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ody, not in the unhappiness of their souls, which were connected with the source of infinite bliss through Christ, which turned their pain into pleasure, and made life or death gain to them.
A HISTORY OF THE RISE OF METHODISM IN AMERICA by John Lednum CHAPTER 62 A short chapter, containing some account of some of the Methodists in and about New York, during, and after the Revolutionary War. Israel Disosway, a descendant of the Huguenots, and a native of Staten Island, was a leading man among the Methodists on the island when they were first organized there. According to Brother Wakeley's account, the wife of Mr. Disosway was born the same year that Methodism was inaugurated in New York -- in 1766. At twenty-one, which was in 1787, she was married: her name was then on the class paper, Ann Doughty; the class must have been formed before 1787 -- some time between 1785 and 1787. Mr. Disosway was the leader when it was first formed. "The first quarterly meeting was held in his barn; and the timbers of the first Methodist church built on Staten Island, were cut from his trees." Bishop Asbury first notices this house in 1791, under date of September 2: "I preached in our new chapel to a large congregation," he says. This was on Friday; the text was "Jeremiah li. 50. It was a gracious season: after preaching, the society met." (Asbury's Journal, vol. ii., p. 115.) This chapel was built in 1790, or in 1791. Gabriel P. Disosway, thinks he has the first class paper of this island. "The first class paper, I presume, is now in my possession. At its head stands the name of my own pious father -- useful, beloved, holy, and gone to heaven. There are nineteen other names, which at that time embraced the whole of the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church on the island. As this old document is curious and interesting to many, I will here, for the first time, make a public record of it -- a small contribution towards the history of early Methodism upon Staten Island. The names of the members on the class paper: Israel Disosway, Abraham Cole, Hannah Cole, Peter Woglam, Judith Woglam, John Slaught, Ann Doughty, Susannah Cole, Christian Woglam, Ann Woglam, John Marshall, Sally Totten, Catharine Woglam, John Winnants, Ann Woglan, Peter Winant, Fanny Slaught, Nancy Totten, Priscilla Woglam. "Here is the small seed from which has sprung the abundant fruit in after years. Hallowed be the memories of this little Christian band! But one of their number remains -- a mother in Israel, lingering at a very advanced age. What a harvest since! We now number six churches, four stationed preachers, with large congregations; and we are blessed with the occasional ministration also of that faithful man of God, the venerable Henry Boehm, whose home is among us. "What region, embracing an extent of only some fourteen miles in length, and from two to four broad, with a population of sixteen thousand souls, can be more favored or more blessed with religious privileges? There are now thirty churches on Staten Island, and some twenty regular
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CHAPTER 38 Mr. Garrettson introduce
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CHAPTER 53 Methodism introduced int
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"1. In the year 1736, it pleased Go
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approached him I said, Well, grandf
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Methodist preaching was introduced
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held out promises of easily acquire
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six years he had made no public eff
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When Wesley Chapel was being erecte
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When he came to Albany, N. Y., abou
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in advanced years, considerable pro
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Germantown, Trenton, and Princeton.
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to bring their first church in this
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who daily pass by this house think
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In placing before the reader such n
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From the Rev. Thomas Ware's Life we
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Captain Webb having introduced Meth
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Mr. Joseph Pilmoor, on arriving in
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In the same region, and about this
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At this time there was not a more v
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The operation of the Holy Spirit wa
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In company with Samuel Selby, Mr. A
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These seven preachers were, Webb, B
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In the latter end of July, 1772, Mr
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J. Presbury's, and, after preaching
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out that her experience was identic
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never realized before the condition
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my mind, and that he would give me
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Deveau. The Rev. Sylvester Hutchins
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the Lord's day. His father made him
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appeared to be as plain to me as if
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stature, and of a very youthful app
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About this time Joseph Taylor, who
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shades of itinerancy in by-gone day
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"Nor was Col. North less distinguis
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At Mr. Hinson's, Mr. Asbury notices
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seventy years old. He then had two
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treacherous, and that the object wa
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my refusal the tavern keeper whispe
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The Ellis family was an important f
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From the Conference of 1775, two pr
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"Those that were in waiting hailed
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it does not appear that the Methodi
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to the Saviour, while she was yet y
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Lord would raise him up. He recover
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told him there was a dispensation o
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Mr. Downs asked Mr. Chew if he were
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more than conversing on the things
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Mr. Watters, from the Conference in
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and Moore; Crump, Price, Pegram, Pa
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Methodists, and after living a few
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ooks and tracts to him, to be distr
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several hundreds found the peace of
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Mr. T. Davidson, and his wife Mrs.
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the more zealous Christians are in
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violent persecutor, ran into the ho
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were put in a large vault under the
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opened his mission in America as ea
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headwaters of the Nanticoke, near B
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the next day. After lying in a swam
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He continued in this exercise, maki
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Garrettson showed him his sin in th
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conviction for sin as the result of
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meeting, and lasted six hours -- en
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Mr. Richard Ivy was a native of Sus
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There were a few Methodists in New
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Brown's sister being in the company
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of creature happiness. Mr. Abbott s
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His clear credentials God's own fin
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een instrumental in the conversion
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In this golden age, when different
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comfort in his confinement. Never w
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In North West Fork, Sussex county,
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of their head men, moving out of th
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Bartholomew Ennalls were early Meth
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Barratt's Chapel is memorable on ac
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her husband, professed and exemplif
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When camp meetings were adopted by
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Herman first settled in the town of
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meetings), Mr. Boehm and five or si
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His twenty-third appointment was, u
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In 1780, in Monmouth county, Job Th
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learned to sing Light Street to the
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Virginia. Benjamin Boydstone and hi
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German Presbyterian minister; also
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chapel. After paying his first visi
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to the cook; she loves to hear the
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men preach the truth!" The father l
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almost all worldly business. In Gen
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his name appeared in the Minutes. H
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and some were fully awakened." He w
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In this unhappy state she continued
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evil of her, and hated her company.
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time, to distribute his well tried
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since abandoned this apostolic plan
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preachers found their way into it.
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prospering; and especially among th
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to Long Island, until he resolved i
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intercourse with the Methodists, th
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of them has been tried; as to untri
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out of the house with airs of disre
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Mr. Russel was raised in the Church
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Carpenter's son, the late Rev. Char
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In 1852, James Smith, a preacher fo
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enlarged and improved in 1835. The
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in her mind, "Be not forgetful to e
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took her place at court. She was bu
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The new brick M. E. Church in Smyrn
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