A Short History Of The Methodists... - Media Sabda Org

The eighty-first at the New Mills, on the 12th of July.
The eighty-second in New York, on the 19th of July.
The eighty-third in Lynn, on the 1st of August.
The eighty-fourth in Albany, on the 15th of August.
The eighty-fifth was a general conference, which was held in Baltimore on the 1st of November.
It was just eight months from the time the bishop began to hold these annual conferences, until
he finished them. He began them on the 15th of December, and the last was on the 15th day of
August.
At these conferences we took in eleven new circuits, which are as follows:
In North-Carolina two, Scopealong and Trent. And one in the south called Highco. In Georgia
two, Oconee, and Elbert. Two in New York, Staten Island, and Tioga. One in Massachusetts, called
Needham; one in Rhode Island called Providence; and two in Canada, Cataroqua and Oswegochee.
We admitted on trial upwards of fifty young preachers, and added to the society 2314 members
this year. But several of the preachers located, viz.
Benjamin Brown, William Heath, John Easter, Sihon Smith, Michael Burdge, John Andrew,
Wheeler Grissom, Charles Hardy, Thomas Williamson, John Paup, Lewis Chasteen, Michael Lard,
and William Phoebus.
Two preachers were expelled from the connection, Beverly Allen, and Andrew Harpending.
Three preachers died this year, namely, Thomas Weatherford, aged 56: upwards of four years a
labourer in the vineyard of the Lord: of slender system. But what was best of all, he lived the gospel,
and died triumphant in the Lord.
Peter Massey, under the profession of religion for some years. He laboured faithfully in the
ministry for upwards of three years, and was confirmed and established in the grace of God. An
afflicted man, who desired and obtained a sudden death, by falling from his seat; he expired on the
19th of December 1791, about nine o'clock in the morning, at Cumberland, on the western waters.
George Browning, two years and a half in the ministry, a serious and devoted man, who died in
peace, and rested from his afflictions, in hope of eternal glory, which God has promised to faithful
souls.
At this time, 1792, we had about one hundred members in society, in the states of Connecticut
and Massachusetts; the only states in New England where we had any societies formed. But we now
for the first time formed a circuit in the state of Rhode Island.