History of the M.E. Church, Vol. IV - Media Sabda Org

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1 Bishop McTyeire's Sketch of Nolley, in "Biographical Sketches," p. 264.
2 Biographical Sketches, p. 266.
3 Methodist preachers generally in the South, in these early days, instructed the Negroes at night, as
the latter were kept hard at work during the day. Many of them perished by this toil, superannuated
to their daily preaching to the whites.
4 Bishop McTyeire.
5 Sprague, p. 441.
6 Minutes of 1816, and Finley's "Autobiography," p. 342.
7 Bishop McTyeire.
8 Ebenezar Hearn, (one of his successors there,) in Sprague, p. 443.
9 "Having preached my last sermon in St. Mary's courthouse, La., on leaving I observed a stir among
the slaves: they were making up a donation for me. It was gracefully presented, and amounted to fifty
cents. Small as it was, it has never been forgotten." -- Letter to the Author.
10 Rev. Dr. Drake, "Biographical Sketches," etc., p. 238. It should be stated, however, that the
Conference was, de facto, formed as early as 1813. The General Conference of 1812 authorized its
organization "whenever it should seem expedient;" and as, during the war, from 1812 to 1815, the
preachers could not pass through the Indian country to the Tennessee Conference, they "assembled
on the first of November, 1818, at the residence of Newit Trick, a local preacher, living near Spring
Hill Church, in Jefferson County, Mississippi, and organized themselves into a quasi Conference.
This first informal Conference was composed of Samuel Sellers, Miles Harper, Lewis Hobbs,
Thomas Griffin, John S. Ford, William Winans, Richard Nolley, and John Shrock. William Winans
was elected secretary, and the business was conducted in regular order. Three other similar sessions
were held without a bishop, at which they received and elected preachers to orders, passed upon each
other's character, collected their statistics, planned their work, assigned the preachers to their fields
of labor, and then sent their minutes to the Tennessee Conference for approval, in order to their
incorporation in the general Minute." -- Rev. J. G. Jones in New Orleans Christian Advocate.
11 Rev. Dr. Drake, Annals of South. Meth., 1856, p. 265.
12 Bishop Andrew, in Sprague, p. 121.
13 Rev. Dr. McFerrin, in Sprague, p. 211.
14 Roberts had hardly yet begun his episcopal travels in the West, his first duties being in the East.