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A HISTORY
OF THE
RISE OF METHODISM IN AMERICA
by
John Lednum
CHAPTER 46
In the Minutes of 1780 we find the names of George Moore, Stephen Black, Samuel Watson,
James Martin, Moses Park, William Partridge, James O. Cromwell, John James, Thomas Foster,
Caleb Boyer, and George Mair, as new laborers in the itinerant field.
Of Mr. John James' labors and success in New Jersey, this year, we have already given an account.
Useful as he was, he continued in the work but two years. Mr. Samuel Watson was located in 1783.
Mr. James Martin located in 1785. Mr. Moses Park continued in the work until 1790.
Mr. George Moore was one of Mr. Garrettson's converts, of 1778, in Broad Creek. His house was
one of the preaching places of that region. We make him the fourth preacher, from the state of
Delaware, who appears in the Minutes as an itinerant. His labors were confined to the Peninsula,
where he was useful in planting and building up Methodism. The last circuit he was on was Milford,
in 1792, having Solomon Sharp, who entered the work this year, for his colleague.
Mr. Stephen Black was of the Peninsula, not far from the Choptank. His house was a preaching
place, where a society was raised up about this time. He died in the work in 1781.
Mr. William Partridge was a native of Sussex county, Va., born in 1754; and born again in 1775.
After nine years he located, in which relation he remained for twenty-five years. In 1814 he
re-entered the itinerancy; and, in 1817, died in the Sparta charge in Georgia. He was one of the
brightest examples of piety in the church: professing and living sanctification. He thought he saw,
in his day, a departure from primitive simplicity among the Methodists, which was cause of grief to
his soul. He was fully prepared for his final summons to meet his Lord.
Mr. James Oliver Cromwell, we suppose, was a brother to Joseph Cromwell, of Baltimore county,
Md. He accompanied the Rev. Freeborn Garrettson to Nova Scotia, in 1785, where he labored about
two years, and then returned to the States; and in 1793 located. He was alive in 1806; living on
Baltimore Circuit, a "humble sweet-spirited old minister."
Mr. George Mair, according to the Minutes, was stationed on Philadelphia Circuit, in 1780. We
are not informed where he labored in 1781 and in 1782. Most likely he was following his secular
business, for the support of his family, the most part of these two years. In 1783 he was on Kent, in
Maryland. In 1784 he received his last appointment to Caroline Circuit. During this year he was
engaged in erecting the house that is called "Green's Chapel," below Camden, in Delaware. Near by
this chapel is a one-story brick house, fifteen by twenty feet, which was built this year by Mr. Mair,
to be a home for himself and his wife. One room served for kitchen, parlor, and bedchamber. He, like