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A SHORT HISTORY
OF THE
METHODISTS
By
Jesse Lee
CHAPTER 13
From the beginning of the year 1807, to the end of 1809.
In 1807, we had our conferences as follows:
The 205th conference was held at Ebenezer, in Tennessee, on the 15th of September 1806.
The 206th at Sparta, in Georgia, on the 29th of December 1806.
The 207th in Newbern, on the 2d of February 1807.
The 208th in Baltimore, on the 2d of March.
The 209th in Philadelphia, on the 2d of April.
The 210th at Coeyman's Patent, on the 2d of May.
The 211th in Boston, on the 2d of June.
This year we took in several new circuits. In the Western conference we took in West Point,
Missouri, Oachitta, White River and Licking. In the Southern conference we took in Ohoopee and
Savannah. In the Virginia conference, Iredel and Rocky Mount. In Baltimore conference, St. Mary's
and Canestio. In Philadelphia conference, Cumberland and Holland-Purchase. In New York
conference, Schenectady. In New England conference, Stanstead and Conaway.
At these conferences we admitted upon trial a few more than 100 young preachers; and lost out
of the traveling connection thirty-seven. Thirty-two of them located, and three died: one left us, and
one was expelled. Those who died were Richard Whatcoat, James Lattomus, and Peter Jayne.
1. Richard Whatcoat, was a native of England, born in Gloucestershire; he became a traveling
preacher, in the year 1769. He traveled extensively through England and Ireland; and in the latter end
of the year 1784, he came to the United States of America; and at the Christmas conference, he
assisted in the ordination of Mr. Asbury. He laboured among us after that, in various stations, in
towns, cities, circuits and districts, until the year 1800, he was then ordained a bishop by the laying
on of the hands of Dr. Coke, Mr. Asbury, and some of the elders: after which he traveled at large till
he died. He traveled and preached in Europe and America 37 years. He attended the conferences in
the south in the preceding year, that is in 1806, and continued to travel to the north as far as Dover
in Delaware state, and there he yielded to his afflictions, and could go no further, and did not attend