A History Of The Rise Of Methodism In America - Media Sabda Org

O Jacob, and thy tabernacles (camp meetings), O Israel!" Many of the Budd's have been in church
fellowship with the Methodists, and a fair proportion of them were preachers.
Mr. Daniel Heisler joined the Methodists in New Mills, in 1773; he was leader of a class. He
moved to Maurice's river, where he served in the capacity of class leader and steward, for twenty-five
years. He afterwards moved to Christiana, Del., where he was a leading man among the Methodists.
After he had been a Methodist fifty-four years, thirty of which he professed and exemplified
sanctification, he died in his seventy-fourth year, and was buried at Newark, in New Castle county.
Catharine, daughter of Mr. Ezekiel Johnson, was the first white child born in New Mills. She was
one of the first Methodists in the place. She married William Danley, a local preacher, who seems
to have been a member of the same society. They moved to Port Elizabeth. Losing her husband, she
married Mr. Ketchum, and after his death Mr. Long. After she had sojourned with the Methodists
sixty years, she departed this life, in her eighty-third year.
In April, 1773, the foundation was laid of the first Methodist chapel in New Jersey. Mr. Asbury
does not tell us where it was, but some suppose that it was the first Methodist chapel in Trenton; he
says it was thirty by thirty-five feet. Vol. i., p. 48. It was not the New Mills House, which many
suppose was the first meeting house founded by them in the province; and, which he describes, vol.
i., p. 136, as being twenty-eight by thirty-six feet.
He says, "At New Mills I found Brother W., very busy about his chapel, which is thirty-six feet
by twenty-eight, with a gallery fifteen feet deep. I preached in it, from Matt. vii. 7, with fervor, but
not with freedom, and returned to W. B." (most likely William Budd). "Lord's day (May 5, 1776),
I preached at New Mills again, and it was a heart affecting season." Mr. Asbury did not visit this
region again for five years, when, in 1781, the fame of Benjamin Abbott, who had just made his
famous preaching tour in Pennsylvania, led him into New Jersey, to see and hear this wonderful
preacher. Vol. i., p. 325.
From the above we see that the New Mills house was opened for worship about 1776. It was the
second chapel founded in the state by the Methodists, about 1774 or 1775.
[See reference to the following passage in the Introduction] Trenton was founded in 1719,
forty-two years after Burlington, by William Trent, who had previously been a citizen of
Philadelphia. About 1700 he purchased the famous "slate-roofed house," as it was then called, which
had been built by Samuel Carpenter, whose descendants are found about Salem, in New Jersey. He
was the greatest improver of Philadelphia, in its incipiency, that lived in it. This house, now the only
relic of the time in which it was erected, i. e., about 1690, stands on the southeast corner of Second
street and Norris' alley. No one should attempt to separate its bricks and mortar, which have adhered
together for more than one hundred and seventy years; in it William Penn lived, on his second and
last visit to Pennsylvania; his son John, the only one of his children born in America, was born in
it. Lord Combury, Queen Anne's cousin, and governor of New York and New Jersey, sojourned in
it. Governor Hamilton lived in it. General Forbes and General Lee, who was such a churchman that
he did not wish to be buried near Presbyterian dead, were both buried from this house; and John
Adams, when attending Congress in this city, boarded in it; and, yet, how few of the many hundreds