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A SHORT HISTORY
OF THE
METHODISTS
By
Jesse Lee
CHAPTER 12
Containing a list of all the itinerant Methodist preachers who have laboured. in connection with
the Methodist conference.
I have divided the preachers into the first, second, third, and fourth classes or divisions.
The first class of Methodist preachers, includes all who began to travel from the year 1769, to the
close of 1784, at which time we received ordination among us, and became a church.
The second class of Methodist preachers, includes all who began to travel from the beginning of
1785, to the first general conference in the year 1792.
The third class of Methodist preachers, includes all that began to travel from the year 1793 to
1800, including eight years.
The fourth class of Methodist preachers, includes all that began to travel from the year 1801 to
1806.
The admitted dates denote the period when those preachers began to travel.
Those without a designation are considered as traveling preachers still, and are entitled to a seat
in our conferences. A few of them are supernumeraries, and some are superannuated or worn-out
preachers.
THE FIRST CLASS, OR DIVISION,
OF
METHODIST PREACHERS,
From the year 1769 to 1784.
John Wesley, the founder and father of the Methodists, formed the first society at Oxford, in
November, 1729, and sent the first itinerant preachers to America in 1769. He died 1791.
Charles Wesley, the first to whom the appellation of Methodist was given at Oxford, in 1729,
during his brother's absence in Lincolnshire. He died 1788.