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A HISTORY
OF THE
RISE OF METHODISM IN AMERICA
by
John Lednum
CHAPTER 37
In 1779, sixteen or seventeen preachers appear as new laborers, according to the Minutes. Two
of them, Thomas Morris and Stith Parham, desisted after one year.
Carter Cole, Greenberry Green, and Andrew Yeargan, continued in the work about two years.
Charles Hopkins was for the ordinances that the Methodists in the South adopted this year; and
when Mr. Asbury's influence suspended them he left the Methodists.
Mr. James Morris, of Virginia, desisted in 1785: he became a minister in the Protestant Episcopal
Church, -- he lived in love with the Methodists, and died, enjoying the comforts of religion, and the
hope of immortality.
Mr. Henry Ogburn, of Lunenburg county, Va., continued in the work, winning souls to Christ,
until 1790, when he located.
Mr. Richard Garrettson was a brother of the Rev. Freeborn Garrettson, of Harford county, Md.;
he, and Micaijah Debruler, who appears to have come from the same region, both entered the work
this year, and both retired into local life in 1784.
Mr. Samuel Rowe was from Virginia, near Yorktown. He was much admired as a preacher. The
Rev. Thomas Ware says he had a most tenacious and retentive memory; and used to say, "That, if
the Bible were lost, he thought he could replace, by his memory, the four Evangelists, the Acts of
the Apostles, the Epistle to the Romans, and the greater part of the Epistle to the Hebrews." He
desisted in 1785; and, we presumed became a minister in the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1785,
Mr. Asbury says, "I came to Mr. Rowe's: the son was once on our side; he has left us, and now we
have the mother."
John Hagerty was brought to enjoy experimental communion with heaven, under the preaching
of John King, about 1770, or 1771. In 1772, King made him leader of a class. He began to travel in
1779, and located in 1794. He was born in 1747, and died, in Baltimore, in 1823, at the age of
seventy-six.
It is probable that he was a native of Frederick county; and it seems he belonged to the original
society at Pipe Creek. If he was not of German descent, he was raised among them, and could preach
in both German and English. The Rev. Thomas Morrell, with many others, was awakened, and
brought in among the Methodists, through his ministry. After fifteen years in the itinerancy, he
settled in Baltimore. He was one of the original elders, constituted when the Church was formed.