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

The ninety-seventh at Old Town, on the 18th of June.
The ninety-eighth at Albany, on the 15th of July.
The ninety-ninth in Lynn, on the 1st of August.
The hundredth in Connecticut, on the 12th of August.
The hundred and first in New York, on the 25th of August.
The hundred and second in Philadelphia, on the 5th of September.
The hundred and third, at Duck Creek, on the 12th of September.
The hundred and fourth at Cokesbury, on the 22d of October.
It was upwards of eleven months from the time of holding the first of these conferences, until the
close of the last: of course there was no opportunity of getting the annual minutes printed and
circulated before the conferences began for the following year, and many of the preachers had taken
their stations for the next year; by which means, a correspondence with the old preachers was greatly
obstructed. For we could not tell where the preachers were stationed until we saw the minutes; and
by that time the stations or appointments were altered. There was a pretty general complaint on the
account of having such a number of conferences, and because of their continuing throughout the
whole year: and a reform in this point was desirable; but the bishop had the right of appointing the
number of conferences, and the time of holding them in each year: and we could not arrange the
business so as to have but few conferences in each year, until the general conference was held in
1796. We then fixed on a smaller number; and have never since had more than seven annual
conferences in a year.
At the conferences held this year, (1793) we took in 12 new circuits, which were as follows:
Swanino (which lay among the mountains) and Haw River, in North Carolina. Hingston, in the
Western country: and Washington, to the west of Baltimore. Freehold, in New Jersey. Herkimer and
Seneca-Lake, in the north parts, of New York state: Tolland and New London, in Connecticut:
Providence, in Rhode Island, was now called Warren. Providence of Maine, called so after the name
of the country, as no circuit had been formed in that part of New England. Prince George's in
Maryland; and Savannah, in Georgia.
A preacher was kept part of the year, in Savannah, and then it was given up without forming any
society; and no preacher was sent to that city again for a long time.
We admitted on trial upwards of forty young preachers this year; and added to the society 1451
members. Eighteen preachers located, and some of them had been traveling many years. Joseph
Cromwell, had traveled sixteen years; and others had been traveling from ten to thirteen years.