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

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1 See Extracts by Bishop Morris, "from the Journals of the Western Conference" in Western Christ.
Advocate, Jan. 8, 1851. A blank stands for Poythress' name in these extracts, but I am certain that
I do not mistake it.
2 Bangs records him (Alphabetic List) as "located" in 1801, but erroneously; there is no record of
his location in the Minutes.
3 Boehm's Reminiscences, p. 323.
4 Finley's Sketches, p. 136.
5 Fry's Life of McKendree, p 45.
6 In the Meth. Mag for 1821, p.189, is an account of these first meetings, from the pen of John
McGee himself.
7 The number that fell at this meeting was reckoned at about three thousand, among which were
several Presbyterian ministers, who, according to their own confession, had hitherto possessed only
a speculative knowledge of religion. -- Bang's Hist. ii, p. 108.
8 Fry's McKendree, p. 68.
9 Autobiography of a Pioneer, etc. Cincinnati, 1857.
10 Minutes, 1805.
11 The Minutes indicate 1800 as the date, but he really arrived at Natchez in the spring of 1799.
There is "demonstrative evidence" of the latter fact "from private family records." -- Notice of Rev.
James Grilling, by Rev. J. G. Jones, in the "New Orleans Christian Advocate." The date of this
"Notice" I have lost, though I have the "article" on file. Bishop Wightman, in an allusion to Gibson,
(Biog. Sketches of Itinerant Minister p. 29. Nashville, 1858,) gives 1702 as the true year. Such an
epoch is not without importance, not only to the locality, but to the general Church.
12 "Extracts of Letters, etc., p. 95. New York, 1805.
13 His appointment to Natchez appears first in the Minutes of 1805; but the Western Conference,
then reported, was held in October, 1804. This irregularity of dates affects many other matters of
Western Methodist history in these early times.
14 Minutes, 1816.
15 Rev. J. B. Finley.