadelphia Conference in ference, at which Conference he was ad 1797, and appointed to Strasburg circuit ; mitted on trial and appointed to Ashburn- in 1798 he travelled on Strasburg and ham circuit. But in consequence of ill Chester circuits ; in 1799 he was admitted health he returned to Philadelphia, and into full connection, ordained deacon, and was appointed at the Philadelphia Confer appointed to Cecil circuit ; and 1800 he ence to Somerset circuit 1819 ; in 1820 travelled Cecil and Dover. In 1801 he he travelled Accomack ; in 1821 Queen was ordained elder, and appointed to Bris Ann's, and in 1822 Annamessex, where tol ; in 1802 he was stationed in Philadel he fell a victim to the fever generally pre phia; and in 1803 he travelled Milford valent on the peninsula. circuit. In 1804 he was appointed pre Brother Wright was a young man of an siding elder on Delaware district, which improvable mind, and possessed many amia office he filled with uncommon success for ble qualities. He was much attached to the four years ; and in 1808 he was put in cause of his Redeemer, and laboured with charge of Chesapeake district, where his much zeal for the salvation of his fellow- health failing, he was entered on the Min men. He was fond of study, and toward utes at the following Conference supernu the last of his time appeared more than usu merary, but without a station. In 1810 he ally devoted to God, as will appear from a was stationed on Bristol circuit; and in statement of his colleague, who writes as 1811, his health failing, he took a super follows :— annuated relation. He received a location " I met our dear brother on Annames in 1813. Such, however, was his inviola sex circuit in the month of May last, and ble attachment to the travelling connec found him much devoted to God and his tion, that in the last year of his life he work. We laboured together for more than begged the privilege of dying with his three months ; during which time we met itinerant brethren ; and his humble, affec every two weeks, and, as was our custom, tionate request, was granted, and his name gave each other a relation of our particular was enrolled on the Minutes with his exercises and state of the circuit. At our superannuated brethren at the Philadelphia last interview he observed, that for some Conference in May, 1822, and on the 8th time past, and particularly the last tour on of December following he was welcomed the circuit, his communion with God was into the joy of his Lord. That unerring more close than he had ever experienced hand which led him to his crown conduct before. ed him to it in the following manner, viz. : " Brother Wright was generally be On the first sabbath in May, 1820, while loved by all classes of people where he our beloved brother was in the delightful travelled, and the family at whose house work of preaching a crucified Saviour, in he died observed that he was exceedingly Ebenezer church in Philadelphia, he was patient and resigned during his illness ; visited with a paralytic shock, which dis but appeared not to have any apprehen abled wholly his left side ; from which he sions of his approaching dissolution. Such never fully recovered. In July, 1822, he was the character of his disease that it hur took a voyage to the West Indies, under ried him very unexpectedly into eternity, the nursing hand of his affectionate wife, so that his friends had but little opportunity for the amendment of his health ; and after of conversing with him relative to his par a passage of twenty-four days arrived in ticular exercises." St. Eustatia, and on the week following But he doubtless rests in peace from he had a second stroke of the palsy, and his labours and sufferings, that on his right side, which, after his re " Far from a world of grief and sin, turn home, and lingering twelve weeks, With God eternally shut in." terminated his mortal career. A specimen of the state of his — general 7. William Perm Chandler, born in mind, as the closing scene drew near, may Charles county, Maryland, June 22, 1764. appear from the following fact, viz. : His At the age of twenty-six years he expe class-leader, brother T. Jackson, on his rienced the work of regeneration on the way to church one sabbath calling to see 20th of August, 1790, at him, he half-past eight inquired of brother J. the day of o'clock in the evening, in St. George's the week ; and on the word Sun " hearing church in Philadelphia. He was admitted day, Sunday !" said the saint " triumphant into the travelling connection, on proba — Go, then, to the meeting;, and tell them 26« Minutes for 1823. 403

that I am f -ng, shouting the praises of large and deeply affected congregation, God." Hi* scstasy then being very great, from these fine words of the apostle : " he turned to his wife and said, My dear But I would not have you to be ignorant, Mary, open the window, and let me pro brethren, concerning them that are asleep, claim to the people in the streets the good and that ye sorrow not even as others ness of God." which have no hope." An affectionate brother, a physician, As a Christian, and as a Christian mi " gives the following account :— 1 visited nister, W. P. Chandler was a man of no Dr. Chandler daily during his last illness, ordinary grade. In his deportment, dig* which was of long continuance. His dis nity and humility, fervour and gentleness, ease was an almost universal paralysis. plainness and brotherly kindness, with uni The attack had at first been confined to form piety, were strikingly exemplified. one side, and, after a partial recovery only In the pulpit his soul was in his eloquence, of that side, the other became affected in his Saviour was his theme ; and the divine like manner with the first. His mind, as unction that rested upon him, and the evan well as his body, felt the effects of the gelical energy of his sermons, gave a suc disease, which at times caused a consider cess to his labours that has been exceeded able derangement of intellect : but notwith by few. He studied to show himself ap standing the confusion that was apparent proved unto God, a workman that needed in his mental operations, his constant theme not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the was his God and the salvation of his soul ; word of truth ; and how good a proficient and on these subjects it was truly sur he was in this study thousands who were prising to hear him converse. Although blessed under his ministry can heartily Dr. Chandler seemed incapable of rational testify; many of whom are living wit reflection on other subjects, yet on that of nesses of the happy effects of his labours, religion, at intervals, he never conversed while he is now reaping his eternal reward. with more fluency, correctness, and feeling, 8. William Ross,—of the Philadelphia at any period of his life. He appeared to Conference. He was bom in May, 1787, be exceedingly jealous of himself, and oc in Kent county, Delaware. His father, a casionally labouring under fear lest he might pious man, dying when he was about six have deceived himself, and that he should years of age, his childhood was not blessed finally become a cast-away : but of these with much religious instruction till he was apprehensions he was generally relieved between eleven and twelve years old, whenever we approached a throne of grace, when, by his own request, he was bound which we were in the habit of doing on to a pious member of our church in Kent almost every visit. In this state he re county, who soon began to teach him the mained until within a few days of his death, way of salvation, and to furnish him with when the Lord was graciously pleased, in religious books suitable to his years. The a most extraordinary manner, to pour out effect of this kindness was not in vain. his Spirit upon his servant ; and although- Conviction of sin at times pursued him, his body was fast sinking, his mind, for until he was nineteen years of age, when, two days, was restored to perfect vigour on the 6th of February, 1806, he was hap and correctness. During this time he pily brought to an experimental knowledge seemed to be in the borders of the hea of "Christ. The ardour of his soul, on the venly inheritance. He spoke of the glo attainment of this gracious change, soon ries, the joys, and the inhabitants of heaven, began to indicate the will of the great as though he had been in the midst of them. Head of the church concerning him, viz., He remarked to me at the time that he that he was a chosen vessel to bear the felt that his soul had begun to dissolve its hallowed name of his Redeemer to his connection with the body ; and that there fellow-men. The church saw it, and in was a freedom, a clearness and ease in its 1810 he was licensed to exhort. In 1813 views and operations that was entirely new he was licensed a local preacher ; but his to him, and that he had never before formed call to the itinerancy was so evident, that ' ' a conception of— In fact,' said he, I know the presiding elder of the district, having a not whether I am in the body or out of it.' vacancy in Milford circuit, appointed him Soon after this he sunk into a stupor, in to fill it. which he remained to the last. On the At the Conference of 1814 he was sabbath following, his funeral sermon was admitted into the travelling connection preached by the author of these lines to a on probation, and appointed to Lewis 404 Minutes for 1823.

town circuit; and in 1815 to Kent cir the day of his death. Justice to the de cuit : in 1816 he was admitted into full ceased compels me to say, that as a friend connection, and elected deacon ; but the he was cordial and constant in his attach absence of a bishop that year prevented ments, as well as plain and honest in his his ordination one year, which year was communications. As a preacher, he never crowned with much success on Talbot seemed disposed to fear or to flatter any circuit, to which he had been by the Con man ; but rightly dividing the word of ference appointed. Here his labour was truth, he gave to each his portion in due great as well as successful, and God made season: alike regardless of the smiles or his strength according to his day. At the frowns of men, he never appeared better Conference of 1817 he was ordained dea pleased than when engaged in his Master's ' con, and again appointed to Lewistown service, in which he laboured, not only circuit. In 1818 he travelled Somerset, according to, but beyond his power. In whore his excessive labours in the revivals his manners, when he opposed any thing of religion laid a foundation for the disease that he thought wrong, there appeared at that introduced him to his glorious reward. times a degree of bluntness which, to those Yet at the Conference of 1819 he was who were unacquainted with him, seemed ordained elder, and appointed to Snow Hill to appear morose ; but the pious and candid circuit ; but the failure of his health was who were best acquainted with him will do an interruption of his effective service for him the justice to say, that his seeming a few months. In 1820 he took Lancaster moroseness was not from a disposition to eircuit, which through much bodily weak offend, but a fear of being deceived, or ness he filled to the acceptance of his suffering others to be deceived. As a brethren. In 1821 his ardent soul led him Christian, he was sincerely pious and to accept of another circuit, which was happy in the enjoyment of the confidence Dorchester; but his health soon failing, and friendship of numerous friends in the he reluctantly bade adieu to that glorious different circuits on which he travelled. work which he could perform no longer ; But he is now kindly relieved from labour, " accordingly, in 1822, he was superannuated, from trouble and torturing pain," and and in the course of that year he entered gone into the presence of Him in whose into the joy of his Lord. presence is fulness of joy, and at whose Five days before his death a Christian right hand are pleasures for evermore. minister called to see him, and on inquiry 9. Alonson Gifford, —who was a native found him happy in God. His humble of the state of New-York, and born in the sense of the divine goodness made him year 1788. In early life ho was favoured observe the smaller as well as the greater with but few advantages for improvement, " manifestations of mercy. The good and, under God, was chiefly indebted to " Lord," said he, has given me another the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal good night's rest. Glory be to his holy Church both for his moral refinement and name '." On being asked if he enjoyed his knowledge of the gospel. peace with God through our Lord Jesus In the twenty-first year of his age he " Christ, his joyful reply was, Glory to became a member of our church in the God ! I feel a hope that reaches beyond Cambridge circuit. At this time there the grave. Glory to God! I am more was nothing in his Christian deportment established in the doctrines I have been which seemed to indicate more than ordi preaching than ever I was before, and that nary usefulness ; but afterward he dis the Scriptures are the fundamental doctrines played those excellences which charac of salvation. Brother C, preach Jesus terize the true herald of the Lord Jesus. Clirist and him crucified to a fallen world." He was licensed as a local preacher in He died February 22d, 1823, at the house 1812; entered the itinerancy in 1818, and of J. H. Poland, Kent county, Maryland. was appointed to the Herkimer circuit; A brother of the itinerancy gives the in 1819 to the Canajoharie ; 1820 and " following account :— I have had some 1821 to the Western. In all these places acquaintance with our departed brother he laboured with considerable success in Ross ever since the year 1806 ; but in the the confirmation of saints and conversion year 1817, being appointed to travel Lewis- of sinners. In 1822 ho was appointed to town circuit together, our acquaintance the Litchfield circuit, where he laboured a grew into an intimacy, and matured into few weeks and was taken ill, on account a sincere friendship, which continued till of which he returned to his family in Minutes for 1823. 405

Rome, called for medical aid, and, though ville circuit ; in 1819, in the Cornwall faithfully attended by his physician, every circuit; in 1820, in the Young-street cir means employed for the recovery of his cuit; in 1821 he was appointed to Perth health proved ineffectual. He died in and the New Settlements; in 1822, in about two weeks after leaving his circuit. the Bay Quintie circuit, where he finished Alonson Gifford was a sound, practical his course. He died the 25th of Decem preacher — grave and prudent in his pri ber, 1822. vate demeanour, fervent in his devotions, About two weeks previous to his disso and more than usually zealous in preach lution, in order to meet his appointment it ing and exhortation. In private life he was necessary to cross the ice about a was a man of few words, though more mile and a half. The ice being very good was effected by his conversation smooth, he found it difficult to keep his than by that of many preachers who con feet ; he, therefore, took off his boots, and verse much. His theme was holiness travelled in his stocking feet. This was both in life and death. On the day pre the occasion of a heavy cold. On the en vious to his departure he exhorted his suing sabbath, though unwell, he preached friends in a very affecting manner, and twice, and met two classes, taking- no re expressed a perfect resignation to the will freshment throughout the day except x of Heaven ; after which he was unable to light breakfast. On this day too he again speak any more. He died in the thirty- took cold, being thinly clothed, and facing fiAh year of his age, Sept. 29th, 1822. a severe wind. His last sermon on Luke 10. James Griggs Peal.—He was born xiii, 5, Except ye repent ye shall all like in the town of Sandwich, Kent, England. wise perish, was delivered in an impressive In May, 1805, he enlisted in the army, manner; after which he walked to brother which afterward served in Spain, Portu C. Switzer's. He now became so unwell gal, and Germany. Previous to his leav that he could take no nourishment, but ing England he came under the preaching appeared much exercised on the subject " of the Methodists, where he was awakened of religion, and said, If I never preach and converted to God ; and soon after he again, I am clear of the blood of this began to exhort his comrades to repent. people." His disorder increased till, at During his continuance in the army, which intervals, he became delirious, and for the was about nine years, he was in the habit last twenty-four hours especially he was of preaching to the soldiers in the bar deranged. While he possessed his reason racks and fields ;' and by his labours a he appeared sensible of his approaching considerable society was raised up, and dissolution, but showed no murmuring or continued to associate together for reli impatience ; but when asked if he wag gious worship while he continued with ready to go, he answered with composure, " them. In 1815 the royal staff corps, to I am both ready and willing." which he was attached, came to Halifax ; The most prominent traits in his cha thence to Coteau-Du-Lae, Lower Canada. racter were zeal, firmness, and perse Application having been made to his ex verance in the discharge of his duties. cellency the governor, he obtained his And some in the Cornwall and Young- discharge from the army, for the purpose street circuits especially will long re of becoming an itinerant preacher in the member and bless God for the faithful Canadas. With his ditchnrge he reoeived labours of brother Peal. from his commanding officer, Major L., the following recommendation, dated the Quest. 14. What numbers are in Society? 25th of November, 1817: — "I certify OHIO CONFERENCE. that I have known James Peal for the Ohio District. Lancaster District. period of nine years ; during which time Whites. Col. Whites. Col. he has invariably conducted himself with Erie 617 Fairfield 113* the utmost sobriety and integrity, and is Mahoning 1070 Muskingum 604 Beaver 675 Granville 690 well deserving any indulgence that may Cross Creek 1005 Knox 565 be granted to him." Sleubenville 257 Mansfield 733 2 Till June, 1818, he was employed by Tuscarawas 530 Wayne 376 the presiding elder to travel on the At- Grand River 786 Huron 315 Cuyahoga 600 Hockhockin g280 tawa circuit. In July of the same year Newcastle 382 Lancaster 64 he was admitted on trial in the itinerant connection, and was stationed in the Bell- 5972 4791 406 Minutes for 1823.

Muskingum District. Lebanon District. Illinois District. Whites. Col. Whites. Col. Whites. Col. Whites. Col. Iihiog rnrer SO Zanesville 740 21 White Oak 1430 Mount Car- West Wheel Milford 1275 2 mel 360 2 1450 162 1052 14 Cape Girardeau Dist. ing 856 Union Wabash 425 Barnesville 986 7 Piqua 843 Cash River 137 Beljevue 183 4 117 Duck Creek 879 Mad River 1290 25 Okaw 272 25 Saline 8 St. Francis 117 Marietta cir. 342 Paint Creek 680 Illinois 604 1' 2 River 113 Marietta 77 London 620 Shoal Creek 396 ', Spring River 183 Athens 742 Detroit 130 Sangama 223 White Girar Letart Falls 560 Indian Mission 65 Cape deau 231 Burlington 350 Lebanon 183 1 2417 40 21 New-Madrid 150 Missouri District. 5532 28 7568 52 Miami District. Buffalo cir. 337 11 1094 25 Scioto District. Cincinnati 630 32 Boonslick 192 29 Arkansas District. Columbus 970 11 Greenville 420 Lamoine 123 3 Arkansas cir. 106 5 Pickaway 878 Oiford 868 Cedar Creek 214 30 Hot Springs 109 2 Deer Creek 1094 4 White Water 1231 Missouri 184 26 Mt. Prairie 340 40 Chilicothc 225 8 Miami 764 3 Gasconade 184 23 Pecon Point 65 1 Salt Creek 550 Lawrence- St. Louis cir. 109 10 Scioto 1358 16 burg 713 St. Louis sta. 67 30 620 43 Brush Creek 814 3 Madison 873 20 Strait Creek 592 Hamilton and TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. Delaware 240 Rossvillc 110 Nashville District. Tennessee Nashville sta. 68 38 Valley 538 103 6721 42 5609 55 Nashville ct. 1079 201 Squatchey Valley 360 14 KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. Lebanon 1071 140 Cany Fork 427 37 Little River 730 114 Kenhawa District. Shelby 418 120 Stone's River 811 102 Knox 776 78 Middle Island 333 8 Jefferson 700 171 Duck River 731 85 Hiwassce 484 21 Little Ken- Franklin 385 57 Franklin * 72 65 hawa .133 31 Louisville 120 90 Columbia 107 21 4603 508 Big Ken Breckenridgc 446 26 Murfreesbo- Hoiston District. hawa 3.T2 3(1 rough and Lee 502 39 Greenbrier 603 81 3653 672 Shelbyvillc 78 62 Clinch 6OO 32 Monroe 662 26 455 55 Green River District. Tazewell Guyandotte 397 36 4444 751 Ashe 233 13 Hartford 513 102 Little Sandy 275 16 New-River 862 116 Henderson 468 79 Tennessee District. Pond Spring 491 68 Abingdon 552 92 3087 228 Livingston 521 35 Jackson 231 Hoiston 1059 96 District. Hopkinsville 163 77 Kentucky Flint River 510 38 Carter's Val John's Creek 164 6 Christian 633 220 Limestone 503 34 ley 640 133 461 30 Dover 418 77 Newport Bedford 764 137 427 12 Dixon 532 54 Licking Richland 608 59 4909 576 Mount Ster Red River 830 189 Shoal 265 16 Duck River District. 747 110 ling Huntsville 61 213 Wayne 255 Frankfort 31 5 4158 833 Paint Rock 251 Hickman 149 35 Lexington sta Cumberland District. Sandy River 204 24 154 122 Somerset 585 27 tion 3684 565 Obion 45 Limestone f.'.iG 70 Wayne 677 54 Beach River 188 35 Fleming 848 63 Goose Creek 585 28 French-Broad District. Forked Deer 1C8 7 Lexington 785 269 Fountain Nolachucky 1202 133 Hotchy 16 Hinkstone 850 90 Head 842 124 Powell's Val Maysville 116 24 Bowling ley 513 45 1025 101 Green 510 43 5309 810 Barren 631 22 MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. Salt River District. Green River 596 56 Mississippi District. Alabama District. Cumberland 324 29 Roaring River405 3S Natchez cir- Wniteaand ct. 388 18 Madison 3)3 17 Montgomery 190 cuit 212 207 Chickasawhay558 57 Danville 428 101 Claiborne 494 112 Tombeckbce 216 86 Salt River 517 55 5021 394 Wilkinson 354 184 Alabama 1394 84 Amite 330 59 Canaco 421 19 MISSOURI CONFERENCE. Pearl River 327 65 Indiana District. Patoka 315 2977 264 Charleston Mount Ster- 1717 627 Cahawba District. cir. 1250 8 ling 316 Louisiana District. Franklin cir. 694 115 Flat Rock 370 Corydon 600 Attakapas cir. 27 50 Cahawha 688 86 Blue River 682 10 Indianapo- Rapide 22 40 Tuscaloosa 502 92 Bloominzton 494 1 lis 143 Wasliitta 50 3 Marion 283 87 Honey Creek 335 Vinci -tines 342 4877 IB 99 93 2167 380 Minutes for 1823. 407

SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. Whites. Col. Roanoke District. Suffolk 474 337 Athens District. Whites. Col. Whites. Col. Charleston 413 2226 Whites. Col. 3884 2198 Roanoke 659 192 720 140 Appalachee 2425 .1066 Neuse District. Washington 32 254 Broad River 714 121 Broad River District. Haw River 480 180 Swift Creek 80 65 Grove 743 22 Reedy River 556 111 Raleigh city 61 69 Washington Alcovi 974 177 Enoroo 651 186 Tar River 646 128 & Albemarle Sparta 619 300 Newberry 476 312 Raleigh cir. 560 140 Sound 212 42 Cedar Creek Sandy River 613 287 Black River 409 155 Mattamus- & Milledge- Wateree 556 110 New-River 482 354 kcet 79 34 ville 1001 295 Santee 512 526 Newbern 159 520 Banks and Camden 100 497 Beaufort and Islands 187 36 4781 1055 Columbia 91 116 Straits 205 36 Oconee District. 1249 623 Washington 309 70 3585 2175 3002 1582 Big Oakmul- Pet Dee District (. BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. gee 483 88 Lynch'sCreek375 83 Little Oak- Little Pee Baltimore District. Washineton 216 2 mulgee 187 47 Dee 1064 302 Baltimore Greenfield 600 Ohoopee 289 83 Black River 371 662 city 2302 1325 Monongahela 527 41 Applin 34 Brunswick 633 402 Fell's Point 661 257 Harrison 774 16 Satilla 169 35 Bladen 292 3M2 Baltimore cir. 690 228 Lewis 394 10 St. Mary's and Deep River 253 33 Severn 757 647 Amelia 20 21 Georgetown 116 1443 Annapolis 216 212 3760 104 Fayetteville 123 351 Calvert 770 1291 Pitubvrt; District. 1491 125 S52 344 Wilmington Pr. George's 362 925 Connnlsville 430 3 280 87 Ogtechee District. Foundry Somerset 300 3352 4535 317 229 Augusta 175 132 Georgetown Maboning 370 2 Catawba District. Washington Montgomery 780 620 Pittsburg 710 3 Montgomery 513 84 town 23 20 Chartiers 466 4 Rocky River 724 114 7225 5821 Louisville 253 78 Uniontown & Sugar Creek 255 H4 Potomac Warren 778 292 District. Brownsville 228 11 Lincoln 510 110 Alexandria 316 172 Little River 575 124 Redstone 634 19 Union 632 IS 426 167 Saluda 384 144 Ebenezer 369 157 Abbeville 689 158 UpperFrench- Fairfax 3133 42 Broad 393 27 Loudoun 466 118 Keewee 447 24 Northumberland District. Black Moun Stafford 365 41 Northumber tain 372 24 Fredericks 3324 972 land 682 Morganton 430 131 2 burg 74 Shamokin Ediitn District. Early county Westmore 300 Lycoming 471 10 Savannah 156 153 mission 182 59 land 273 17 Bald Eagle 406 1 Black Swamp 142 162 Upper coun Lancaster 670 156 Auckwick and Orangeburg 695 354 ties, (hi. et Juniatta 637 6 Cypress 686 729 Monroe miss. 75 2959 828 Huntingdon 420 5 Congaree 159 88 Winchester District. Bedford 374 20 Cooper River 174 354 4168 718 Winchester circuit 746 132 VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. 3290 44 Rockingham 705 167 Jamss River District. Yadkin District. Staunton 298 157 . Carlisle District Williamsburg 670 30 Salisbury 786 21 Bottetourt 416 95 Carlisle 600 6 Gloucester 1158 8 Yadkin 317 29 Pendleton 529 96 York 102 4 Richmond 214 R7 Iredell 723 7 South Branch 544 80 York circuit 271 2 Columbia 713 71 Guilford 699 73 Alleghany 680 115 Harford 813 272 Culpepper 27(i 21 Franklin 467 47 Berkley 550 78 Great Falls 622 215 Amherst 3S7 33 Caswell 621 62 Jefferson 559 157 Frederick cir. 870 301 . Hanover 353 37 Granville 626 67 Fredcricktown 65 137 llillslwrou: ;h 63 31 5027 1127 Chambersburgl23 i 3301 292 Monongaketa District. Chambersburg Mehnrin District. 4202 340 East Wheel circuit 375 129 6 07 Lynchburg 201 41 Norfolk District. ing 448 Hagerstown 81 Short 241 22 Bedford 526 68 Norfolk 268 239 Creek Ohio 7 Buckingham 445 22 Portsmouth 1S3 137 530 3922 1137 Mecklenburg 3S0 34 Princess Ann 858 549 CONFERENCE. Greensville 661 156 Camden 408 685 BrunswicK 407 160 Gates and Kensington 232 Schuylkill District. Amelia 616 76 Edenton 445 128 Bristol 5S6 17 Chesterfield 336 16 Murfrees bo Philadelphia — Dauphin 450 3 Petersburg 225 54 rough 217 St.George'sl916 64 Lancaster 1037 .11 Surry 20! Union 466 Chester 739 85 3797 627 Sussex 710 214 St. John's 438 Wilmington 263 M 408 Minutes for 182 3.

Whites. Col. Chesapeake District. Whites Col. New-Hampshire Diet. Newcastle & Whites. Col. Lynn Wood Whites. Col. Newport 86 5 End 130 107 1 Smyrna 937 531 Portsmouth Marblchcad 122 103 1 Dover 981 524 Salisbury 6*63 308 Salem 32 210 1 Caroline 720 180 Newmarket Nev~Jersey District. Scituate 106 Salem 370 Talbot 834 642 Burlington 530 24 Harwich and Rochester 256 Queen Ann's 705 570 Trenton city 222 Barnstable 210 Pembroke 241 Centreville H'O 84 Asbury 512 Sandwich' 02 Bridgewater 207 Kent 447 353 Sussex 505 Wellflect 513 Sandwich 159 Cecil 920 284 Hamburg 334 Falmouth 110 Canaan 159 Rock Run 143 10 Bergen 900 Nantucket 330 24 Tuftonbo- Newark 106 Martha's rough 124 5787 3178 Essex & Sta Vineyard 202 Landaff 752 ll n Island 852 29 Delaware District. New-Bedford 118 Lancaster 281 New-Bruns Cambridge 879 634 Fairhaven 114 wick 03 Dorchester 778 510 Danbury 220 9 2921 3 Trenton 481 Somerset 692 413 Portland District. Freehold Annamessex 723 561 3465 112 Portland 188 New-Mills 670 Accomack 741 373 New-Ijondon District. Kennebeck 118 Gloucester 873 Snow Hill 615 714 New-London 212 12 Scarborough 194 Cumberland 017 Lewistown 829 335 Norwich 294 14 Buxton 134 Salem 714 Milford 779 407 Hebron 496 11 Conway 204 1 Tolland 652 2 Gray 187 8462 276 6036 3D17 Ellington and Poland 336 NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. Warehouse Bethel 150 Point 65 Livermore 466 Arm- York District. Reading 656 4 Ashtiurnham 393 Rendfield 270 New-York 2499 73 Springfield 116 Durham 254 1 4131 65 Asbury Afri Needhnm 275 Saratoga District. can 134 Northbridge 242 2501 2 Montgomery 735 7 New-Ro Mansfield 401 Kennebeck District. Saratoga 666 3 che lie 663 14 Somerset 08 Industry 277 Pittstown 574 16 Croton 492 27 Rhode Island Norridge- Troy 217 3 Courtlandt 781 20 and Little wock 168 Schenectady 164 7 Stamford 402 4 Compton 191 Unity 184 Berne 675 1 Jamaica 605 8 Bristol and Hallowell .152 Cambridge 480 3 Suffolk and Warren 351 18 Pittstown 260 Warren 311 Sag Harbour 382 5 Providence 280 35 Georgetown 50 Brooklyn 3S6 6 Warwick 230 4 Bristol 107 3822 39 Pomfret 310 2 Union 240 Champlain District. 6220 2'JO Hamden 326 Whitehall 409 2 4606 102 Exeter 126 1 Rhinebeck District. Brandon 482 Vermont District. Vassalboro' 229 Rhinebeck 221 21 Middlebury 139 Wethersfield 444 2 Bath 90 Salisbury 514 3 Charlotte 586 1 Barnard 730 Fairfield 190 Granville 661 2 St. Alban*s 633 1 Vershire 300 Leyden 284 1 Stowe 554 Barre 495 2599 1 Petersburg 212 l Grand Isle 184 Athens 206 1 Penobscot District. Pittsfield 425 4 Chazy 468 Unity 305 Orrington 448 Chntham 503 5 Plattsburg 457 3 Danville 301 4 Penobscot 220 Hudson 160 1 Ticondcroga 276 Lyndon 258 Vinalhaven 51 Craftsbury 218 Thomastown 195 2940 38 4188 7 Norwich 65 Columbia 56 Hudson River District. Mad River 110 St. Croix 205 New-Haven District. Albany 215 18 Dutchess 584 37 Coeymans 723 12 3432 7 1175 Amenia 352 10 Sharon 791 4 Goshen 546 4 Jefferson 1117 3 GENESEE CONFERENCE. Burlington 411 2 Delaware 883 Ontario District. Oneida District. Hartford 120 Newhurg 87 1 Lyons 577 6 Westmore- Wethersficld 144 Newhurg cir. 450 14 Ontario 502 2 land 532 4 Mi'ldlctown isa 1 Ncw-Windsor689 11 Seneca 502 3 Western 628 2 Durham 478 1 Sullivan 458 5 Crooked Lake 370 Litchfield 391 New-Haven 181 5 Kingston 232 4 Catharine 481 5 Otsego and Stratford 435 1 Prattsburg 241 2 Cooperstown60 3 Bridgeport 72 5645 72 Canisteo 426 6 Herkimer 521 Geneva and Canajoharie 303 5 NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Canaan 284 111 Paris 108 2 Boston District. Maiden 192 Trumansburg 22 Utica 177 1 Boston 573 55 Lynn Com- Cbarlestown 133 2 mou 238 3405 133 3303 17 Minutes for 1823. 409

Chenangft District. Whites. Col. Quest. 15. Where are the preachers sta Whites. CoL Young-street 240 tioned this year ? Chenango 476 York <&New Lebanon •438 Settlement 170 OHIO CONFERENCE. , Pompey 533 Grand River book Cout'tlandt 491 mission 30 Martin Ruter, agent, Cincinnati. Manltus 10'J Ohio Dist. William Swazey, P. Elder. Marcellus 707 2506 35 Scipio 442 Erie, William H. Collins. Bay District. Auburn 147 Quiniie Mercer, Samuel Adams. Bay Quntie 486 Cayuga 630 Smith'sCreek 394 Grand River, Edward Taylor, John Ithaca and Bellville 186 Crawford. Caroline 323 Hallowell 529 2 Homer 80 Youngstown, William Tipton, Albert G. Augusta 506 Richardson. Cornwall 172 4382 13 Attawa 128 Deerfield, Ezra Boothe, Win. Westlake. Black River District. Rideau 311 1 Hudson, Ira Eddy. Black River 349 Perth 131 Brunswick, Malone 145 Charles Trescott, James Kingston 60 St. Lawrence 383 Rowe. Indian River 163 Beaver, Dennis Goddard, B. O. 2906 Plimp Lc Roy 479 ton. Genesee District. Watertown 100 2 Newcastle, Thomas Carr. Sandy Creek 767 1 Sweden 192 Oswego 321 1 Batavia 276 Lancaster Dist. Jacob Young, P. Elder. Victory 420 Caledonia 371 Hockhocking, Zarah Coston. Rushford 373 Fairfield, William Stevens. 3127 4 Olean 04 Aimer Siisqwhannah District. Genesee 300 Muskingum, Gqff, Solomon Man- Wyoming 463 1 Bloomlield 451 cer. Canaan 358 Rochester 74 Granville, William Cunningham, Charles Bridgewater 427 Orangevillo 160 Thorn. Broome 549 Elba 256 2 Knox, Daniel Limerick, John Pardo. Spencer 348 Norwich 16 Tioga 404 3 Mansfield, Shadrach Ruark, Orin Gill- Wyalusing 340 2 2563 14 more. Owego 72 3 Erie District. Wayne, Peter Stevens. Bainbridge 196 French Creek 247 Huron, Nathan Walk&r, John Walker. Lake 380 Delaware, Thomas 3157 11 Chetauque 3G0 M'Cleary. Upper Canada District. Eden 275 Zanesville circuit, Burroughs Westlake, Niagara 441 12 Buffalo 51 D. Young, sup. Lyons Creek 114 Rldgeway 500 Zanesville town, John P. Durbin. Ancaater 422 2 Clarence 110 Muskingum Long Point 358 3 North East 170 Dist. John Waterman* Thames 257 17 P. Elder. Westminster 474 1 2099 Stcubenville, James M'Mahon. Cross Creek, Wm. Knox, John BBCAPITDLATION. M'Ma- hon. Whites. Col. Total. West Wheeling, John Graham, Samuel Ohio Conference 36193 179 36372 Brokunier. Kentucky Conference 21228 2937 24165 Barnesville, Curtis Goddard, Archibald Missouri Conference 10158 294 10752 ATIlroy. Tennessee Conference 18665 2501 21166 Mississippi Conference 6960 1364 8324 Duck Creek, Abraham Lippett, Philip South Carolina Conference 23121 13895 37016 Green. Vinrinia Conference 19931 5962 25893 Marietta, Cornelius Springer, William J. Baltimore Conference 29321 9103 38424 Kent. Philadelphia Conference 26648 7709 34357 Athens, New-York Conference 26046 511 27457 Joseph Carper, Henry Knapp. New-England Conference 20699 227 21926 Letart Falls, James Gilruth, John P. Kent. Genesee Conference 27448 240 27688 Tuscarawas, Josiah Foster, Thomas R. Ruckle. Total 267618 44922 312540 Total last year ♦297632 Scioto Dist. Greenberry R. Jones, P. Elder. Increase this year 11903 Columbus, Charles Waddle, H. S. Fer- Travelling Preachers 1226. nandes. * There was an error of 62 in the total of last Pickaway, Jacob Hooper, Whitefield year's Minutes. Hughes. 410 Minutes for 1823.

Deer Creek, James Quihn, William Sim- Augusta Dist. Jonathan Stamper, moos. P. Elder. Scioto, William J. Thompson, Zach. Con- Newport, David Dyke, James Milligan, nell. Licking, Joseph Farrow. Salt Creek, Andrew C. M'Claine. Limestone, Abel Robinson, Green Malone. Chilicothe, John Collins. Maysville, Andrew Monroe. Brush Creek, Henry B. Bascom, James Fleming, James G. Leach, Absalom Hunt. Haven. Little Sandy, Luke P. Alien. Straight Creek, William Crawford, John John's Creek, Lewis Parker, Stephen Jayne. Harber. Raccoon, James T. Donohoo. Kentucky Dist. Marcus Lindsey, Burlington, Isaac C. Hunter. P. Elder. Lebanon Dist. James B. Finley, Hinkston, Francis Landrum, John H. P. Elder. Power. Lebanon, Truman Bishop. Paris, Nathaniel Harris. Paint Creek, John Summerville, James Mount Sterling, Josiah Whilaker, William Smith. Stribbling. London, George W. Mealy, Aaron Wood. Lexington circuit, Benjamin Malone, Mar Mad River, James Collord, John P. Tay tin Flint. lor. Lexington station, George C. Light. Piqua, D. D. Davidson, R. W. Finley. Frankfort, William Holman. Union, A. W. Elliott, John C. Brook. Danville, John Ray, H. M''Darnel, William Milford, John Strange, James T. Wells. Guinn. White Oak, William Page, Benjamin, Cumberland, Milton Jameson, Uriel Haw. Lawrence. Salt River Dist. William Adams, Detroit, Alfred Brunson, Samuel Baker. P. Elder. mission, Charles —James Wyandot Elliot Franklin, John Kenney. B. Finley, superintendent of the mis Salt River, George Taylor, Edwin Ray. sion. Shelby, Simon Peter, Benjamin C. Crouch. Miami Dist. Alexander Cummins, Jefferson, George Locke, Isaac Collord. P. Elder. Louisville, Richard Corwine. Cincinnati, Leroy Swonnsledt, John F. Breckenridge, John James, Geo. Stevens. Wright. Hartford, R. D. Neale, Wm. Allison, sup. Miami, Allen Wiley, Samuel West. Greenville, Edward Ashley, Obadiah Har Hamilton and Rossville, Henry Baker. ber. Oxford, James Jones, Levi White. Green Riter Dist. Charles Holliday, Greenville, Richard Brandriff*, Moses P. Elder. Crume, sup. Henderson, Thomas Atterbury, James White Water, Russell Bigelow, George Ross. Gatch. Livingston, Geo. Brown, G. W. Rohbins. Lawrenceburg, William H. Raper. Christian, Thomas A. Morris, Madison, J. Stewart, Nehemiah B. Grif Major Stanfield. fith. Dover, Chelsea O. Cole, James Browder. Conncrsville, James Murray, James C. Hopkinsville & Russellville,/oAn Johnson. Taylor. Dixon, Allen Elliot, Esau Simmons. KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. Red River, George M'Nelly, Simon L. Augusta College, John P. Finley. Booker. Kenhawa Dist. John Brown, P. Elder. Cumberland Dist. Peter Cartwright, Guyandotte, Burwell Spurlock, David P. Elder. Gray. Green River, John Denham, Henry W. Big Kenhawa, Francis Wilson. Hunt. Monroe, Amos Smith, Laban Hughey. Somerset, John Watson, Caleb Crane. Green Brier, James Avis, Jonathan G. Wayne, E. Simmons, J. Porter, sup. Tucker. Roaring River, Thomas Joiner. Little Kenhawa, Peter Akors, Harvey Goose Creek, Samuel S. P. V. Gillespie. Sawyer. Fountain Head, William Peter, Zadcci Middle Island, William Young. B. Tluickslon. Nicholas, Isaac Reynolds. Barren, Blatchly C. Wood, John Jones. Minutes for 1823 411

Bowling Green, Edward Stevenson, Hen Pecon Point, William Bryant. ry GreSg- _ Conference missionaries— Cumberland mission, William Chambers. Missouri, Jesse Walker. William M'Reynolds, transferred to the Arkansas, Wdliam Stevenson* Missouri Conference. TENNESSEE CONFERENCE. Joshua Butcher, transferred to the Mis sissippi Conference. Nashville Dist. Thomas L. Douglass, P. Elder. MISSOURI CONFERENCE. Nashville town, Benjamin P. Sewell. Indiana Dist. Samvel Hamilton, P. Elder. Nashville circuit, R. Ledbetter, N. T. Charleston, James Armstrong. Scales, T. J. Neely. Flat Rock, Dennis Willey. Lebanon, G. Baker, F. Screggs, L. D. Blue River, William M'Reynolds, George Overall. K. Hester. Cany Fork, A. Overall, F. Owen, W. Bloomington, John Cord. Allgood, sup. Honey Creek, Hackaliah Vredenburgh. Stone's River, J. Rains, John Seay, John Vincennes, John Iugersoll, Job M. Ba Brooks, sup. ker, sup. Duck River, Elijah Hickman, William Patoka, Ebenezer T. Webster. Carpenter. Mount Sterling, Stephen Beggs. Columbia town, Thomas Madden. Corydon, James L. Thompson. Franklin and Lebanon towns, Rob't Paine. Indianapolis, James Scott. Murfreesborough and Shelbyville, Willie Eel River, William Cravens. B. Peck. Illinois Dist. Samuel H. Thompson, Huntsville Dist. William M'Mahon, P. Elder. P. Elder. Mount Carmel, Samuel Hull. Madison, L. S. Marshall, Jas. W. Allen. Wabash and Mount Vernon, Josiah Patter Limestone, Ellison Taylor, Joseph W. son, William Smith. Camp. Kaskaskia, Anthony W. Cassad. Richland, Coleman Harwell, sen., J. H. Illinois, Jesse Hade, Cornelius Ruddle. Holland. Cash River, John Blasdel. Bedford, Willie Ledbetter, Abner Bowen. Shoal Creek, Parham Randle, William Pond Spring, Jacob Hearn, Richard F. Townsend. Jarratt. Sangama, Thomas Rice. Jackson, T. A.Young, Greenberry Garrett. Mississippi, Isaac N. Piggott. Huntsville, Thomas Stringfield. Missouri Dist. David Sharp, P. Elder. Paint Rock, Isaac W. Sullivan, A. F. Buffalo, William Roberts. Daiskill. Boonslick, William W. Redman. Pulaski and Upper Elkton, Joshua Butcher. Fishing River, John Wood. Cherokee mission, Andrew J. Crawford. Lamoiiie, Frederick Leach. French-Broad Dist. John Dever, Cedar Creek, David Chamberlain. P. Elder. Missouri, Thomas Randle. Tennessee Valley, Samuel Harwell, Jo Gasconade, James Bankeson. siah R. Smith. St. Louis circuit, William Sublett. Squatchey Valley, Thomas J. Brown, St. Louis station, William Beauchamp. William dimming. Cape Girardeau Dist. Thomas Wright, Hiwassee, J. B. Wynns, J. Y. Craw P. Elder. ford, T. Smith. Belleview circuit, John Glanville, William Little River, James Cumming, Barton Ryan. Brown, Jesse Cunningham, sup. Saline, William Medford. Knox, R. W. Morris, J. G. H. Speer. St. Francis, Lorenzo Edwards. Powell's Valley, George Home, William Spring River, Isaac Brookfield. Johnson. Whito River, to be supplied. Nolachucky, G. Ekin, J. Rice, D. B. Cape Girardeau, Thomas Davis. Cumming. New-Madrid, Washington Orr. Holston Dist. John Tevis, P. Elder. Arkansas Dist. John Scripps, P. Elder. Lee circuit, G. W. Morris, Josiah Rhoton. Arkansas circuit, John Harris. and Mount Hot Springs Prairie, Samuel * Marking the elders' names in Italics was in Bassctt, Gilbert Clark. . the Missouri Conference omitted. 412 Minutes for 1823.

Clinch, John Paulsell. Tuscaloosa, Samuel Patton, William M. Tazewell, William Patton. Curtiss. New-River, /. Green, J. Bowman, A. Franklin, Peyton Greaves, John R. Lam M'Cltire. beth. Ashe, John Bradfield. Marion, Wiley Ledbetter, John G. Lee. Abingdon, William P. Kendrick. Jones' Valley, Francis R. Cheatham, Holston, Abraham Still, David Adams. Daniel M'Leod. Carter's Valley, William S. Manson, Isaac Ashley Hewit, sup., Conference mis Lewis. sionary. Forked Deer Dist. Lewis Garrett, SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. P. Elder. Athens Dist. Samuel K. Hodges, Hickman, John Kisterson, Benjamin S. P. Elder. Clardy. Milledgeville, William Capers, stationed Wayne, R. Neely, R. Boyd, Af. Smith,stip. preacher, and superintendent of Asbury Florence, Nathaniel R. Jarratt. mission. Shoal, Elias Tidwell, Coleman Harwell. Cedar Creek, William Arnold, Alexander Beach River, John Kelly, Edward T. Edwards. Perry. F. Sparta, Thos. Sam/ord, Nathan P. Cook. River, Nathan Norvell, A. B. Sandy L. Alcovi, Anderson Ray, Benjamin Crane. Roszell. Broad River, John B. Chappell, Mark Obion, William Conn, William Mullen. Westmoreland. Forked Deer, Jonas L. Beloate, John Appalachee, Whitman C. Hill, Patrick Wrhite. N. Maddeux. Transferred to the Conference, Virginia Grove, Wiley Warwick. Joseph Carle, Lewellin Jones, Ephraim Monroe mission, George Hill. Jones, Felix Parker, William Hammit, Yellow River mission, Andrew Hamill. John Cannon, Harris, James D. Thomas Gwinett mission, William Parks. H. Cannon, John Kerr, John W. Witten. Oconee Dist. Allen Turner, P. Elder. MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE. Washington, Josiah Evans. Louisiana Dist. Ebenezer Hearn, Oakmulgee, Jesse Sinclair. P. Elder. Little Oakmulgee, James Dtmwody. Attakapas and Rapides circuits, Benjamin Ohoopi, John Bigby, Isaac Sewell. M. Drake, Thomas Clinton. Satilla, Elias Sinclair, James Tabor. Washitta, William Alexander. Liberty and Darien, Asbury Morgan. Mississippi Dist. Wm. Winans, P. Elder. St. Mary's and Amelia Island, Noah Laney. Natchez and Washington, John C. Bur- St. Augustine mission, Joshua N. Glenn. ress. Chatahoochee mission, John I. Triggs, Claiborne circuit, Daniel De Vinne, Mar John Slade. cus Henderson. Ogeechee Dist. Joseph Travis, P, Elder. Wilkinson, Meredith Renneau, Jonas Augusta, Lovick Pierce. Westerland. Washington, William Kennedy. Amite, John Seaton. Waynesborough, Peyton L. Wade. Pearl River, Miles Harper. Warren, Robert Flournoy, Benjamin Gor Whitesand, Edward Harper. don, sup. Alabama Dist. Nicholas M,Intyre, Little River, James B. Turner, Henry W P. Elder. Ledbetter. Chickasawhay cir., John I. E. Byrd, Ben Saluda, Robert L. Edwards, Abner F. jamin F. Liddon. Manly. Leaf River, Zechariah Williams. Abbeville, Jame s Donnelly, Elisha Askew. Tombeckbee, Henry P. Cook. Keewee, Matthew Raiford. Cedar Creek, Armstrong I. Blackburn, Louisville, Thomas Darley. Edmund Pearson. Edisto Dist. Lewis Myers, P. Elder. Conaco, Barnabas Pipkin, sup., Elijah B. Savannah, James O. Andrew, Edward J. M'Kay. Fitzgerald. Alabama, J. Butcher, Eugene V. Le Vert. Charleston, John Howard, William Han- Cahawba Dist. Alexander Sale, P. Elder. kins, Thomas L. Winn, Elijah Sinclair. Cahawba circuit, Thomas Owens, John Black Swamp, Archibald Purifoy. Patton. Cypress, John L. Greaves, Philip Groover. Minutes for 1823. 413

Orangeburg, John Murrow, Benjamin Columbia, Elijah Sparks, John Cannon. Gaines. Culpepper, George W. S. Harper, Wil Congaree, John Reynolds. liam Hammitt. Cooper River, Simon B. Abbott. Amherst, John Hales, Felix Parker. Broad River Dist. Henry Bass, William Eastwood has no station this P. Elder. year. Columbia, Nicholas Talley. Meherrin Dist. John Farley, P. Elder. Camden, Reuben Tucker. Petersburg, Hezekiah G. Leigh. Santee, Thomas Mabrey, Henry Segrest. Lynchburg, Thomas Crowder. Wateree, Travis Owen, David N. Burk- Bedford, Thomas R. Brame. halter. Buckingham, Henry Alley. Sandy River, Charles Betts, Green W. Mecklenburg, John Thompson, Mann Dut- Huekabee. ton. Newberry, Robert Adams. Greenville, Thompson Garrard. Enoree, Tillman Snead, Adam Wynck. Brunswick, Overton Bernard, Josh. Leigh. Reedy River, Barnett Smith, Samuel Amelia, Enoch Johnson, John Kerr. Sewell. Chesterfield, George C. Chesley, Benja Pee Dee Dist. William M. Kennedy, min W. Ogburn. P. Elder. Yadkin Dist. Lewis Skidmore, P. Elder. Georgetown, Samuel Dunwody. Granville, Peter Doub, John Craig. Black River, Nicholas Ware, Morgan Tur- Franklin, James Reid. rentine. Yadkin, Jesse Lee. Lynch's Creek, John Taylor, M'Currell Iredell, John C. Balhu. Purifoy. Salisbury, Joakim Lane. Little Pee Dee, John Boswell, Maloolm Guilford, Thacker Mnire. M'Pherson. Caswell, Russel B. Foster. Brunswick, Elisha Calloway, Joel W. Hillsborough, William Leigh. Townsend. Neuse Dist. Wm. P. Elder. Bladen, Compton, John W. Norton. Newbern, Ethelbert Drake. River, John H. Deep Robertson. Raleigh city, Thomas Howard. Fayetteville, Bond English. Raleigh circuit, Rufus Wiley. Wilmington, Daniel Hall. New- River, Benton Field. Catawba Dist. Daniel F. Christenbury, Beaufort and Straits, Joseph Carle. P.Elder. Black River, Benjamin Edge. Montgomery, William Knight. Tar River, William H. Star. Rocky River, Benjamin Rhodes, Ewell Haw River, Thos. Mann, John W. Wittin. Petty. Roanoke Dist. Henry Holmes, P. Elder. Creek, Freeman. Sugar Jeremiah Roanoke, Miles Nash, William D. Goode. Lincoln, John Daniel Asbury, H. Tred- Washington, Charles L. Cooley. well, sup. Swift Creek, Anson Chadwick. Union, Nathaniel H. Rhodes, John Co Mattamuskeet, David Ellis. vington. Banks and Islands, Ephraim Jones. French-Broad, Zaccheus Upper Dowling, Albemarle Sound, C. S. Mooring, sup., Charles Hardy. William W. White. Black Mountain, Josiah Freeman. Camden, Jacob Hill. Morganton, John L. Jerry. Norfolk Dist. Benjamin Devany, Asburv mission, Isaac Smith, Daniel G. P. Elder. M'Daniel. Norfolk, Caleb I^each, to change with G. VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. M. Anderson for three months. James River Dist. Peyton Anderson, Portsmouth, G. A. Bain. P. Elder. Princess Ann, Francis A. Ward, Bazzel Richmond, George M. Anderson, John F. Floyd. Andrew. Suffolk, Allen R. Bernard. Williamsburg, Robert Wilkinson. Surry, Isaiah Harris. Gloucester, Moses Brock, James Mor Sussex, Waddill Johnson, Christopher rison. Thomas. Hanover, Thomas B. Humphreys, Lewel- Murfreesborough, Samuel Harrol. lin E. Jones. . . Gates and Edenton, Exum Chapman. 414 Minutes for 1823.

BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Pittsburg Dist. Joshua Monroe, P. Elder. Bai.ti.mohe Dist. Lewis R. Fechtig, Pittsburg, Richard Tydings. P. Elder. Uniontown and Brownsville, Jas. Moore. Baltimore city, Joshua Soule, Samuel Redstone, John West', Henry Slicer. Kennedy , Chas. A. Davis, John Emory, Connelsville, Henry Baker, Wm. Morgan. sup. Somerset, John Strickler. Fell's Point, Job Guest, Charles Cooke. Mahoning, Rnb't Barnes, Jesse Chesney. Baltimore circuit, Andrew Hemphill, Wm. Chartiers, Thornton Fleming, Thomas Butler. M. Hudson. Severn, Eli Henkle, Richard Armstrong. Northumberland Dist. Henry Smith, Annapolis, Alfred Griffith. P. Elder. Calvert circuit, Frederick Stier, Joseph Bedford, John Taneyhill, William Hank, Rowen, George Wells. to change with F. M'Cartney after six Prince George, Basil Barry, Isaac Collins. months. Foundry, William Hamilton. Auckwick, Thomas M'Gee, John Bowen. Georgetown, James M'Cann. Huntingdon, John Rhodes, Francis M'Cart Montgomery, Christopher Frye, James ney. Paynter. Bald Eagle, Robert Minshall, Samuel Potomac Dist. Daniel Hitt, P. Elder. Bryson. Alexandria, William Ryland. Lycoming, Robert Cadden, Nathaniel B. Ebenezer, Yelverton T. Peyton. Mills, John Thomas, sup. Fairfax, Robert Burch. Northumberland, Jacob R. Shepherd, Loudoun, Stephen G. Roszel, Charles B. Mordecai Barry. Young. John G. Watt, sup. Shamokin, David Steel. Stafford, William Monroe, Wm. Brande- Carlisle Dist. John Davis, P. Elder. berry. Carlisle, John Baer. Fredericksburg, Charles B. Tippett. Carlisle circuit, Marmaduke Pierce, John Westmoreland, Norval Wilson, William N. Stuart. L. Gibson. York, Jacob Larkin. Lancaster, William Prettyman, Joseph Harford, Asa Shinn, John L. Gibbons. White. Great Falls, Edward Matthews, Thomas Dorsey. Winchester Dist. Gerard Morgan, J. Frederick, William C. P. Elder. Beverly Waugh, Pool. Winchester, James Reed, French S. S. Vinton. Evans. Chambersburg, Robert circuit, James M. Hanson, Rockingham, James Sewell, John Watson. Hagerstown Samuel Clarke. Staunton, Tobias Riley. Bottetourt, James Watts. PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE. Pendleton, John Miller, John A. Gere. Schuylkill Dist. James Bateman, South Branch, James Riley, John Howell. P. Elder. Alleghany, Robert Boyd, Wm. M'Dowell. Philadelphia — Berkley, Jacob L. Brumwell, James San- St. George's, William Thacher, Tho som. mas Burch, Daniel Parish. Jefferson, Caleb Reynolds, Philip D. Lip- Union, Henry White. secum. St. John's, William Williams. Monongahela Dist. George Brown, Kensington, Solomon Sharp. P. Elder. Bristol, Jacob Gruber, Daniel Fidler. Washington, Henry Furlong. Dauphin, John Woolson, Matthew Sorin. Wheeling, William Barnes. Lancaster, Henry Boehm, Wesley W. East Wheeling, Dennis B. Dorsey, John Wallace. B. West. Chester, Thomas Miller, William Allen. Ohio, Thomas Jamison, John Connelly. Wilmington, John Potts. Greenfield, Asby Pool, David Stevens. Newcastle and Newport, Henry G. King. Monongahela, Thomas Beaks, William H. Westchester and Coventry, William Chapman. Hunter, sup. Harrison, Peregrine G. Buckingham, Chesapeake Dist. Thomas Ware, Dennis M. Parrot. P. Elder. Lewis, Sbadrach Clianey, Samuel Ellis. Ezekiel Cooper, supernumerary. Minutes for 1823. 415

Smyrna, Samuel Grace, Joseph Holdich. Bordentown and Allentown, Wm. M'Len- JDover, John Smith, Edward Stevenson, ahan, sup. elder elect. NEW-YORK CONFERENCE. Caroline, James Long, Philip Dixon. Talbot, Geo. Woolley, Solomon Higgins. Nathan Bangs and Thomas Mason, book agents. Queen Ann's, James Smith, of Delaware, Daniel Lambdin. John M. Smith, principal of the Wes- Centreville, James Smith, of Baltimore. leyan Seminary. Kent, William Bishop, Joseph Osborn, Freeborn Garrettson, Conference mis - sup. sionary. Cecil, William Rider, Jesse Thompson. New- York Dist. Peter P. Sandford, Rock Run, John Goforth, sup. P. Elder. Delaware Dist. Lawrence Lawrenson, New-York city, EbenezerWashhurn, Ste P. Elder. phen Martmdale, P. Rice, John B. Cambridge, Wm. Torbcrt, John Bayne,. Stratten, Samuel Bushnell, E. Brown, Dorchester, Joseph Aydelott. Brooklyn, William Ross. j Somerset, Lott Warfield, Jas. B. Ayers. New-Rochelle, Heman Bangs, N. W. Annamessex, Wm. Leonard. John Henry. Thomas, Richard Seaman. Accomack, William Quinn, Levin Pretty- Stamford, Eli Denniston, Jarvis Z. man, William Smith, sup. Nichols. Snow Hill, Charles Reed, John Leden- Courtlandt, Elijah Woolsey, John B. ham. Matthias. Lewistown, John Finley, Thomas Smith, Croton, Marvin Richardson. sup. Suffolk, Jacob Hall, William M. Willett. Milford, Alward White, John Tdlley. Jamaica, Elijah Hebard, Horace Bartlett. Snow Hill and Poplartown, Asa Smith, Flushing, Luman Andrus, sup. sup. Carmel, Reuben Harris, sup. " West Jersey Dist. Jacob Moore, William Phoebus has no station this P. Elder. year. Cumberland, Edward Page, Eliphalet New-Haven Dist. Samuel Merwin, Reed. P. Elder. Bridgetown, Charles Pittman. Burlington, Henry Hatfield, Stephen L. Salem, Edward Stout, Richard W. Stillman. Petherbridge. Wethersfield, Eli Barnett, John Luckey. Gloucester, Watters Burrows, Jas. Moore. Hartford, Lewis Pease. New-Mills, Thomas Neal, David Daily. Middletown, Josiah Boioen. Burlington, Sylvester G. Hill, Joseph Durham, Smith Dayton, Aaron Pearce. Carey. New-Haven, Samuel Luckey. Trenton and Bloomsbury, Joseph Lybrand. Stratford, Lahan Clark, John Nixon. Freehold, John Walker, Wm. Lummins. Bridgeport, William S. Pease. Woodbury and Chew's Landing, Richard Redding, Sam'l Cochran, John Reynolds. Sneath, sup. Dutchess, Arnold Scholefield, Roswell Tuckahoe, Nathan Swain. Kelly. Poughkeepsie, Robert Seney. East Jersey Dist. Manning Force, Amenia, Cyrus Silliman. P. Elder. Goshen, Daniel Brayton, Elbert Osborn. Trenton circuit, Bartholomew Weed, Jas. Winstead, David Miller, Julius Field. M'Laurin. Ridgefield and Ridgeway, James Cole Asbury, David Bartine, Sam'l Doughty. man, sup. Sussex, George Banghart, Thos. Davis. Danbury and Weston, Aaron Hunt, sup. Hamburg, David Best, Wm. A. Wiggins. Bergen, Benjamin Collins, elder elect, RhinebeckDist. Henry Stead, P. Elder. James Aikens. Rhinebeck, James Youngs. Newark, John Creamer. Salisbury, Timothy Benedict, Parmele Essex and Staten Island, Lawrence Chamberlin. M'Combs, Isaac Winner. Granville, Gershom Pierce, Nathan Rice. Elizabethtnwn, Samuel S. Kennard. Windsor, Phinehas Cook. New-Brunswick, Joseph Rusling. Leyden, Moses Amadon, Robert Travis. Staten Island, James Polemus, sup. Petersburg, Phinehas Doan. 416 Minutes for 1823.

Pittsfield, Cyrus Culver, Samuel Eightny. Humphrey Humphreys, missionary to Chatham, Coles Carpenter, Theodosius the east end of Long Island. Clark. NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE. Hudson, George Coles. George Pickering, Conference missionary. Saratoga Dist. Eben Smith, P. Elder. Boston Dist. Edward Hyde, P. Elder. Sherman Minor, P. Montgomery, Wesley Boston city, Elijah Hedding,John Lindsey< Lake. Lynn Common, Daniel Fillnwre. Saratoga, Samuel Howe, Andrew M'Kain. Wood End, S. W. Wilson. Pittstown, Benj. Griffen, Jacob Beeman. Marblehead, James P. Harvey. Schenectady, James M. Smith. Salem, Jesse Fillmore. Heme, David Lewis, Henry Eames. Maiden, John Adams. Troy, Noah Bigelow. Cambridge, Leonard Frost, William Gran Cambridge, Sam'l Draper, John Lovejoy. ville. Warren, John Clark. Charlestown, Bartholomew Otheman. Ballston and Wil Spa Saratoga Springs, Scituate, Stephen Puffer, Benjamin Jones. Jacob, liam Anson, sup. , Elisha P. sup. Duxbury, T. C. Pierce, William Dyer. Champlain Dist. Buel Goodsell, P. Elder. Fairhaven and New-Bedford, Solomon Ticonderoga, Orrin Pier. Sias, E. T. Taylor, John N. Maffitt. Plattsburg, Ibri Cannon, Hiram Meeker. Martha's Vineyard, Francis Dane, sup., Chazy, Seymour London, William Todd. Frederick Upham. Phineas Grand Isle, Salmon Stebbins. Nantucket, /. Bonney, Crandal. St. Albans, James Quinlan, Lucius Bald Falmouth, Joseph Allen. win. Sandwich, Aaron D. Sargeant. Bates, Stowe, Samuel Covel, Elisha Dewey. Barnstable, Lewis George Weeks. Eastham, Nathan Bjrlington, Noah Levings. Pain*. Charlotte, James Covel, Cyrus Prindle. Wellfleet, Leonard Bennett, Samuel G Middlebury, John J. Matthias. Atkins. Warren Emerson. Brandon, Harvey De Wolf, Philo Ferris. Saugers, Whitehall, George Smith, Elijah Crane. New-London Dist. Joseph A. Merrill, P. Elder. Hudson River Dist. Daniel Ostrander, Ashburnham, Barzilla Pierce, William P. Elder. Barstow, Benjamin Paine. Albany, Tobias Spicer. Needham, Erastus Otis, George Fairbauk. Sillick, John Coeymans, Bradley C. Brookfield, Isaac Stoddard. Green. Wilbraham, Phineas Peck, sup. Sharon, Daniel I. Wright, Bezaleel Tolland, Joseph Ireson, John W. Case. Howe. Springfield, John W. Hardy. Delaware, John ' Bangs. Pomfret, Elias Marble, EphraimK. Avery. Jefferson, Jesse Pomeroy, Stew Quartus Hebron, Ebenezer Blake, Dan. Dorchester. art, Charles Pomeroy. Norwich, Isaac Jennison. John D. John Ken Kingston, Moriarty, New-London, Thomas W. Tucker. nedy. Warwick, Elisha Frink, Ella Dunham, Durham, Thomas S. Barrett. Caleb D. Rogers. Sullivan, Friend Draper, John Finnegan. Providence, Enoch Mudge. New- Windsor, Gilbert Friena W. Lyon, Bristol, Merritt. Smith. Timothy Somerset, Benjamin Hazelton. Newburg village, William Jewett. Rhode Island and Little Compton, Daniel Newburg circuit, Jesse Hunt, Nicholas Webb, Milton French. White. Mansfield, Heman Perry, Aaron Lummus. Chester and Goshen, Zalmon Lyon, sup. Milford, Hezekiah Thatcher, John E. John Summerfield, gone to Europe for Risley. the benefit of his health. When he re Ellington and Warehouse Point, Moses turns is to labour, as far as his appointed Fifteld, jun. health permits, as a missionary in the Baltimore Conference. Vermont Dist. Wilbur Fisk, P. Elder. Samuel D. Ferguson, missionary to Craftsbury, JohnG. Dow, Roswell Putnam. York Island, and west part of Long Lyndon, /. F. Adams, Samuel Kelley, Island. Orange Soott. Minutes for 1823. 417

Danville, David Kdbourti, John Foster. Vassalborough, Philip Munger. Barre, Samuel Norris, Hascall Wheelock. Fairfield, True Page. Montpelier, Wilder Mack, Henry Mayo. Penobscot Dist. Benjamin Jones, Barnard, John Lord, Isaac Barker. P. Elder. Wethersfield, Joel Steel, Nathaniel W. I lame I m. John S. Ayer. Aspenwall. Orrington, Oliver Beal. Athens, Elijah Spear, David Leslie. Penobscot, Thomas Smith, Wm. S. Dou- Unity, Abraham Merrill, Justin Spaulding. Vershire, Joel W. Af'JEee, Charles D. Dennysville, Heman Nickerson. Caboon. St. Croix, Ezra Kellogg. New-Hampshire Dist. Benjamin R. Thomastown, Stephen Lovell, M. Sander Hoyt, P. Elder. son. Portsmouth, Ephraim Wiley. Vinalhaven, David Richards. Salisbury, Sgvire B. Hascall. Columbia, Peter Burgess. Newmarket, John Brodhead, Daniel Union, Sullivan Bray. Fletcher. GENESEE CONFERENCE. Kingston, Eleazer Steel. Ontario Dist. Abner Chase, P. Elder. Rochester and Dover, Jotham Horton, Lyons circuit, Benjamin Sabin, William William M'Coy. Kent, J. B. Alverson, sup. • Pembroke, Concord, and Gilmonton, J. Ontario, Palmer Roberts, Denison Smith. Sanborn, H. Bullfinch, J. Templeton, Seneca, C. V. Adgate, N. B. Dodson, J. P. Ball. Gillmore, sup. Bridgewater, Caleb Dustin. Catharine, Gideon Lanning, Uriel Spencer. Sandwich, Charles Baker. Crooked Lake, James Kelsey, Robert Tuftonborough, Ezekiel W. Stickney. Parker. Canaan, Joseph Kellum, Nathan Howe. Canandaigua and Geneva, George Har Landaffand Orford, D. D. Culver, Young, mon, Joseph Gardner. Brown. Benjamin Canisteo and Bath, Thomas Wright, R. M. Lancaster, James B. H. Norris, N. S. Everts, Mark Johnston. Spaulding. Prattsburg, William Snout. Poplin and Salem, Orlando Hinds, sup., /. Randall, A. Buck. Oneida Dist. Charles Giles, P. Elder. Westmoreland, Zenas Jones, Isaac Stone. Portland Dist. Elisha Streeter, Weston, Joseph Baker, George White. P. Elder. Herkimer, Charles Northrop, Ephraim Portland, Josiah A. Scarritt. Hall. Kennebunk and Scarborough, John Briggs, Litchfield, Manly Tooker, Eli Allen. Hershell Foster. Otsego, Orrin Doolittle, John Roper. Buxton, Melville B. Cox. Paris, Elias Bowen. Conway, Gorham Greely. Utica, George Peck. Gray, Philip Ayer. Poland, James Jaquis, Gilman Moody. Chenango Dist. George Gary, P. Elder. Bethel, John Shaw. Chenango, Henry Peck, John S. Mitchell. Livermore, Benjamin Burnham, Job Pratt, Lebanon, Isaac Grant, Ebenezer Doolittle, Silas Frink. sup. Readfield, Henry True, Caleb Fogg. Pompey, Wm. Cameron, Timothy Good Durham, Abraham Holway, Wm. Gardner. win. Courtlandt, Brown, Kennebeck Dist. Eleazer Wells, Jos. Morgan Sherman. P. Elder. Marcellus and Manlius, Samuel Bibins, Nathaniel Industry, Daniel Wentworth. Salisbury. Scipio and Auburn, G. W. Densmore, Norridgewock, John Lewis. J. Hall, Chamberlain, Exeter, John Atwell. I. sup. Cayuga, Ira Fairbank, Dana Fox, Seth Unity, Samuel Plummer. Mattison, Bristol, J. L. Bishop, Nath'l P. Devereaux. sup. Homer, John , Georgetown, Ezekiel Robinson. Dempster. Bath, Joseph B. White. Black River Dist. Dan Barnes, Pittstown, E. F. Newell. P. Elder. Hallowell, David Hutchinson, Otis Wil Malone, Alexander Irwin. liams. Potsdam, Warren Banister. 87 418 Minutes for 1823.

St. Lawrencejsaac Smith,Roswell Parker. Bloomfield, Cyrus Story Indian River, William Jones. Rochester, Micah Seager, sup Le Roy, Enoch Barnes, Chandly Lambert, Sweden, John Cassert. sup. Elba, Jasper Bennett, Elias C. Warren. Watertown, Benjamin G. Paddock. Caledonia, Jonatlum Huestis. Black River, Truman Dixon, Squire Chase, Batavia, Asa Orcott, John Beggarly. Elijah King, sup. Orangeville, John Arnold. Sandy Creek, Hezekiah Field, John Er- Rushford, James S. Lent, Jonathan E. canbrack. Davis. Oswego, James P. Ailworth, Orrin Foot. Friendship, James Hazen, James B. Victory, Seth Young, Jonathan M. Brooks. Roach. Susquehannah Fitch Reed, Dist. Erie Dist. Glezen Fillmore, P. Elder. P. Elder. Ridgeway, Isaac Puffer, William Fowler. Wyoming, George Lane, Gaylord Judd. Lewiston, Ira Brunson. Canaan, Hiram G. Warren, Elisha Bibins, Lake, Parker Buel, Richard Wright. sup. North-East, to be Bridgewater, Caleb Kendall, Sophronius supplied. French Creek, Sylvester Carey. Stocking. Asa Abel. Broome, Horace Agard, John Sayre. Chetanque, Boston, Andrew Peck, John Bainbridge, John Griffing. Copeland. Aurora, Josiah Kies. Owego, John D. Gilbert. Buffalo, Zechariah Paddock. Spencer, Asa Cummings, Philo Barbary. Clarence, Elijah Boardman. Tioga, Philetus Parkus, Mark Preston. Wyalusing, Joshua Rogers, William Lull. Quest. 16. Where and when shall our Ithaca and Caroline, Loring Grant, William next Conferences be held t W. Rundell. 1. Ohio Conference, at Urbana, Sept. Upper Canada Dist. William Case, 4, 1823. P. Elder. 2. Kentucky Conference, at Mavsville, Niagara, Ezra Adams, William Ryerson. Sept. 24, 1823. Creek, John Parker. Lyons 3. Missouri Conference, at St. Louis, Ancaster and York, Isaac B. Smith, David Oct. 23, 1823. Culp. 4. Tennessee Conference, at Hunts- John Ryerson, Wm. Slater. Young-street, ville, Nov. 26, 1823. Long Point, Daniel Shepardson. 5. Mississippi Conference, at Natchez, Westminster, George Ferguson. Dee. 25, 1823. London, Robert Courson. 6. South Carolina Conference, Charles Thames, James Jackson, William Griffis. ton, South Carolina, February 19, 1624. Grand River mission, Alvin Torry. 7. Virginia Conference, Petersburg, Mission to the New Settlements, Thomas March 18, 1824. Demarest. 8. Baltimore Conference, Winchester, BavQuintie Dist. Henry Ryan, P. Elder. Va., April 6, 1824. Smith's Creek, Sarn'lBelton, Jos. At wood. 9. Philadelphia Conference, Philadel Belleville, Jacob Pool. phia, April 19, 1824. Hallowell, Philander Smith, David Wright. •»* General Conference, Baltimore, Bay Quintie and Kingston, Wyatt Cham May 1, 1824. berlain. 10. New- York Conference, (Wesleyan Augusta, Thomas Madden, Joseph Castle. Seminary,) New- York, June 1, 1824. Cornwall, William H. Williams. 11. New-England Conference, Bar Perth and Back Settlement mission, Frank nard, Vermont, June 22, 1824. Waldron. lin Metcalf, Solomon 12. Genesee Conference, at Lansing, Rideau, Ezra Healy, Charles Wood. Cayuga county, N. Y., July 25, 1824. Ottowa, Keneth M'K. Smith. 13. Canada Conference, (provided it be Genesee Dist. Goodwin Stoddard, set off by the General Conference,) at P. Elder. Hallowell, Upper Canada, August 25, Genesee, Andrew Prindte. 1824. 87*