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lVIINUTES

OF THE

ANNU AL CONFERENCES

OF Toe

METHODIST EPISCOP AL CHURCH, SOUTH,

Fon THE YEARS

1849-1850.

PUBLISHED BY JOHN EARL Y, FOR. THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH.

1". D. BERNARD pRINTER

BISHOPS OF THE

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH. JOSHUA SOULE, D. D.

JAMES OSGOOD ANDREW, D. D.

\VILLIAM CAPERS, D. D.

ROBERT PAINE, D. D.

MINUTES.

I.-KENTUCKY CONFERENCE, September 12-21, 1849.

Quest. 1. What preachers are admitted on triall

Jacob Brilhart, ,\Vnrwick Briscoe, Ivy H. Cox, George S. Eaton, Gilbert Gibbs, William C. l\IcPheters, Anselm Minor, John L. SCOlf, William J. Snively, Wm. M. Vize, H·azael Williams, Lewis G. Woods.-12.

Quest. 2. Who remain on triall Samuel L . .IMams, (an Elder,) Monroe

T. Brooks, Benjamin F. Gatch. Jonathan K. Hedges, Hobert Hiner, Paul H. Hoff­man, Michael Lancaster, Franklin W. Phillip3, Joseph Rand, Joseph H. Wright, Simon B. CameroD, George L. 'Varner, Caleb 1'. Hill.-12.

Quest. 3. fVho are admitted into full connexicin 1

Jesse D. H. Corwine, William J. Fer. guson, (an Elder,) Samuel F. Johnson, William G. Johns, Milton Piles, William M. Prottsman, (a D~acon,) Christian 1\1. SuHi\'an, Bicharcl McI{cndree Tydings, Abraham 'V. Thompson.-9.

Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons 1

Henry N. Hohbs, who has travelJed four years j PresIon Bon(I, James Law­rence, James C. Minor, Joel \Y. Ririgell, Morlon Scott, Isaac W. B. Taylor, Ezra C. 1'hornton, who hr\\'e t\'avelled three years i anr! Jesse D. II. COl'wine, Samuel F. Johnson, Willinm G. Johns, Milton Pile~. Christ ian M. Sulliran, Hicharrl McKenllree 1'yding-s, nnd Abraham '\\". 'rhornpson, who have travelled two years nnd been ordained at the preaenL con­fel'ence.-15.

Ql1es. 5. Who have heen elected and or­dained EMers t!tie year ?

Peler V. Ferrep, Hugh Rankin, Thos. F. Van Meter, Wm. 1\1. Pl'oltsman.-4.

Quest. 6, Who have located this year 1 Leroy C. Danley, Francis M. English,

'Viiliams B. Kavanaugh, Thomas B. Lynch, '\Vesley G. Montgomery, George \V. Buniss, Thomas 1(. Coleman.-7.

Quest. 7. Who are the Supernumeraries? Samuel A. Latta, William B. Landrum,

George W. Maley, Peter V. Ferree, Henry N. Hobbs, R. McKendree Tydings.-6.

Quest. 8. riJTho are the superannuated or worn out preachers?

'Villiam Atherton, 'Vm. Burke, Tsaac Collorrl, John C. Hardy, Thomas H. Ma­lone, John Tevis, Samuel Vench.-7.

Quest. 9. Who have been expelled from tI,e connexion this year 1

None. Quest. 10. Who have 'lvithdrawn from

the connexion this year? Jos. A. ·Waterman is reported to have

joined the Protestant Methodist Church.

Quest. 11 . .I1re all the Preachers blame· less in life and conversation?

Their characters were examined and approved one by one.

Quest. 12. Who have died this year? Not one. Que::t. 13. rVhat numbers are in Society 1 L~xi1/glon Dis/riel.

Whites. Col. llarrodslu1g Dis/rict.

Whites. Col. Lexington 301 5(;5 Harrodsb'g 210 )37 Franktim 150 400 Danville 156 38 Versaillel" & Perryville 4i8 110

Nich'sville 1;5 225 Lancaster 4H 70 Jessamine & Hichmond 446 11-13

Woodford 460 40 Crab Orch'd 2-H3 33 ·Winchester Salvisa 393 128

& Ebenezer 96 262 Somerset 457 40 'Vinchester :129 72 Liberty Mis. 220 8 Mt. Sterling :MO 73 Georgetown 231 390 3087 747 }<'r'kHn Sp'gs 58 Jl

2140 2038

214

SMlbyvilllJ District. Whites. Col.

Shclhyville 156 ]33 Shelby Cir't 392 160 Taylorsville 188 70 Lawrenceb'g248 35 B100IuUelJ. 477 202 Lagrange 450 66 Newcastle & Bedford 829 299

Carrol ton 100 35 Owenton 351 2 Lockport 297 14

3-188 1016 Covingt01~ District.

Covington: East 302 30

Covington:

Kentucky Conference, 1849.

Parkersburg District. Whites. Col.

makp. up the deficiencies of those tono have not obtained their allowance on the cirCUits, and for the Bishops?

Parkersburg 130 7 L. Kanawha 493 10 Ra venswood 220 Ripley 384 Pt. Pleasant 220 K. Salines &

SEVEN THOUSA.ND FIVE UUNDRED A.ND

~ FIFTY·NINE DOLL_\RS.

Quest. 15. What has been collec1ed on 6 the foregoing accounts,.and hoto has it been 2 applled? 6 From al1 sources, we have obtained six

Ebenezer 150 Summerv.ilIe234 Fayette 204 Greenbrier 84 Braxton 142 Spring Creekli6

hundred and ninety·two dollars and twen­ty cenls, which has been applied as fol.

2437 44 lows: Guyandotte District. 'fa the superannuated preachers, two

Guyandotte 85 hundred and fort (·-three dollars: to the Cabel 300 J.

Charleston 400 7 widows and orphan~, one hundred and Soule Chao 120 Soule Chap.

Cin. 310 Newport 169

Wayne 248 tv.'enty-one doliars and twenty cents ito 5 ~~~~:Ville 4~~ ~ the deficiem preachers, forlyeight dol· 5 Little Sapdy 296 12 lars; to the Bishops, two hundled and Alexandria 471

Falmouth 323 Paris&Mil-

70 Greenupsb'g298 30 eighty dollars.

iersburg 188 143 Cynthiana 510 14L Leesbu rg 522 273 Crittenden 365 94 Burlington 338 9

36·18 770 Maysville District.

Maysville 153 30 Minervaand Germant'n 795 140

Sbannon 5 t3 48 Orangeburg 189 33 Lewis 373 11 Flemin~s'g 1004 175 Moorfield 262 10 Owingsville 276 48 ~i$.hl~nd

MlSSlOn 277

3.::45 496

N. Liberty 354: If> Quest. 16. What has been contributed 2487 76 f01' tIle support of missions; 10hat for· Sun.

Barboursvillf! District. day school books; and what to aid the Barborsville 349 28 J1merican Bible Society and its auziliarietf. Piketon 223 4: F h f M· - fir: P L b'D' 250 10 or t e support 0 IsslOns, .Ieen J;~ksoo':: b 338 10 hundred and five dollars and eighteen Irvine 338 16 cents j for Sunday School Books, four London and hundred and seventy-one dollars and Manchester24~ 2482 ninely.three cents' nnd to aid the publica-

ML. Pleasant29.>. - . . ' . Williamsb'g 123 lion of Bibles, fi,-e hundred and sixty dol-Letcher Mis. 152 lars and eighty.one cents.

2214 138 Quest. 17. Where are the preacher8-st4-tioned this year?

LEXINGTON DISTSICT. Thomas JV'. Ralston, P. E.

RECAPITULATION.

Lexington-John Miller, Peter V. Fer­ree, sup.

Lexington Dislrict Harrodsburg District Shelbyville District Covington Distrlct Mavsville District Parkersbnrg District Goyandotte Di~trict Barboursville District

Local Preachers

Total this year Total lallt year

Whites. ~140 3087 3488 3648 3R45 2437 2487 2:H4

23346 235

235RL 2~i70

Colored. 2038

747 1016 770 496 41 76

138

&325

5325 !)oW

Increase 8tl 30n

Q nesl_ 14. JJThat amount.~ are necessary for the superannuated preachers and the widows and orphans of pJ'eachers, and to

Frnnkfort-George TV. Brush.. Verda i Ile:l nnd 1'\ ichulu.;;\'iHe- William H.

.!1ndersor.. Jessamine and W'oorlforc1-Jno B. Ewalt. Winchester and Ebenezer-William C.

Dandy. North Middletow:l-John C. C. Thomp­

son. MOllnt Slirlinr!'-l/artwell J_ Perry. Georgetown--Scraiak S. Deering, Wm.

J. Snin-Iy. Fmnldm Springs-George $. Eaton.

lJenry R. lJascom is Edilor of tl:e QllaTlerh'lle\,iew, nocl Chairman of Ihe Board of CornlTli~sionNs of Ihl' J\'tclholfist Episcopal Churr:h, SOlllh, by appoint· ment of lhe General Conference.

Kentucky Conference, 1849. 215

HARRODSBURG DISTRICT. Benjamin T. Crouch, P. E. Harrodsburg-Samuel L . .9..dams. Danville-Edmund P. Buckner. .Perryville-Josiah Godby. Lancaster-William P. Read. Richmond-Carlile Babbitt, Simon B. Ca-

meron. Crab Orchard-James C. Minor. Sah'isa-GeorgeS. Gatewood. Somerset-'Villiam G. 10hns. Liberty mis.-Anselm Mioor.

SHELBYVILLE DISTRICT. John C. /larrison, P. E. Sklelby,'ille-Lorenzo D. Huston. Shelby circuit- Wm. R. Price, Richard

McK. 'l'ydinsrs, sup. Tay]orsville- WiLLiam Gunn. Lawrenceburg-George Y. Taylo~. BloomfielJ-Moses Levi, Hasael S. W'il·

Iiams. Lagrange-Drummond Welburn. Newcastle and Bedford-Franklin W.

Phillips. Carrohon-Jame.; Lawrence. Overton-Tfm. C. Atmore, Thomas Hall. Lockport-Morton Scott.

COVINGTON DISTRICT. William M. Grubbs, P. E. Covington: East.-Geor~e W. Smiley.

Soule Chapel-Joseph J. Hill. Newport-Soule Chapel: Cincinnati-Hubbard H.

Kavanaugh, S. A. Lattu, and George W, .ll'1aley, ~lIp.

Alexandria-·Samuel Glassford. Falmouth-Robert Hiner. Millersbnr,g- & Paris-John S . .J\IJcGee. Cynthiana-Jno. G. Bruce, Richard Hold·

ing. Leesbllrg-Tllomas Rankin. Critlf'nden-Josepo HAnd. Burlin!!ton-mlen F. Scruggs, Jessee D.

H. Conville.

MA YSVrLLE DISTRICT. William .Me n . .R.Mell, P. E. Maysville-J'lsrp'l Cross. J\Jinerva--Samuet L. Robertson. GermLlI1!own-llf)berlSOll E. Sidebottom. Shanr,oll--Jededlan Fosler, Lewis G.

I1 icks. Ol'an~ebnrg-Thomas F. 'Van JUeler. Lewiil- Wllli.tID 1\1. Vize.

Flemmingsburg-Wm. D. Trainer, Mon· roe T. Brooks.

Poplar Plains-Joel W. Ridgell. Moorfields-John James. Owin~sville-Elkanah Johnson . Highland mission-.!1lexander B. Sollers.

PARKERSBURG DISTRICT. William R. Babcock, P. E. Parkersburg- William B. McFarland. Little I<:anawha-Stephen.9.., Rathbun. WiJliamsport-Gilbert Gibbs. Ra venswoood-Ransom Lancaster. Ripley-Caleb T. Hill. Point Pleasant-William Bickers. Charleston-William H. Harrison. Spring Creek-Jonathan K. Hedges.

GREENBRIER DISTRICT. Stepllen K. Vaught, P. E. Malden-Samuel P. Cummins. MOllth of Sandy Ri\'er--Samuel Black. Braxton-Michael Lancaster. Summersville-John F. Van Pelt. Fayelle!..-Abrnham \V. Thompson. Greenbrier-William M. P7'ottsman.

GUY AN DOTTE . DISTRICT. Samuel Kelley, P. E. Guyandotte & Cabel-Orson Long, Jo-

seph H. Wlight. Wayne-George L. ,\\1' arner. Louisa-Christian M. Sullivan. Paintsville-Hugh Rankin. Little Sandy--(To be supplied.) Greenupsburg-Ezra C. Thornton. North Liberty-Jacob Brilhnrt. Logan mission-Lewis G. \Voods. Coal River rnission-'Vacwick Briscoe.

BARBOURSVILLE DISTRICT .. .9..ndrew M. Bailey, P. E. Barboursville--Benjamin F. Gatch. Piketon--John L. Scott. Prestonsburg-Paul H. Hoffmnn. Jackson- \\ il/iam C. l\1cPheters. Ir\'ine-Preston Bond, Henry N. Hobbp.

sup. London & Mancbesler-William B. Lan-

drum, Slip.

Monnt Pleasant-Milton Piles. Pike mission-Ivy H. Cox. LetC'her rnis::ion--lFaac W. B. Taylor.

Wzlliam J. l'trgus()n transfened to Louisiana Conference.

216 Miss()uri Conference, 1849.

Sam1Jel F. Johnson transferred to Lou­isville Conference.

Quest. 18. Where and when shall our • ezt Uonference be held?

A~ Cynthiana, Ky., at stich time as the Bishops shall appoint at their next meeting .

2.-MISSOURI CONFERENCE, September 26. 1849.

Quest. I. Who are admitted on trial? William Shaw, Mi.hlleton. R. Jones,

Isaac Naylor, Samuel W. Cope, William M. Wood, William H. Saxton-6.

Quest. 2. Who remain on trial? Robert C. f-latton, \Villiam M. Sutton,

Willis E. Dockl'ey. James A. Light, Henry 1\1. 'rumer, Litle W. l\loore, John P. Keen, William D. Coxe.-8.

Quest. 3. Who are admitted intI) full fonnezion?

Richard Minshall, James Barker-2.

Quest. 4. JiVllO are the Deacons? (Those marked thus * were ordained

this year.) Larkin Adamson, James L. Sheive, James B. Callawny, Arth1ll" E. Sears, WiLliflm A. Mayhew, Jeremiah F. Riggs, William '1'. Ellington, Henry W. Piery, James D,trker*, Richard Min­ahall*-lO.

Quest. 5. Who have been ordained and elected Elders this year?

Alexander Spencer, John lV. Ellis, Robert R. Dunlap-3.

Quest. 6. Who llave located this year? Jonathan K. Hawkins, James L.

Sheive.-2. Quest. 7. Who are the supernumerary

preachers· ? 'Villiam Ketron.

Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated preachers?

Jacob Sigler, John F. Gray. H1Igh L. Dodds, Joshua Wilson, Tyson Dines--5.

Q1lest. 9. Who have been expelled from 'he connexion this year?

None.

Quest. 10. Who have withdratr:n this 'I tOT 1

None.

Quest. 11. Were all the Preachers' chao raeters examined?

This was strictly attended 10.

Quest. 12. Who Ilave died tltis year? Alexander Best. (No Memoir fur·

nished.) Quest. 13. What numbers are in society?

St. ChaTlcfi Distrid. Whites. Col.

St. Chas. ct. 393 109 Warrenton 250 17 Danville 326 45 Portland 219 37 Fullt'n 354 114 Mexico mis. 157 25 New London

mis. Louisaina Auburn

177 4 314 173 149 48

2339 572 Columbia District.

Whites. Col. Putnamville

miSSIOn 147 4 Linneus mis.2iO 3 Alhens mis. 103

2695 147 Weston District.

Plane Ciry 475 11 'Ves~on sta. 115 35 St. Joseph's

Malion 80 2 Savannah ]98 ~6 Oregon lIlis. 108 2

Columbia & Rocheport 134

Coluillbia cl.373 Fayette 457 Glasgow sta.164 Brunswick

Linden mis. 76 GO Marysville 36 mis~i()n 108 57 Platt!>burg 350 55

7

]500 83 Ma. 95 15 Hannibal District.

Keytesville 360 HUJltsville 450 Paris 424

9 Hannibal 22 slation ]60 69 Palmyra 99

2457 323 Hyde:sburg 204 Monlicello bOt

Richmond District. Alexandria 159 Carrolton 319 4 Memphis Richmond ~1A6 76 mbsion 235

14 36 b9 22 5

Liberty ~i8 4Fl Edina 241 It Gallatin 240 3 Blonm'gton 237 14 Cravfns'l\e 368 9. Shelbyvillt: 316 17 Trenton mis. 400 - -l\;lilan mis. 184 2-~02 l~S

R F. C A PITt:T. ATTON. Whites. Col. L. P.

St. Charles District 2339 572 JO Coll1mbia 2457 S2:l 17 Hi£-hmond 2695 147 26 We!'ton J500 A:J ]5 Hannibal 2'202 ]78 19

Total this year 11.1!13 J:.m:J fl7 Last yeal' 9,555 ]204 97

In(,fease J(j38 !J9 Derrf'a~e 10 Total io('rea:o:e 1727

Missotl.ri COT/ference, 1849. 217

Quest. 14. What amounts are necessary for the superannuated preachers, and the widows and orphans of preachers, and to make up the deficienci.es, ~c. ~c.?

$-1373 76. Quest. 15. What has been collected on

the foregoing accoun~8 anclhow has it been applied? Uolllections from circuits and

stations Dividend from Nashville C.

Advocate

Applied as follows: BldholJ's appropriation Widow Fielding

" Bewley Tyson Dines W. E. Dockey E. Roberson Wm. Ketron Geo. Smith Contingencies

$239 41

100 00

$339 41

$175 00 19 94 35 26 44 96 19 83 21 80 14 47

6 15 2 00

$339 41 Quest. 16. What has been contirbuted

for the support of missions, what jor Tracts, Sunday :$chool books, and the American Bibl~ Society, ~c. ? For Missions $1050 50 Sunday School 418 87

Quest. 17. Where are the Preachers this ye':Lr?

ST. CHARLES DISTRICT.

William W. Redman, P. E. St. Charles circuit, Jas. M. Green, ,\V m.

A. Mavhew. Warrent<i'n, Daniel T. Sherman. Danville, Daniel Penny. Portland, Benjamin S. Ashby. Fultun, Cqrnelius J. Vandeventer. Mexico mis, Jacob .1\fcDaniel. New London mis, 'Vm. D. Coxe. Louisiana, Isaac Ebbert., Sam'l \V. Cope. Auburn, Jesse Sutton.

COLUMBIA DISTRICT.

.!lad. Monroe, P. E. Columbia circuit, Patrick M. PincklJ.rcl. Fayette, Berry H. Spencer, William '1\

Ellington. Glasguw sta., William Ilolmes.

Brunswick sta., Richard P. Holt. Keylesville, Jeremiah F. Riggs. H unts\'ille, to be 811 pplied. P,uis, Arthur E. Sears.

RICH;.\10ND DISTRICT.

Horace Brown, P. E. Carrohon, Robert R. Dunlap. Hichmond, Jos. Det'lin, Ro. C Halton. Liberty, ZaCCne1.lS N Roberts. Galatin mis, James Barker. Cra\'ensville & Athens, James B. Callo-

way, W m. H. Saxton. Trenton mis, Willis E. Dockrey. Milan Mis, Little W. Moore. Putnamnlie mis, William M. Sutton. Linneus mis., Richard Minshall.

WESTON DISTRICT.

William Patton, P. E. Platte City, John ltv. Ellis. Weston cir, !Vlid.lleton R. Jones. 'Vest on, .1\lzlton Jamieson. St. JOBeph, sIn., William ,,1[. Rush. Savannah, John .fl. 7'ute. Orc!Jon, Jrm. Ketron, f1l1p'I'Y. Linden mis, John P. Keen. Mal'y\'ille, William Shaw. Mays\·.lIe, Isaac Naylor. Plattsburg, Edwin Roberson.

HANNIBAL DISTRIC'1'.

Jacob Lanius, P. E. Hannibal sta., William G. CopIes. Palmyra " Joscph Cotton. Hydesburg, George Smith. Mont irello, Enoch .1\1. .1\Jarvin, Wiliiam

M. Wood. Alexandria, Henry 1\1. Turner. Memphis lOis., .fllexander Spencer. Edinu, Denry W. Peery. Bloomington, Walter Toole. Shelby,,·illp., James A. Light. Richard Bond, agrnl A Iller. Bible Society~

Robert II. Jordan, left without appoint­mrnt, on account of extreme family nr· flict ion.

George C. Light permitted to trarel for the benefit of his health.

Quest. ]8. Jthere and uhen shall our next Conference be held?

At CampLon, Lewis county, Mo.

218 SI. Louis Conference, 1849.

3.-ST. LOUIS CONFERENCE, October, 1849.

Quest. 1. Who are admitted on trial? J. D. Reno, David S. Holman, Joseph

Chase, John McCluney. Quest. 2. Who remain on trial? John W. l1awkins, Hobert k Foster,

Mark Shumate, Cullen Penny, Thomas C. James, Edward Allen.

Quest. 3. JYho are admitted into full connexion?

Geo. W. Bushy, Burwell D. Sims, James T. Davenport, Charles Bolles, Jo­seph Bond, John Burchard, John B. H. Wooldridge.

Quest. 4. Who are "the Deacons? ,V m. n. Schroeder, Pettis O. Clayton,

Elisha E. Headlee, James M. Pwctor, Richard Vernon, Francis A. Morris, Geo. 'V. Bushy,'if Burwell D. Sims,'if James S. Davenport,'if Charles Bolles,* John Burchard,'if John B. H. Wooldridge.'if

Qllest. 5. Who have been elected and or-dained Elders?

.Tames R. Burke. Quesl. 6. Who hat'e located this year? Newton G. Berryman, John H. Head-

lee, Isaac N. While. Quest. 7. Who are the supernumeraries? Silas \Villiams. Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated

preachers? Elijah Perkins, Jonathan Stamper. Quest. 9. Who have been expelled this

year 1 Perry B. l\'larple. Qllest. 10. Who have withdraum this

?lear 1 None. Quest. 11. Were all the preachers' cha-

racters examined? 'fhis was strictly auenderl to. Quest. 12. Wh~ have died this year? None. Qllest. 13. What numbers are in so­

titlY 1 St. Louis Dist7'ict.

Whites. Col. St, Louis, 4th street 229

Centenary 285 Mound . flO Wesley chao 50 Asbury "130

• Ordained this year.

Whites. Col. African ch. 75 St. Louis cir. 19; 1 Hillsboro 232 7 Union IH3 Herman 126

1522 83

Cape Girardeau Dist. Whites. Col.

Cape Girar-deauand St. Genevieve 390 55

ChaIl'ston ct. 217 33 New Madrid

& Pleasant ~tation

Bloomfield 59 15

Whites. Col. Tremunt &

Little O~age 293 7 Greenfie!d 149 M t. Vernon 255 7 FC'fsythe mis. 94 N{'o~ho 352 18 Carthage mi. 67

246~ 104 cit cuit 371 2 Lexington District.

Cr'k'd creek 426 Fred'ktown 2b9 Little Prairie 68 Greensville 211 Benlon 223

23 Lex'gton sla. 185 201 36 Lex'glon cir. HiO

Columtus cr 462 31 5 Independence

19 station 197 60 Independence

2234 188 circuit 221 7 Harrisonville 327 10 Potosi District.

Potosi cir. 3(,0 10 Warl'aw 3A2 25 Georgetown 212 20 Deep Wa:er 253 3

7 Arrow Rock 298 36

Steelville 133 Jaques Prai-

rie 262 Black River 293 Hartdlle 265 Houston mis. 248 Thomasville

1

Dover 168 64

2865457 Boonville District.

mission Richwooll Centreville

136 138 188

Boonv'e sla. ]96 44 Boon've cir. 402 11 Jeffelson City

1 ~Iation 65,· 30

1963 19

SprinJ, field Dislrict. Sp'gfield sta. 69 11 Sp'gfield cir. 530 14 Boli var cir. 437 3:.l Oceola 216 15

Jefferson cir. 3fiO 8 Linn 370 12 Buffalo mis. 238 Erie 265 18 Ven-ailles 330 38

22'26 161 RECAPITULATION.

St. Louis District Cape Girardeau cr Potosi II

Springfield CI

Lexington cc Boollville cr Local Preachers

Total this year Total last year

While!::. 1522 2i34 1963 2462 2865 2226

145

13417 12893

Colored. 83

Hl8 19

104 457 Hi1

1012 913

Increase 524 99 Quest. 14. What amounts arc necessary

fur the superannuated preachers, and to mak~ up the dPjiciencies, 4-c., '-5-c. ?

$2338 73. Quest. 15. 'Yllat has heen cOl/eettd on

the foregoing accounts, and how h08 it bten applied 1 $386 95 And fI pproprialed as follows: 'fo Bishopfit, Jla we's children, 'Vidow Glallville,

175 00 35 75 85 70

St. Louis Confel'ence, 1849. 219

Widow Green, StatlOnery and postage,

76 45 2 20

$375 10 Quest. 16. What lIas been contributed

for the support of missions, what for Sun­day school books, tracts, and the .!lmerican Bible Society ? For Missions, $1055 00

" Bible Society, 94 67 Ie SUflday School Books, 430 15 Quest. 17. Where are the preachers sta-

tioned this year?

ST. LOUIS DISTRICT.

James Mitchell, P. E; Fourth st. Church, Francis .11 •• Morris. Centenary, William fl. Le'wis. Mound, llalph Douglass. Asbury Chapel, Warren Wharton. Wesley " to be supplied. African Mission, .I1bram Milice. St. Louis cir., E. B. Headlee. Jaques Prairie & Herman, G. M. Effin­

ger; 1 to be supplied. Union, H. N. Watts.

CAPE GIRADEA U DISTRICT.

Jeptha M. Kelly, P. E. Perryville, Levi P. Rowland. Cape Girndeau & Jackson, George W.

Bushy. Charleston, William T. Cardwell. New Madrid &. Pt. Pleasant, James M.

Proctor. Benton, Caleb L. Spencer. Bloomfield & Butter mis., Ed. Allen j 1

to be supplied. Greenville, Joseph Chase. Crooked Creek, Cullin Penny. Frederickion, Christian Eakin. ArcaJia High School, J. C. Berryman. Little Prairie mis., to be supplied.

POTOSI PISTRICT.

George W. Love, P. E. Potosi, John K Lacey. Rich Woods, Ephraim Deg gee Black River, Joseph O. Woods. Steelville mis., John W. Hawkins. Thomasville mis., David S. Holman. Centreville, Charles BoJJes. Hillsborough. E. E. HeadJee. St. Genevieve, to be supplied.

A

SPRING FIELD DISTRICT. Benjamin R. Johnson, P. E. Springfield sta., to be supplied. Springfield & Forsythe mis., H. G. Joplin,

J. 'r. Davenport. Mt. Vernon, to be supplied. Hartsville, to be supplied. Houston, J. D. Read. Neosho, to be supplied. Carthage mis., Joseph Bond. Bolivar, R. A. Foster. South West Missouri High School, .fl.

H. Mathes. WARSAW DISTRICT.

William W. Jones, P. E. Warsa w cir., Wm. H. Schroeder. Georgetown, Jesse C. Derrick. Deep Water, Richard B. Vernon. 'Vest Point mis., Mark Shumate. Little Osage, to be supplied. Fremont, Burwell D. Sims. Buffalo, to be supplied. Oceola, P. O. Clayton.

LEXINGTON DISTRICT. John R. Bennett, P. E. Lexington sta., Alexander L. Hamilton. Lexington eir., John P. McCluney. Dover " Joseph Dines. Columbus, Daniel .11. Leeper, Daniel S.

Capell. Independence sla., N<-B. Peterson.

" eir., Jas. L. Porter. Arrow Rock, T. T. .I1shby, Thomas C.

James. Harrisonvi11e, Warren M. Pitts, Silas

Williams, sup. BOONVILLE DISTRICT.

Joseph Boyle, P. E. Boonville sta., John .11. Henning.

" cir., J. R. Burke. Jefferson City, Thomas H. Capers.

II cil'., J. B. H. Wooldridge. California, S. S. Colburn. Linn, John Monroe. Erie, to be supplied. Versailles, J. Burchard. John H. Linn transferred t~ Louisville

Conference. David W. Pollock, mis910nary to Cali­

fornia. Quest. 18. When .md where skall our

next Conference be Mid? At IndependeJlCe, Mo.

220 Louisville Conference, 1849.

4.-LOUISVILLE CONFERENCE, October 3-9, 1849.

Quest. 1. What preachers are admitted on trial?

Jas. A. Ivey, Jas. H. Owen, Ephraim M. Walker.-8.

Quest. 2. Who remain on trial? James. R. Dempsey, Morris Evans,

Samuel H. Hodges, Charles McKinney, Robert Y. Thomas, Abraham Quick.-6.

Quest. 3. Who are admitted into full con-1lexion?

William B. Bethel, Creighton Gould, Robert McCown, Aleri A. Morrison, Wm. H. Monison, Wm. Randolph, and Sam'l A. Johnson.-7.

Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons? Those, above, who have been admitted

into full connexion, except Aleri A. Mor­rison, who is an Elder.

Quest. 5. Who have been elected and or­dained Elders this year?

Samuel D. Akin, Mitchell Land, Aleri A. Morrison, and Joseph S. Scobee.-4.

Quest. 6. Who have located thi' year 1 Hiram T. Downard, Mitchell Land.-2. Quest. 7. Who are the supernumerary

preachers? None. Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated or

worn out preachers? Eli B. Crain, Peter Duncan, Richard

D. Neall, George W. Taylor, Zadoc B. Thaxton.-5.

Quest. 9. Who have been expelled from the connexion this year 1

None. Quest. 10. Who have withdrawn from

the connexion this year? None. Quest. 11. .9..re all the preachers blame­

less in life and conversation? Their names were called, and their cha­

racters severally examined and passed. Quest. 12. Who have died this year?

. WrLLIAM KNOWLES: who was born at Bolton, in Lancastershire, in England, June, 1803. He remembered his Creator in the day~ of his youth, and found a fulfilment of the promise, ThelJ that seek me early shall find me. He began preaching as a local preacher, in England, in the year 1820. In 1829 he came to America, and resided one year in New York. Thence he went to Ohio, for three years, and thence to Louisville, Ky.; and, after several years more, l1e removed to Indiana, and in the year 1837 joined the Indiana Annual Conference. For that and the following year he was appointed to Princeton, and for 1839 to New Albany, la. During this year his health failed, and returning to Kentucky he acted as a Bible distributor, according to bis str&flgth, until 1847, when having partiaBy regained his health, he took an effective appointment and was stationed at RusseUville. The improvement of his health, however, was not permanent, and at the close of the year he was superannuated. His mortal disease ~s pulmonary consumption, of which he died, in great peace, in Russellville, Ky. Febrllary 12, 1849.

WrLLIAM LASLEY, died in the town of Bowling-Green, Ky. July 1,1849. The son of a travelling preacher of many years standing, he was converted at the very early age of nine years. He was licensed to preach, and admitted on trial in the Kentucky Conference, in the year 1841; for which year he was sent to the Princeton circuit. To Salem circuit for t~e year 1842, Wayne circuit for 1843, Burksville 1844, Bowling-Green circuit 1845, FraDk.lm circuit 1846, Springfield 1847. In this la~t circuit, his health gave way; but not apprehendIng the exlent of the evil, be made no application at Conference for relief from tabor, and was appointed to the Princeton circuit for thP. year 1848, where his labors ended. He died of inflammation of the stomach and bowels, possessing his soul in patience, full of faith and the comfort of the Holy Ghost.

Gr.oRGE HANCOCK. Brother Hancock was born in the county of Franklin, Ky., but we are not inf~rmed as to the time when. He was admitted on trial in the Kentucky Conference in the fall <)1" 1842, and appointed to Owensburg circuit, for 1843 Lebanon circuit, 1844 Mt. Pleasant ~ircuit, 1845 Morgantown cireuit, 1846' Bowling-Green circuit, 1847 Middletown circuit. R«:re at the house of his faithful friend Dr. Stephen Reid, in Jefferson county, Ky. he fell asleep in Jesus, July 22, 1848.

Quest. 13. What numbers are in society? Louisville Distrkt.

Whites. 0<:>1. Louisville city:- . Fourth st. 360 00 Brook st. 368 149 Eighth st. 352 370

Whites. Col. Shelby st. 260 00 Asbury 28 00 Twelfth st. 95 00 Be\\\el, &c. 58 00

Whites. Col. Middletown 139 125 Jeffers'nt'wn 226 29 Louisville cir.

Mt. Wash­ingtoa

340 93

245

Whites. Col. Bardstown &N. Haven 144 100 Lebanon 292 96

2907 1037

Louisville C~nference, 1849. 221

HardinsOurK Distrid. Whites. Col.

HopkimviUe Distri,t, Whites. Col.

Hardinsb'rg 590 86 Hopkinsv'le 500 191 Big Spring 704 119 Elkton 575 00 Elizabeth- Russellville 144 122 town 303 57 Log"an 4lO 260

Hodgens- Franklin 5~O 45 ville 329 14 Greenville 399 90

Litchfield 262 14 Bowling-Hartford 342 56 Green cir. 272 14 Owensbo- Lafayette 292 38 rough 382 30 Cadiz 346 139

Hawesville 22l 32 Morgantown Flint Island 84 00 mise 189 10

3217 408 3647 909 Smitlrland. District. Bowling-Green Dist.

Smithland 90 59 Bowlin~-Salem 536 27 Green 100 125 Morgans- Barren 268 28 field 270 39 Glas~ow 366 45

Henderson 57 45 Greensburg 325 25 Henderson Campbells-cir. 451 53 ville 378 37

Rumsey 350 20 Columbia 545 28 Madison- Wayne 374 32 ville 579 82 Albany 476 38

Princeton 255 17 Burkesville 471 70 Empire Iron Scottsville 774 15 Works 198 20 Nutsville 218 13

2786 362 4295 456 RECAPITULATION.

Louisville District Hardinsburg District Smithland District Hopkinsville District Bowling-Green District

Local Preachers

Total this year Last year

Whites. 2907 3217 2786 3647 4295

Colored. 1037 408 ~62 909 456

16852 3172 181

17033 317~ 16969 3979

Increase 6{-])ecr~ase 807

Quest. 14. What amounts are necessary for the superannuated preachers, and the wirio-ws and orphans of preachers, and to make up the deficit:nCies of those who have not obtained their regular allowance on the circuits; and for the Bislwp' 'l

$3,711 25 Quest. 15. What has been cdlected on

the foregoing accounts, and ,low has it been applied 'I

The amount collected is six hundred and eleven dollars and twenty-five cents. And to this sum has been added, one hun­dred dollars from the Nashville Christian Advocate, and eighty.three dollars and twenty-five cents from the Preachers' Aid Society: making in all the sum of IiZVEN

HUNDRED AND NINETY-FOUR DOLLARS

AND FIFTY CENTS. And it has been ap­plied as follows:

1'0 the Bishops, two hundred and fifty dollat's; to sllperannuated preachers, one hundred and seventy· five dollars and ten cents; to widows and orphans, two hun­dred and seventy-one dollars and sixty cents; and to deficient preachers of the circuits, eighty-nine dollars and eighty cents.

Quest. 16. What has been contributed for the support of missions; what for Sunday School books; and u,hat to aid the American Bible Society and its auxil­iaries'l

There has been contributed for mis­sions during the year, the sum of three thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents j for Sunday School books the SlIm reported is four hundred and twenty-four dollars and thirty-five cents; and to aid the American Bible So­ciety, six hundred and fifty dollars; but this last sum falls short of what has been done, the reports not being complete.

Quest. 17. Where are the preachers sta­tioned this year 'l

LOUISVILLE DISTRICT.

Thomas Maddin, P. E. Edward Stevenson is Missionary Secreta­

ry and Assistant Book Agent. Louisville: Brook st., Charles B. Parsons.

" Third st., Edmund W. Sehon. II Fourth st_, John H. Linn. " Eighth st., James Young. " Shelby st., James J. Fertee. " Asbury & PeeDee, Joseph S.

Scobee. II TwelfLh st., Wm. Alexander. " The Bethel, Wm. Holman.

Middletown, John w: Cunningham. Jeffersontown, James S. Wools. Louisville cir., Geo. W. Merritt. Mount Washington, Samuel D . .B.kin. Bardstown & New Haven, Zachariah

.M. 'Paylor. Lebanon, James H. Bristow.

J. Randolph Finley is appointed to the Bardstown Female Institute.

HARDINSBURG DISTRICT.

Richard Tydings, P. E. Hardin~bur&, Nal.h. H. Lee, Jas. A. Ivey.

222 Holston Conference, 1849.

Big Spring, Robert G. Gardner, Ephraim M. Walker.

Elizabethtown, George W. Crumbaugh. HodgensvilIe, William Neikirk. Litchfield, Robert Y. Thomas. Hanford, John ,\V. Rhodes. Owensborough, James Kyle. Hawesville, William Randolph. Flint Island, William B. Bethel.

SMITHLAND DISTRICT. • fJ.lbert H. Redford, P. E. Smithland, .f1leri .11. Morrison. Salem, Anthony Cannon. Morganfield, Edward .9.. Martin. Henderson, George R. Browder. Henderson cir., James H. Owen. Rumsey, John W. KfJsey. Madisonville, .!laron Moore. Prince lon, James R. Dempsey. Empire Iron Works, .fJ.lexander .J\fcCown.

HOPKINSVILLE DISTRICT. Thomas Bottomley, P. E. Hopkinsville, Samuel A. Johnson. Hqpkinsville circuit, Thomas J ... Woore. Elkton, R'lbert Fisk. Logan, Joseph D. Barnett. Russelville, Learner B. Davidson. Franklin, Schuyler L. Murrell.

Greenville, .9.lanson C. De Witt. Bowling.Grcen, Charles McKinney. Lafayette, Robert McCown. Cadiz, William H. Morrison. Morgantown mis., to be suppli~d.

BOWLING·GREEN DISTRICT.

James King, P. E. Bowling.Green, .9.bram Long. BrownsvillE', Morris Evans. Glasgow, Benjamin R. Hester • Qreensburg, James Penn. Campbellsville, John B. Perry. Columbia, Hartwell T. Burge. Wayne, Abraham Quick. Albany, Joel Peak. 'l'ompkinsvil1e, Samuel H. Hodges. Scottsville, Timotny C. Frogge. Neetsville mis., Creighton Gould.

James N. Temple is transferred to the Memphis Conference.

John Bowden, John F. South, and John T. Crandall, are without appointments on account of ill hE'ahh.

Quest. 18. Where and when sholl our next Confel·r,nce be held?

At Greensburg. The time to be fixed at the meeting of the Bishops at the General Conference.

5.-HOLSTON CONFERENCE, October, 1849.

Quest. 1. Who are admitted on trial? Eikanah H. King, Newton C. Ed­

monson, Wiley F. Parker, John C. Hy­don, John M. Varnell, Wm. W. Har· graves, Ransom M. Moore, 'William J. Witcher, Riley A. Giddings-9.

Quest. 2. Who remain on trial" Ambrose G. Worley, William H.

Kelly, Hamilton Wi\son,]os. H. Peck-4,

Quest. 3. Who are admitted into full connexion?

10hn H. Bruner, John M. McTier, James T. Smith, Richard A. Clallghton, Geo. \V. Renfro, Edward E. Gillenwa­ter, William Jones-7.

Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons 'I James A. Ragan, William M. Kerr,

Larkin W. Crouch, William T. Dorrell, Jas. N. S. Huffaker, Randolph D. Well~, William H. Bates, Wiley W. Neal, L.

C. Walters, John H. Bruner,* John M. McTier,*' J. T. Smilh,* G. W. Renfro,!\' E. E. Gillenwater,*' W.lones.*-15.

Those marked thus *' were ordained this year.

Quest. 5. Who ha1'e been elected and ordained Elders this year?

George K. Snapp, Rufus M. Hickey, Canoll Long, Andrew C. Hunler, Rufus M. Whaley, Robert ,\V. Pickens, Crocket GoC!bey-7.

Quest. 6. WlIO have located this year? Wrn. Sturgess, J. W. Thompson, J.

S. Burnett, Andrew Gass, John Alley, ·Wm. D. Snapp-6.

Quest.7. Who are the supr3rnumerary preachers?

Creed Fulton-1. Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated

preachers? . 10hn Barmger, R. Gannaway, Thos.

Holston Conference, 1849. 223

Wilkerson, E. H. H utsen, James Dixon, S. D. Adams, D. Adams, Jesse Cunning­ham-So

Quest. 9. Who have withdrawn from the connexion this year?

None. Quesl. 10.Wlw have been expelledfrom

the connexion this year? Aaron Shell. Quest. 11. Were all the preachers' cha-

racters examtned this year? This was strictly attended to. Quest. 12. Who have died this year? None. Quest. 13. What numbers are in so­

ciety?

WytluroiUe District. Whites. Col. Whites. Col. Powell's Val-

Wytheville ley cir. 276 17 circuit 74] 191 Greenville

Newbern cir. 328 168 circuit Parisb'rg " 1029 39 Rheatown

906 38

Jeffers'n ville circuit 1003 55

Whites Col. Decatur cir. 500 17 Chattanooga ct.&.Hiwas-~a mission 302 20

Clevel'nd ct. 1042 49 Benton cir.

&. Oroa mi. 480 15 Madis'nville

ct. &. Tellico mission 8]2 42

4393 295 Asheville Dis/tict.

Asheville station 65 59

Whites. Col. Asheville ct. 7t'3 75 Burnsville" 82~ 27 Henderson-ville cir.

Catawha ct. F'ranklin " New Port" Sevierville

circuit W ayn'sville ct. &. Echota mi. (158 In-

678 67 394 83 537 91 6t7 59

482 19

dians) 875 23

5190 509 RECAPITULATION.

5869 762 6101 803

Wytheville District Abingdon " Rogersville " 5516 533 Knoxville " 4795 402 Cumberland " 2869 221 Athens " 4393 295 Asheville " 5190 509

34,733 3525 324 Local Preachers

cir. 648 162 Clinch mis. 685 29 Total this year 35,057 3525 Princeton ct. -- -- " last year 35,456 3817 &'Kru~ ~6~ mis. 651 24 Knoxville Dist1'ict.

Marion cir. 7!J9 103 Kn'xville sta. 180 Grayson" 673 14 Kn'xville ct. 674 43 Jefferson" 473 22 Marysville Hillsv'lle" 415 49 circuit Sandy mis. 102 Litle River

-- circuit 5R69 762 Dandri'ge ct.

Abingdon Distfict. N. Markp-t " Abingdon Clinton" station 147 224 Jacksbo-

Abingd'n ct. 828 125 rough and Lebanon" 660 47 Straitfork Blountsville mission circuit 1316 175 Knoxville &

Jonesb'rough Muddy cr'k station i5 47 colored mis.

651 76

600 48 7112 41 647 97 733 54

608 41

Jones'brough circuit 1178 87

Estillville ct. 931 52 Elizabethton

4795 402 Cumberland District.

ct. &. John-son mission 822 44

Gass River

Kingston ct. 417 73 Washington

circuit 613 58 Pikeville ct. 521 34

mission 144 2 J asrer " 426 15 Spencer mis. 146 Cumberland 6101 803

Rogersville District. Rogersville &

88 65 Greenville station

Kings Port circuit 8]5 136

Jonesville ct. 804 36 Rogersville circuit 708 140

Tazewell circuit 231 17

mission 181 6 Moulg'mery mission 415 35

Jamestown mis. 150

2869 221 Atlten.~ District.

Athenscir. 666 111 Philadelphia circuit 691 41

/I decrease this year 399 292

Quest. 14. JVhat amounts are neces­sary for the superannuated preachers, and the widows and orphans of preach­ers, and io make up the deficiencies of those who have not re('eived their regular allowance on the circuits?

Not answered in the MS. Quest. 15. What has been collected on

the foregoing accounts, and how has it been applied?

Not answered in the MS. Quest. 16. What has been contributed

for the support of missions, and what for publication of Bibles, and for Sunday School books?

For Missions For Bibles For S. S. Books

$1,590 25 26 00

473 90 Quest. 17. Where are the preachers

stationed this year?·

WYTHEVILLE DISTRICT. W. B. Winton, P. E. Wytheville circuit, Carroll Long, E. H.

King. Newbern, E. W. Chanceaulm. Parrisbllrg,.fl. Williams. Princeton mission, L. C. Walters. New River "HiraM Tartar.

224 Holston Conference, 1849.

Hillsville, William H. Kelly. Gra.yson, .11. M. Goodykoontze. Jefferson, R. A. Claughlon.

ABINGDON DISTRICT.

7'homas K Catlett, P. E. Abingdon, W m. W. G. E. Cunning-

ham. Abingdon circui~, G. W. Alexander. Lebanon, J. S. Edwards. Jeffersonville, J . ./U. Crismon. Johnson & Watanga Mis. to be supplied. Sanrly Mission, to be supplied. Estillville, R. W. Pickens. Gass River Mission, William Jones. Blountsville, William .J\tlilburn, George

Ekin. Marion, John H. Bruner.

Charles Collins, President, E. E. Wi­ley, Professor in Emory & Henry College.

GREENVILLE DISTRICT.

C. D. Smith, P. E. Greenville Circuit, Miles Fay. Jonesboro', W. Robeson. Jonesboro' Circuit, C. Campbell, R. Moore. Elizabethton, William T. Dorrell. Rheatonn, D. B. Carter, Geo. K. Snapp. New Market, R. M. Whaley. New Port, A. F. Cox. Holston ColIe~e, P. Anderson, President. Strawberry Plains High School, C. Ful-

t~n, President.

ROGERSVILLE DISTRICT.

J. Haskew, P. E. Rogslsville, W. Ingle. King"'port, W. W. Neal. Jonesville, J. Y. Crawford. Powell's Valley, W. R. Long. Tazewell, J. M Kelly. Sneeclsville, 1. T. Smith. Clinch Mission, J. C. Hydon.

KNOXVILLE DISTRICT. J. Atkin, P. E. Samuel Patton, Editor Meth. Epis. David R. Mc.!1n.alLy, Principal E. T. Fe·

male Inslitute. Knoxville, C. W. Charlton.

tt Circuit, R. W. Patty. Clinton, J. N. S. Huffaker.

Jacksboro Circuit & St. Fork Mission, J. R. Bellamy.

Maryville, T. R. Muncey. Lillie River, J. G. Swisher. Seviersville, N. C. Edmonson. Dandridge, R. M. Hickey Knoxville & Muddy Creek Colored Mis­

sion, J. Cumming.

CUMBERLAND DISTRICT.

R. M. Stevens, P. E. Kingston, W. H. Bates. Washington, C. Godby. Jasper, J. M. McTier. Pikeville, J. A. Ragan. Montgomery Mission, W. J. Witcher. Jamestown II to be supplied. Cumberland " J. M. Varnell. Spencer " to be supplied.

ATHENS DISTRICT.

D. Flemming, P. E. Athens, J. C. Pender~ass, J. Miller. Philadelphia, E. E. Gillenwater. Decatur, L. W. Crouch. Chattanooga, M. C. Robinson. Hiwassee Mission, R. D. Giddens. Cleveland, W. C. Daily, W. Parker. Benton, G. W. Renfro. Madisonville & Tellico Mission, to be

supplied.

ASHVILLE DISTRICT.

W. Hicks, P. E. A'Shville. W. .M. Kerr. Ashville Circuit, W. H. Roger~. Burnsville, H. Wilson. Hendersonville, F. M. Fanning. Catawba, U. Keener. Franklin, .11.. F. Shannon. Waynesville, A. G. Worley. Echota Mission, A. Hunter. Thomas Stringfield, Bible Agent. Wm. C. Graves, Sunnay School Agent.

E. F. Sevier, T. ~ullims, L. Wilson, J. H. Peck, without appointment, on ac­count of ill health.

S. B. Harwell permitted to rest.

Quest. 18. Where and 'When shall the next Confere:nce be held ~

At AbingdoD, Va.

Inaian Mission Oonference, 1849. 225

6.-INDIAN MISSION CONFERENCE, October 25, 1849.

Quest. 1. Who are aamittea on trial? James A. Cumming, Jack Burgess,

Enoch Johnson, Thomas Segro. Quest. 2. Who remain on trial? None. Quest. 3. Who are aamitted into jull

connexion? Jesse S. McAlister. Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons? John M. Garner, Nathan Scarritl, Da­

niel Asbury, Walker Carey, J. S. McAlis­ter.*

Quest. 5. Who have been elected and or-dained Elders this year?

B. H. Russell, Waller A. Duncan. Quest. 6. Who have located this year? None. Quest. 7. Who are the supernumeraries? None. Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated

preachers? None. Quest. 9. Who have withdrawn 'I None. Quest. 10. Who have been expelled 'I None. Quest. 11. Were the characters of all

the preachers examined? 'fhis was strictly attended to. Quest. 12. Who have died this year? None. Quest. 13. What numbers are in so­

ciety'l Kansas District.

Ind. Whites. Co1. Indian Manl Labor School 5 20 :-J Shawnee 102 Delaware 56 KickaJloo 32

Indians. Whites. Col. Creek Agency 130 5 1 North Fork & Little River 244 I) 17 Spring Hill & Hardridges 187 I 12 Craw10rd Seminary 4 3

1884 97 206

Choctaw District. Fort Coffee and New

Hope Seminaries 38 7 1 Doaksville 448 8 75 Moshnlatubbee 161 3 18 Kiamechee 287 4 22 Brushy 54 6 Chickasaw 12 13 42

1040 35 164

RECAPITULATION.

Kansas District Cherokee & Mus. Disl. Choctaw District

Whites Colored Local preachers

Total this year Total last year

Decrease

Indians. Whites. Col. 302 27 3

1884 97 206 1040 35 164

3226 159 373 159 373

39

3797 3851

54

Quests. 14 and 15 not applicable to a Mission Conference.

Quest. 16. What has been contributed for the support of missions, Bibles and Sun­day school books?

For missions $834 24 Quest. 17. Where are the preachers sta­

tioned this year?

KANSAS RIVER DISTRICT. Learner B. Stateler, P. E.

Wyandott 103 Potawattomie 4

30-2

1 1 5

27 Clterokes and Muskogee Distrid.

Indian Manual Labor Schoo], Tho8. John­son, Superintendent, and John 7', Peery.

Delaware} Learner B. State/er. Sha wnee James A. Cumming.

3 Wyandott, Benjamin H. Russell. Kickapoo, Nathan T. Shaler.

~~ Kansas l Thomas Johnson. Seneca and U. Cherokee 256 6 Saline 270 2 Tahlequah 215 29 Barren Fork 355 30 Lbwer Cherokee and

Webber's Falls 223 16

63 Potawattomie, Thomas Hurlburt. 36 Western Academy, Nathan Scarrill.

CHEROKEE DISTRICT. 11 Samuel G. Patterson, P. E.

• Ordained this year. Crawford Seminary, S. G. Patterson.

226 Tennessee Conference, 1849.

Seneca and Upper Cherokee, David B. Cumming and Walter Carey.

Saline, Walter A. Duncan. Tahlequah, John M. Garner, William

Mcintosh. Barren Fork, Thomas W. Mitchell. Lower Cherokee, Thomas Bertholf, John

Boston.

CREEK DISTRICT. Thomas Ruble, P. E. Creek Agency and Uchee, Walter D.

Collins. Vel'digris, l James Essex, Thos Segro. Spring Hill, l Jack Burgess. 'ralassee, JEnoch Johnson. North Fork, } Benj'n R. Baxter, one to

be supplied. Little River, Daniel Asbury. Canadian, John F. Boot. Asbury Man. Labor School, Thos. B. Ruble.

CHOCTA W DISTRICT.

Nathaniel M. Talbot, P. E. Fort Coffee and New Hope Seminalies,

Wilson L. McAlister, one to be supplied. Doaksville, Jolm H. Carr. Choctaw Academy, John S. Noble. Moshulatubbee, E. B. Duncan, John Page. Kiamechee, one to be supplied, Isaac

Chuckrnubbee. Brushy, to be supplied. Chickasaw, Ezekiel Cov,ck. Chickasaw Academy, Wesley Browning. Porteau and Porteau School, Dixon W.

Lewis.

Jesse S. McAlister transferred to Ar· kansas Conference.

Quest. 18. Where and when 8haU our next Conference be held 'I

At Choctaw Agency, near Fort Coffee.

7.-TENNESSEE CONFERENCE, October 24-31, 1849.

Quest. 1. What preachers are admittea on trial 'I

John N. Allen, Abraham Coke, Wil­liam G. Dorris, John A. Ellis, Alexander Hinkle, Welborn Mooney, Andrew A. Padgett, Jarnfls H. Richey, Milton W. Russell, Allen Trible, William P. War· ren-I1.

Quest.2. Who 7'emain on trial 'I Milton P. Brown, Andflrson G, Cope.

land, Robert N. Drake, Francis H. Hick. man, Charles S. Knott, Abraham F. Lawrence, John C. Putman, David W. Thompson, William R. Warren, Francis M. Williams, Thomas H. Woodward, Robert A. Young, Il'vin Jones-13.

Quest. 3. Who are admitted into full connexion 'I

James W. Cooley, Thomas P. Critten­den, George W. Lentz,Thos. J. Neely, Robert G, Rawley, John G. Ray, Berry M. Stephens, Elam A. Stevenson James H. Warfield-9. '

Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons '1

A, Young, who has travelled but one year.

Quest. 5, Who have been elected' and ordained Elders this I" ear 'I

James 1'. Bartee, Andrew Conley, Spencer C. Dickson, Joseph S. Malone, Thos. B. Marks, Nathaniel W. Overall, and Arthur W. Smith-7.

Quest 6. Who have located thi,s year? Willis G. Davis, John L. HIll; Wm.

P. Kendrick, John H. Mann, David H. Merryman, Asbury D. Overall, Obadiah E. Ragland, Harbert H. Sulli\'an, John Vestal, William H. Wilkes, and William W. Beard-ll.

Quest. 7. Who are the supernumerarieS? William H. Adams, Elbert J. Allen,

James W. Allen, Jesse J. Ellis, James Gaines, Golman Green, John B. Hamil· ton, Robert G. Irvin, William Jared, John Kelly, Cornelius McGuire, Samuel W. Moreland, Abrah'm Overall, Sion Record, George W. Sneed, Henry P. Turner, Joel Whitten, Justinian Williams-lS.

Quel!lt. 8. Who are the superannuated . Those above, ~ho have been admitted or worn out preachers 'I . mto full connexlon j and William P.' Charles G. Foster Fielding H. Hams, Hickman, William H. Hughes, John Robert C. Jones St~nford Lassiler, John Mat.hews, and Thomas Wainright, who Page, Gilbert' D. Taylor, John D. have travelled three years; and Robert Winn-7.

Tennessee Conference, 1849. 227

Quest. 9. lJ'ho have been expelled from Quest. 11. Are all the :preachers blame-the conne.riO'It tltis year? less in life and conversatlon?

None. 'fheir names were called, and their Quest. 10. Who have withdrawnfrom, characters examined and passed, one by

the connexion this year'/ one. None. Quest. 12. Who ha,s died this year 1

MOSES M. EARHART. He was born in the year 1814; was converted and joined the church in 1832; was licensed to preach in 1835; and was admitted on trial in the Tennessee Annual Conference in 1836. At the close of the year he was discontinued, and remained a local preacher till 1845, when he again joined the Conference, and. was appointed to the Lebanon African Mission. His next appointment was to a similar work in Sumner county j and well did he labor, aod with great success, in these fields for sever;\l years. At the Conference of last year he was appointed to the Fountain Head circuit, and four months afterwards, on the 24th of February last, in the midst of zealous labors, he was taken to his heavenly rest.

Our brother was but feeble of body, and may, perhaps, have been, (as some have thought he was,) a martyr to his \vorkj bllt his devotion to duty was that of "the spirit of faith," and his end was eminently bappy.

Quefc:t.13. What numbers are in Society? Nashville District.. Whites. Col.

Whites. Col. Winchester 377 196 McKendr~e Bedford 768 194

church 371 Salem 744 62 Andrew ch. 275 Spruce st. 168 45 Nashville Af. Miss. 525

Nashville ct. 655 120 Harpeth 760 95 Wesley 595 Spring Hill 788 110 Colombia 179 35 Williamson Af. Mission 257

4729 739 MU1freesboro' Di$irict. Murfreesbo. 145 130 Cainsville 313 24 Stone's Riv. 387 215 Middleton 702 91 Shelbyville 100 66 Lincoln 756 73 Fayetteville 53 43 Rock Creek 881 114

3791 1187 3337 756 Lebanon District. Huntsville District.

Lebanon 125 White's cr'k 378

85 Huntsville 201 143

Sumner 601 Galatin 156 Lebanon ct. 543 Union 406 Mill Creek 849 White's Cr'k Af. Mission

Lebanon At: Mission

37 183

516

654

3058 1475 CartluLge District.

Fount.HC'ad 774 92 Goose Cr'k 447 Lafayette 534 10

Madison 303 Limestone 594 151 Athens 155 83 Flint River 371 54 Loweville 114 Marshall 722 34 Bellefonte 690 Limestone Af. Mission

Madison Ai. Mission

208

232

3150 905 Tuscumbia District.

Whites. Col. Richland 1080 10 Shoal 951 118 Cypress 761 67 Florence 90 Savannah 763 Wayne 293 Duck River 314 Cypress Af. Mission

Richland Af. Mission

123 62 4

100

190

43i1 739 Dover District.

Mt. Pleasant 544 61 Swan Creek 645 70 Buffalo Mis. 139 Centerville 257 Waverly 385 Hopewell 174

71 47 18

Whites. Col. Dover 498 51 Ml. Pleasant Af.Mission 190

2642 508 Clarkesville District.

Clarkesville 193 Clark'ille ct. 203 Montgomery 466 10 Cumberland Iron Works 52 61

Dickson 639 24 Ashury 651 Red River 'WI 40 Asbury Af.

Mission Montgomery Af.Mission

407

162

2905 704 RECAPITULATION.

Nashville District Lebanon District Carthage District McMinnville District Murfreesbor(\ugh District Huntsville DIstrict Tuscumbia District Pulaski District Dover District Clarkesville District

Local Preachers

Whites. 3794 3058 5004 4729 3337 3150 1932 437L 2642 2905

34922 390

Colored. 1187 1475

406 739 756 905 505 739 508 704

7924

Carthage 295 54 Smith's F'k 1243 90 Wartrace 443 25 CumberI'd 1058 110 Obey'sRiver21O 25

Tuscumbia 88 111 Chickasaw 218 Center 190 8

17 Total this year Rus. Valley 200 22 Total last year

35312 34947

7924 7594 Franklin 443

Trinity 407 Somerville 315 Decatur 71 Chickasaw

50 23 21

Increase this year 365 330

5004 406 McMi.nnville District. Livingston 467 7 Sparta 522 62 Short M't'n 6'13 44 Hickory C'k 961 162 While Plains

Af. Mission Franklin Af.

Misbion 154

Quest. 14. What amounts are necessary for the .'lllperannuated preachers, and the

99 widows and orphans 0/ preachers, and to make up the deficienctes of tlwse who have not obtained their regular allowance on the cir' :uits, and for the support of the Bishops?

EIGHT THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED 1932 505

P'lI1aski District. Mission 247 12 Pulaski 119 65 AND SIXTY DOLLARS.

a

228 T",neuee Conference, 1849.

Quest. 15. What has been collected on the foregoing accounts i and hCYID has it been applied'?

The whole amount paid to the Stew­ards of the Conference is NINE HUNDRED

AND TWENTY EIGHT DOLLARS AND FIVE

CENTS j and this has been applied as fol­lows: To the Bishops To superannuated preachers To widows and Qrphans of

preachers To make up deficiencies to

$360 00 135 00

90 00

preachers 343 05 Quest. 16. What has been contributed

for the support of missions; what jor Sunday school books, and what to aid the American Bible Society and its auxiliaries'?

For missions the sum of SIX THOUSAND

THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINE DOL­

LARS AND FIVE CENTS. For Sunday school books, SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIVE

DOLLARS. And for the American Bible Society ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED

AND FIFTY-FOUIt DOLLARS.

Quest. 17. Where a;re the Preachers stationed this year?

NASHVILLE DISTRICT. .!lmbrose F. Driskill, P. E. Nashville:

McKendree church, Lewis C. Bryan. Andrew church, Garrett W . .l\1artin. Spruce St. church, Joseph S. Malone. African church, Thomas B . .l\larks.

Nashville circuit, John S. Williams. Franklin, .I1dam S. Rigg~. Harpeth, Carroll C. Mayhew, George W.

Sneed, Supernumerary. Wesley, Charles B. Farris. Spring Hill, Martin Clark, (one to be sup­

plied,) Robert G. Irvine, Sup'y. Columbia, Robert A. Young, John B.

Hamilton, Sup'y. Ethelbert H. Hatcher is Agent of the

American Bible Society. John B. ':McFerrin and Moses M. Hen­

kleare the Editors of the Nashville Chris­tian Advocate, by appointment of the General Conference.

Jared O. Church is appointed to the Female Seminary at Columbia, Tenn.

LEBANON DISTRICT. .!llezander L. P. Green, P. E. Lebanon, William Burr, Jonn Kelly, Sup'y;

Lebano8 circuit, Thomas N. Lankford, William Randle. ..

Union, Joseph Willis, Jesse J. Ellis, Sup'y. Sumner, Burkett F. Ferrill. White's Creek, .I1lpheus Mizell. Mill Creek, B. R. Gant, Milton P. Brown. Elysian Grove, William R. Warren. Ridge Mission, (to be supplied.) White's Creek and Sumner African Mis­

sion, Elz'sha Carr.

CARTHAGE DISTRICT.

John F. Hughes, P. E. Gallatin, Fountain E. Pitts. Fountain Head, Thomas Wainwright. Goose Creek, James .11. Walkup. Lafayette, Francis M. Williams. Carthage, William H. Hughes. Smith's Fork, David R. Hooker, Jlbs'm

H. Reams, J. Whitten, Sup'y. Wartrace, Matthew P. Parham, Samuel

W. Moreland, Sup'y. Cumberland, John .11. Jones, (one to be

supplied.) Obey's River Mission, T. H. Woodward.

McMINNVILLE DISTRICT.

William C. Johnson, P. E. Livingston, George W. Lentz . Sparta, William P. Hickman, William

Jared, Sup'y. Short Mountain, Elam A. Stevenson. Hickory Creek, Joseph G. Myers, James

H. Richey. Winchester, Thomas J. Neely. Bedford, Levi R. Dennis, .I1braham OVerall,

Supernumerary. Manchester, Berry M. Stevens, Cornelius

.l\1cGuire, Supernumerary. Salem, George W. Winn, Anderson G.

Copeland. White Plains Mis. David "V. Thompson.

MURFREESBORO' DISTRICT.

Thomas W. Randle, P. E. Murfreesborougb, Robert C. Hatton. Stone's River, William 1? J. Husbands,

Elbert J . .I1llen, Supernumerary. Middleton, John McCurdy, Abrah'm Coke. Shelbyville, Ferdinand S. Petway. Lincoln, James R. McClure, Allen Trible. Fayetteville, .I1rthur W. Smith, Golman

Green, Supernumerary. Rock Creek, William G. Hensley, John

A. Ellis.

Virginia Conference, 1849. 229

HUNTSVILLE DISTRICT.

Finch P. Scruggs, P. E. Hunt:;ville, Edward C. Slater. Madison, Nathaniel W. Overall, Henry P.

Turner, Supernumerary. Limestone, Solomon S. Yarbrough, Robert

G. Rawley. Athens, Samuel S. Moody, Jas. W . .9.llen,

Supernumerary. Flint River, William P. Nichols. Loweville, Joseph E. White. Marshall, William J. Cooley, Milton W.

Russell. Bellefonte, John B. Stevenson, William P.

Warren. Limestone African Mission, William H.

Johnson. Madison African Mission, Jos. Turrentine.

Benjamin H. Hubbard and Smith W. Moore are appointed to the Female Insti­tute at Athens.

TUSCUMBIA DISTRICT.

William D. F. Sawrie, P. E. Tuscumbia, Simon P. Whitten. Chickasaw, Albert G. Kelly, Justinian

Williarn.3, Sup'y. Center, John C. Putman. Russell's Valley, Abraham F. Lawrence. Franklin, Mark W. Gray, William G.

Dorris, James Gaines, Sup'y. Trinity, Allison Akin. Somerville. Irvin Jones. Decatur, John Matthews. Franklin African Mission, John G. Ray.

Edward Wadsworth, D. D. is appointed to Lagrange College.

Jos. B. West is Agent for the College.

PULASKI DISTRICT.

John Sheri-ill, P. E. Pulaski, .9.aron J. Gilmore.

Richland, Lloyd Richardton, (one to be supplied.)

Shoal, Dawson Phelps, (one to be supplied.) Cypress, Jolm McKelvey, Alex. Hinkle. Florence, James G. Acton. Savannah, Dan'l H. Jones, John N. Allen. Wayne, James H. Warfield. Duck River, William Doss, Sion Record,

Supernu merary. Cypress African Mission, Andreto J. B.

Foster. DOVER DISTRICT.

James R. Plummer, P. E. Mount Pleasant, Wm. B. Walker, Thos.

P. Crittenden. Swan Creek, James W. Cooley. Pleasant Grove, Spencer C. Dickson. Centreville, James T. BaJ·tee. Waverly, Drury Womack. Hopewell, John W. Tarrant. Dover, Andrew Conley, Robert N. Drake. Buffalo Mission, Francis M. Hickman.

CLARKESVILLE DISTRICT. John W. Hanner, P. E. Clarkesville, Samuel D. Baldwin. Clarkesville circuit, Milton Ramey. Montgomery, George W. Dye. Cumberland Jron Works, Chas. S. Knott. Dickson, Russell Eskew, ~I\ nd. A. Padgett. Asbury, Jordan Moore, Welborn Mooney. Red River, Lewis Adams, Wm. H. Adams,

Supernumerary. Montgomery Af. Mission, (to be supplied.)

Alexander R. Erwin is appointed to the Female Academy at Clarkesville.

Joseph J. Hill is transferred to the Ken. tucky Conference.

Quest. 18. Where and when shall our next Conference be held?

At Athens, Alabama. The time to be fixed by the Bishops at their meeting in May next.

8.-VIRGINIA CONFERENCE, November 7, 1849.

Quest.!' What preachers are admitted John L. Clark, John <3. Granbery, Henry on trial? P. Nelms, and Benjamin C. Spiller-8.

Jas. A. Duncan, John G. Rowe, Jas. R. Waggoner, Joseph D. Bond, Lemuel S. Reid, Reuben Sewall, Thomas S. D. Covington~7.

Quest. 2. Who remain on tri~ ? Josephus Anderson, Milton L. Bishop,

William C. Blount, Thomas Y. Cash,

Quest. 3. Who are admitted intofull connexion ?

George W. Carter, John B. Dey, Alex. L. Hamilton, Charles W. Petherbridge, Thomas A. Pierce, George W. Trimyer, and Samuel Walsh-So

230 Virginia Conference, 1849.

Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons? Those admitted into full connexion,

and Peter F. August, Thomns J. Baylon, Jno. D. Blackwell, Jno. A. Doll, Esmond A. Gibbs, Richard Stevens, William H. Wheelright, and Davis P. Wills.

Quest. 5. Who have been elected and ordained Elders?

Edward C. Murrill,* Jas. F. Brannin, Archibald Clarke, Wm. G. Cross, and Francis J. Boggs.

Quest. 6. Who have located this year '] None.

Quest. 7. Who are the supernumera­ries ']

George W. S. Harper, Lewis Skid­more, Vernon Eskridge, David Wood,

"" Was not ordained.

George A. Bain, George W. Charlton, B. Devany, M. M. Dance, Elders, and Ira J. Crenshaw, a Deacon.

Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated preachers '/

Ballard E. Gibson and John W. Wil­liams.

Quest. 9. Who have been expelled this year?

None.

Quest. 10. Who have withdrawn from the connexion this year?

Alban P. Hook, Samuel Phillips. Quest. 11. Are all the preachers blame­

less in life and conversation ?

Their characters were examined and passed, one by one.

Quest. 12. Who have died this year?

ABRAM PENN was born in Patrick county, Virginia, on the 16th of March, 1803. Endowed by nature wilh an amiable disposition, suavity of manners, and a captivating address, seldom met with, even in the walks of virtuous life, the tendenry of his mind was towards" whatso­ever things were excellent, virtuous and of good report." These were improved by early training, and matured in manly piety. After prosecuting a cour:,e of study at the University of North Carolina, he returned to Virginia, and in February, 1824, was married. Having adopted the medical profession, he went to Philadelphia to finish his course, in the fall of the year; and in December received the distressing intelligence of the death of his wife. This painful bereavement changed all his purposes and plans with respect to "the life that now is." He immediately reLUrned to his home, paused in his professional career, ami gave him­self to the contemplation of, and prefaration for, "the life that is to come." He was soon deeply impressed with the necessity 0 being" born again," and sought IC a new heart," with weeping and fasting and prayer. At a camp.meeting in Henry connty, Virginia, in 1826, he found that which he sought; and thenceforth "walked with God in newness of life." Being led by the Spidt of Christ, he commenced preparation for the worl{ whereunto God had called him. He travelled awhile u!lder a Presiding Elder, and at the Conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina, February, 1828, was received into the travelling 1!linistry, and sent to Caswell circuit. In 1829, he was stationed in Halifax, and in 1830, in Ralei~h. In 1831, Richmond, Shockoe Hill; 11:132, Richmond, Trinity; ]833, Rapid Ann Circuit; 1834, Petersburgj 1835-6, Salisbury'Districtj 1837-8-9, Lynchburg District; 1840-4, Petersburg District. He \\'8~ then placed on the Richmond District, and continued on it until the Conference of ]847, when the declining state of his health compelled him to desist from the regular work of the ministry.

He also served the Church in her general councils. He wa~ a member of the General Conference of lR36. He was a member of the General Convention, convened in Louisville, Kentucky, 1845, for the purpoc;e of organizing the Methodist E. Church, Soulh j and of its first General Conference, held in Petersburg, Virginia, 1846. .

In 1836, Dr. Penn re·entered the holy estate of matrimony with Miss Mary E Thomas, of Louisburg, North Carolina-a fit companion for one who counted not his life dear unto himself, so he might win souls to Christ, and finish his course with joy. She was truly an help-meet to him; and she sorrows most of all that his work was so soon finished, and that he preceded her to "the great recompense of reward."

In September, 1841~ Dr. Penn suiferC'd a severe attack of bilious fever in Louisburg, North Carolina. Soon ~fler h.is convalescence, in Petersburg, Virginia, he had a slight h~morrhag~ of the lu~gs. It IS beheved these brought on the disease, angina pectoris, of wblch he ulu­mately dIed.

In all th~ relatio~s .of li~e, and especially in the duties of Ihe sac.red office, Dr. ~enn ,,:as true and falthfulj glvmg hImself" wholly to God and his work" wlth 11 zeal that difficulties could not quench, nnd a fervor of soul that death only could abate. As in life 80 in deatb he glorified God. For several years, such was his physical disease, he "died dailYj" and held himself in daily readiness to "depart and be with Christ." Re~jgned to the will of God, reo lying upon the atoning mE-rits of Christ, and in full hope of eternal life he welcomed the mes'Sengvr that summoned him ~ aeuend and w~ship beilre t.be ~rone.

Virginia Conference, 1849. 231

JOSEPH PINNELL was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, on the 10th of April, 1767. He made a profession of religion in 1790. He entert'd the itinerant ministrv in 1795, and tra­velled successively Contentney, Tar River, Portsmouth, Haw River, BEmie,.Cumberland, Camden and Caswell circuits. His next appointment was Wilmington. He spent <6ome time on Orange circuit, as supernumerary. In 1805, he, for several months, supplied the place of the Rev. Stith Mead, on the Richmond District. In 1806-7, spent nine months on the same District. From tbis time until the Conference of 1810, he was Presiding Elder, first on the James River, then on the Meherrin District. In 1810 he lo('ated. He subsequently travelled two years under the appointment of Presiding Elders, William Wright and J. U. Fry. On the 18th of November, 18L9, he married Harriet, daugh1er of Matthew and Esther Raghill.

In 1840, Mr. Pinnell was re-admiued to 1he Virginia Conference, and placed on the super­annuated list. He continued in this relation until death :severed him Ji-om all eartbly con­nexions.

Mr. Pinnell was one of the earliest American Methodist ministers-in many places a pio­neer of the Gospel. His travels extended over the territory now filled by the Virginia, North Carolina and Baltimore Conferences. He fulfilled his ministry at a time when it was truly a life of toil and self·sacrifice. Nor was he inactive ill his local relation to the Church. He was here "instant in season and out of season," striving always, by all means to save souls. His life of uniform piety and strict integrity gained the confidence of those among wbom he lived, and they took knowledge of him that he walked with God. A life thus spent in the service of God was crowned with a joyful death. A short time before his death he was a1'ked if his prospects for the future were clear. He replied, "What to choose J wot notj for I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better." In this frame of mind he continued until he met the last enemy of mortality, and triumphed over death through the merits of "Him who died for us, and rose again for our justification." After a life of devotion to God, and in a good old age, he fell asleep in Jesus, on Sunday, the 18th of January, 1849, in the eighty-seeond year of his age, at his residence in Allegbany county, Virginia.

JOHN C. BALLEW was born in Borke county, North Carolina. He embraced religion and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1800. In 1803 he was admitted on trial in the Virginia Conference. He commenced his itinerant' career under great discouragements, and with many fears. But he was led in a way he knew notj and though he went forth weeping yet he bore precious seed, and God ble"ised his ministry to the saving of :-:ouls. He continued in tbe regular work with increasing usefulnes~ to the Church, until the Conference of 1813, when he look a local relation. He had entered into the estate of matrimony with Mrs. Eli­zabeth A. Christian, of New Kent county, Va. during the preceding year. It is presumable the change in his relations, under the circumstances of the times, led him to retire from the active work of the ministry. But his soul was not at rest; and at the C~lnference of 1814 he was re-admitted to the itinerancy. He thenceforth gave himself fully to the WOI k of preaching the Gospel, and continued in it until 1827-8, when age and infirmity compelled him to retire. He was placed on the superannuated list, and remained in this relation to the Conference until he elosed his mortal career.

On retiring from the regular work he settled in New Kent county. In 1834 he removed to Tennessee; and from theuce, in 1839, to Livingston county, Missouri, where he terminated his life and labors on the 10th of January, 1848.

Mr. Ballew was possessed of more than orllinary strength of mind j and his attainments in biblical knowledge were very creditable. In the years of his active connexion with the Con­ference he tilled various appointments with honor to himself and usefulness to the Cburch; and he is still remembered and loved for his work's sal<e by many among whom he went preaching the kingdom of God. For several years before his death, increasing age and de­clining health admonished him t~at "the time of his departure was at hand.': H.e .was ready. His "house bad been long set 10 order." He often conversed of death, hiS spmtual state, and prospects fur the future, with great composure of mind, expressing unshaken confidence in God, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. A few days before his death, while speaking of his former labors he said, "I make no account o~ aught I have suffered i my trust is alone in the merits of Christ." On being asked as to hlS h~lpe of salvation, he said II my way is clear." And to his wife, "death has no terrors for me." In this calm and con­fiding frame of mind he closed his eyes upon earth, and weDt, a redeemed sinner to the gener&l assembly and Church of the first born in beaven.

Quest. 13. What numbers are in so­ Local Preachers. Whites. Col. ciety?

Richmond Distrnt. . Local Preachers. Whites. Col.

Ricbmond, Tranity 2 410 200 Centenary 3 385 55 Jlsbu~ 1 149 4

Richmond, Clay strel"t 70 Wesll-y Cbapel 1 60

Charles City 1 248 1 James City 247 10 York & Warwick 1 279 13 William$Ourg 90 1

232 Virginia Conference, 1849.

Local Preachers. Whites. Col. Local Preachers. Whites. Col. Hampton 2 158 Manchester 150 6 Gloucester 5 1025 1 Powhatan 1 221 2 Mathews 3 682 12 Amelia 6 5~0 50 King William 1 146 Sussex 6 550 8

Southampton 4 626 82 20 3949 297 Smithfield 3 290 193

Fredericksburg DistTict. Prince George 3 400 50 Factories Mission 3 227

Fredericksburg 3 89 Caroline 3 288 5 34 4299 702 Hanover 7 1085 40 King & Queen 4 465 7 Norfolk District. Lancaster 1 410 123 'Veslmoreland 366 20 Norfolk 1 694 810 King George 167 2 Portsmouth 2 525 Fauquier & Stafford 1 349 13 African Church 523 Warrenton 4 290 8 Gosport 1\1 ission 1 115 Leesburg & other places 3 320 5 Eastville 4 307 250 Alexandria 2 340 Suffolk 3 369

Gates 5 752 158 28 4169 223 Murfreesboro' 1 409 22

Charlottesville DistTict. Edenton 84. 237 Hertford 3 470 200

Charlottesville 125 16 Pasquotank 6 900 128 Albemarle 2 550 67 Elizabeth City 1 165 208 Scottsville 3 460 27 Camden 5 515 231 Fluvanna 2 482 64 Princess Anne 6 1053 376 Loui!;a 1 347 17 Currituck Mission 255 18 Culpeper 3 518 14 Pasqllotank & Durant's Madison 5 5]0 12 Neck 301 Harrisonburg & Elk run 3 185 10 Blue Ridge Mission 210 38 6613 3462

19 3387 227 RECAPITULATION.

Lynchbwrg District. Local Preachers. Whites. Col. Lynchburg 3 367 200 Richmond District 20 3949 297 Bedford 1 ]030 204 Fredericksburg District 28 4169 223 Campbell 6 781 80 Charlottesville District 19 3387 227 Charlotte 3 505 81 Lynchburg District 23 4566 647 Cumberland 265 11 Randolph Macon Dis. 22 3!i55 333 Buckingham 3 4% 15 Petersburg District 34 4299 702 Appomattox 140 7 Norfolk District 38 6613 3462 Nelson 4 356 17 Amherst 3 697 32 Numbers this year. 184 30,938 5891

Local preachers 184 23 4566 647

Randol;ph Macon District. 31,122 5891 Numbers last year 29,565 5913

Randolrh Macon & Boydton 2 91 Increase 1557

Randolph Macon Circuit 1 310 36 Decrease 22 Mecklenburg 2 714 18 Greensville 2 243 28 Quest. 14. n hat amounts are necessary Northampton 5 674: 103 for the superannuated preachers, and the Brunswick 7 653 52 widows and orphans of preachers, to make Lunenburg 1 315 12 up the deficiencies of those who have not Nottoway, 289 11

obtained their regular allowance on the Prince Edward 2 565 36 Farmville 101 37 circuits, and for the support of the Rev.

22 3955 333 Bishops?

$5504 04. Petersbu1'g DistTict. Quest. 15. What has been collected o~

Petersburg, Washi'gton st. 2 550 the foregoing accounts, and hO'W has it Union street 307 been applied? High street ] 290

There has been collected the sum of Chesterfield 5 475 4

Virginia Conference, 1849. 233

$2688 04, which has been applied as CHARLOTTESVILLE DISTRICT. follows: To the Bishops $365 00 To the superannuated preachers To the widows & orphans 1437 68 '1'0 the supernumerary and de-

ficient preachers 865 86 To the travelling expenses of

lay stewards $19 50 Quest. 16. What has been contributed

for the support of Missions, and what for Sunday School Books ?

For Missions $8151 R3 For Sunday School Books 748 29

Quest. 17. H7tere are the preachers stationed this year '?

RICHMOND DISTRICT. James E. Joyner, P. E. Richmond:

John Early, Book Agent. Leroy M. Lee, Assistant Agent and

Editor Richmond C. Advocate. '1'rinity, Anthony Dibrell. Centenary and Oregon, Henry B.

Cowles. Asbury, William H Wheelright. Clay st. Mission, George W. Carter. Wesley Chapel, to be suppled.

Charles City, Benjamin F. Woodward. James City & New Kent, Thos. Diggs. York & Warwick, John S. Briggs. Williamsburg, Jobn B. Dey. HamptoD, Josephus Anderson. Gloucester, John W. Childs, T. J. Bay ton. Matthews, .fllexander Stetoart. King William, Thos. A. Pearce.

FREDERICKSBURG DISTRICT.

J. H Davis,P. E. Fredericksburg, P. F. Auguste. Caroline, J. Lear. Hanover, Robert Scott. King & Queen, T. S. D. Covington. Lancaster, William M. Ward, Richard

Stephens. Westmoreland, John C. Garlick. Kin!!' George, John Bayley. Fauquier & Stafford? Joseph- Carson. Warrenton, R. T. Nzxon, Jas. A. Duncan. LeeRburg, Davis P. Wills Fairfax, Jesse Powers. Loudoun, K. Adams. Alexandria, Leo. Rosser. Stafford Mission, to be supplied.

S. T. Moorman, P. E. Charlottesville, S. Field. Albemarle, .!1rchibald Clark. Scottsville, J. S. R. Clark. Fluvanna, J. Shough, David Wood, Su­

pernumerary. Louisa, J. Manning. Orange, Thomas H. Haynes, G. W. S.

Harper, Supernumerary. Culpeper, Thomas L. Hoyle, Jas. Brannin. Rappahannock, Esmond Gibbs. Madison,. George W. Deems, J. R.

Waggoner. Harrisonburg & Elk Run, B. H Johnson. Goochland, to be supplied. Blue Ridge Mission, to be supplied.

LYNCHBURG DISTRICT. Geo. W. Nolley, P. E. Lynchburg, Geo. W. Langhorne. Bedford, A. Wiles, M. L. Bishop. Campbell, Elijah Chambers. Staunton, J. L. Clark. Charlotte, J. D. Southall. Cumberland~ F. ~. Mitchell. Buckingham, M. .11. Dunn, J. J. Cren-

shaw, Supernumerary. Appomattox, John A. Doll. Nelson, John W. Howard. Amhers.t, Robert .fl. Gregory. To people of color in Amherst,. Henry D.

Wood. N. Thomas, Agent Female Collegiate

Institute, Buckingham.

RANDOLPH MACON DISTRICT. T. Crowder, P. E. R M C 11 0' } Wm . .fl. Smith, Pres't.

. . 0 eoe, B. R. Duval, Agent. R. Macon Cellege and Boydton, John D.

Blackwell. R. Macon Circuit, George W. Andrews. Mecklenburg, D. J. C. Slaughter, J. G.

Rowe. Greensvil1e, to be supplied. Northampton, E. P. Wilson. Southampton, Wm. C. Blount, B. Devany,

Sup. . Brunswick, T. Wheeler, J. D. Bond. Lunenburg, to be supplied, M. M. Dance,

Sup. Nottoway, T. C. Hayes. Prince Edward, Samuel Walsh, one to be

supplied. Farmville, John C. Granberry.

234 .Arkansas Conference, 1849.

PETERSBURG DISTRICT. Wm. B. Rowzee, P. E. Petersburg:

Washington street, D. S. D()ggett. V nion street, George .11.. Rain, Sup. High slreet, N. Head. Wesley Chapel, John Kerr.

Chesterfield, S. W. Jones. Manchester, F. J. Boggs. Powhatan, John Y. Cash. Amelia, J . .fl.. Riddick, E. P. Murrill. Dinwiddie, J. W. White, H. P. Nelms. Sussex, J. M . .I1.rnold, Geo. W. Charlton,

Slip. Smithfield, T. H. Jones. Prince George, R. Sewell. Factory Mission, George N. Winfree. Murfreesborough, Jas. P. Owen, G. W.

Trimyer. NORFOLK DISTRICT.

J. D. Coulling, P. E. Norfolk, J. E. Edwards, C. W. Pether·

bridge.

Norfolk, African Mission, W. H. Slarr. Portsmouth:

Robert Michaels, V. EBkridge, Sup. African Church, to be suppiied.

Gosport, W. Il. Rohr. Eastville, H. H. Gary. Suffolk, W. J. Norfleet. Gates, J. M. Saunders. Edenton, P. Doll. Hertford, W. W. Kenn~y. Pasquotank, W. Grant. Elizabeth City, W. G. Cr08B. Camden, H. Billups. Princess Ann, W. Reed, J. C. Spiller. Currituck Mission, L. S. Reed. Durant's Neck and Pasquotank Mission,

.11.. Carner.

A. L. Hamilton transferred to St. Louis Conference.

Quest: 18. Where and 1J)hen ,hall the next Conference be held 'I

At Richmond, Va.

9.-ARKANSAS CONFERENCE, November 8, 1849.

Quest. 1. Who are admitted on trial? Silas Spurrier, D. L. G. McKenzie,

Thomas Hunt, P. Bassham, B. S. Car· dow, 1. H. Rice, J. M. Rogers, C. C. Jones, G. F. Thompson-9. Re·admit· ted, J. D. Stockton, H. C. Thweatt.

Quest. 1. Who remain on trial 'I

B. Harris, William J. Stafford, J. B. Thetford, W. T. Thornberry, J. M. Jones, S. Morris, J. E. Cobb, D. H. Caruthers, R. Martin, H. G. Carden, Young Ew­ing-II.

Quest. 3. Who are admiUed into full connexion 'I

J. M. Boyd, R. M. Morgan, E. F. McNabb-3.

Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons 'I J. M. Stevenson, R. M. Morgan, Jas.

Rice, J. M. Boyd, and E. F. McNabb, were elected but not ordained-b.

Quest. 5. Who have been elected and ordained Elders this year 'I

J. W. Shook, H. A. Sugg, L. P. Lively, J. J. Pittman, W m. O. Williams,

and R. 1\1. Kirby, were elected, but not ordained-6.

Quest. 6. Who have located this year 1 Jos. F. Tinnan, Wm. A. Cobb, 'r. G.

T. Steel-3.

Quest. 7. Who are the supernumeraries? None.

Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated or 'Worn out preachers 'I

John Harris, T. Owen, Jacob White. side, W. T. Anderson-4.

Quest. 9. Who have been expeUedfrom the connexion this year 'I

None. Quest. 10. Who have 'Withdrawn from

the connexion this year 'I None.

Quest. 11. Are all the preachers blame· less in life and conver8ation 'I

Their names were ca lIt'd , and their characters examined and passed, one by one.

Quest. 12. Who haoe died thil year 7 None.

.I1rkansa. Conference, 1849. 235

Quest. 13. What numbers are in society?

Little Rock District. Washington Distrid. Whites. Col. Whites. Col.

Little Rock Wash'gtoll ct. 490 28 station 106 173 Camden sta. 79 27

Prairie cir. 123 13 " cir. 416 84 Cadron" 174 Arkadelphia 227 51 Dover " 409 9 Blue Bavou 386 44 ClarksviJIe 371 23 Little River 181 21 Dardanelle 135 4 Red River Perr} vi!le African mis.

mission 203 6 La Fayeue Benton cir. 325 20 mission 53 20

220

Muntgomery Eldorad~ cir. 480 180 circuit 214 6 Princeton ct. 374 7

to make up the deficiencies of those '1J)ho have not ubtained their regular allowance on the circuits?

$2924 01. Quest. 15. What has been collected on

the foregoing accounts? 'fwo hundred and thirteen dollars and

eighty cents, including one hundred dol­lal's drawn as a dividend from the Nash­ville C. Advocate, appropriated as fol­lows:

$1 20 27 00

2060254 Batewille District.

Princeton Atrican mis.

To G. F. Thompson To J. H. Blakely To Joseph Kemp

65 To John Harris 5 50

59 00 59 00 59 00

Batesville station 95 57

Batesville ct. 287 23 Greenbrier mission

Elizabeth Smithville Salem mis. Richwoods missklll

LillIe R£'d River mis.

214 2 121 26 322 25 206 17

95

144 12

1484 162 Fayetteville District.

Fayettville circuit 316 45

Bentonville 266 24 Van Buren&. Ft. Smith 92 28

Ft. Smith ct. 173 1 Ozark 196 HUDtsville 329 9 Carrolton 315 13 YellviUemis.217 2 Jasper " 176 2

2U80 124

2686 747 Pine Bluff Dist1'ict.

Pine Bluff sta. 33 Pine Bluff cir. 46 100 Plumb Bayou 50 93 Napoleon 70 63 Arkansas 82 12 Columbia 69 22 Warren 97 12 White Oak 216 12 Harrison &,

Fountain Prairie 282 57

945 371 Hele1/a District.

H£'lena sta. 62 26 " cir. 178

Lawrenceville 91 1 Mt Vernon 291 16 Mississippi Marion 145 20 Osceola 102 15 Green mis. 208 3 Helena Af. mission 80

1077 161

RECA.PITULATION.

Whites. Colored. Little Rock District 2060 254 Batesville " 1484 162 Fayetteville " 2080 124 Washington " 2686 747 Pine Bluft' " 945 371 Helena " 1077 161

10332 1819 Local preachers 153

Total this year 10485 1819 " last year 9681 1736

Increase this year 804 83

Quest. 14. What amounts are neces­sar!! for the superannuated preacj£ers and the 'Widows and orvhanB of'lJ1'eacJltu8. and

To Jacob Whitesides To T. Owen To postage & stationery 3 10

$213 80

NOTE.-The Bi~hops' claims have been met by a benevolent gtmtleman of New Orleans.

Quest. 16. What has been collected for the support of Missions; what for Sunday School Books, and what for the American Bible Society? For Missions $554 85 " Sunday School Books (not

answered.) II Bible Society 48 00 Quest. 17. Where are the preachers

stationed this year?

LI'fTLE ROCK DISTRICT. Stephen Carlile, P. E. Little Rock Station, Wm. P. Ratcliffe. Prairie, C . .M. Staver. Louisburgh, S. Farrish. Dover, to be supplied. Clarksville, J. J. Pitman. Daldanelle, H. .!1.. Sugg. Perryville Mission, E. F. McNabb, and

one to be supplied. Benton & Washita, J. M. Boyd, J. H.

Rice. Montgomery, James Rice.

BATESVILLE DISTRICT. Jl. Ilunter, P. E. Batesville Station, to be supplied.

" Circuit, R. M. Kirby. Elizabeth, W. T. Thornberry. Smithville, J. M. Rogers. Missions: Grenbrier, D. H. Caruthers.

Salem, .!1.. Webber. Little Red River, R. Martin.

236 Memphis Conference, 1849.

Richwoods Mission, B. S. Carden. Soulesberry Institute, to be supplied.

FA YETTEVILLE DISTRICT. Thomas Stariford, P. E. Fayetteville Circllit, R. M. Morgan. Van Buren & Fort Smith, J. Estabrook. Fort Smith Circuit, J. B. Thetford j one

to be supplied. Ozark, William J. Stafford. Huntsville, J. M. Jones. Carrollton, J. W. Shook. Bentonville, to be supplied. Missions : Yellville, P. Bassham.

Jasper, J. D. Stockton. Elm Spring School, to be supplied.

John Harrell is agent for the American Bible Society.

WASHINGTON DISTRICT. William Moores, P. E. Washington Circuit, J. J. Robertsj Sam'}

Morris. Camden Station, T. E. Garretl.

" Circuit, G. W. Cottingham. Arkiadelphia, J. E. Cobb. Blue Bayou, to be supplied. Little Ri\'P,l', H. G. Carden. El Dorado, L. P. Lively; one to be

supplied. Princeton, J. H. Blakely. Missions: Lafayetle, J. M. Stevenson.

Princeton Afr. to be supplied. Red River, Wm. B .• Mason.

C. P. Turrentine, Superintendent of

Washington Male & Female Seminary. H. C. Th weatt, Agent of Washington

Male & Female Seminary.

PINE BLUFF DISTRICT. .0. . .o.very, P. E. Pine Bluff Station, .0.. M. Barrington.

I! Circuit, Young Eweing. Plumb Bayou, F. Brown. Arkansas, D. L. G. McKenzie. Colombia, John F. Truslow. Warren, J. W. Shipman. While Oak, to be supplied. Harrison) Peter Haskew. Napoleon, to be supplied.

HELENA DISTRICT. J. M. Steele, P. E. Helena Station, J. Cowle.

" Circuit, C. C. Jones. Lawrenceville, G. F. Thompson. Marion, William Finn. Osceola, S. Spurrier. Mount Vernon, Thomas Hunt. Gainesville Mission, B. Harris. Helena African Mission, to be supplied.

L. S. Marshall and L. C. Adams left without appointments, at their own reo quest.

Wm. O. Williams transferred to Mis· sissippi Conference.

Quest. 18. Where arad when 8hall the next Conferl'.l1ce be held 'I

A t Fayetteville, Washington county, Arkansas.

10.-MEMPHIS CONFERENCE, November 14-22,1849.

Quest. 1. What preachers are admitted on trial'?

John W. Abell, Amariah Biggs, James J. Brooks, Benajah B. Brown, John A. Campbell, James L. Chapman, David M. Collins, Stevenson H. Ellis, Isham G. Hearn, Jeremiah Moss, John H. Porter, William Price, William H. Riley, James 1\1. Scott, Ferdinand L. Steel, Ashley R. Wilson-16.

Quest. 2. Who remain on trial? Joseph rr. C. Collins, Hutson D. How.

ell, Elias Jackson, William T. Myers John C. Reed, William E. SuIli,.-an' Albert H. Thomas, Jesse M. Valentine; Tho~u A. Ware, John Young-lO.

Quest. 3. Who are admitted into full cOl1nexion '?

James L. Culpepper, James M. Hamp· ton, Bryant Medlin, John P. Richardson, Alexander B. Winfield-5.

Quest. 4. Who are the Deac011s'? Those above 'Who were admil1ed into

full connexion, and John F. Blythe, Cleo ment C. Glover, Joseph Johnson, Peter J. Kelsey, Levi B. L€e, Jesse P. l.owry, William J. Mahon, Valentine H. lIey, William W. Peeples, Augustus R. Win· field-tO.

Quest. 5. Who hat1e been elected lInd ordained Elders this year?

Anderson B. Fly, William H. Leigh, John Moss. Robert V. 'faylor-4.

Memphis Ctmfermct, 1849. 237

Quest. G. WI/o have located this year? Gideon H. Bransford, W m. W. Caul­

der, Sam. R. Davidson, Nathaniel R. Jar­rett, Gllilford Jones, Jeremiah Williams, Samuel M. Blacksbire-7.

Quest.7. WJw are the supernumeraries? 'V.lliam S. Jones, Lorenzo D. Mullins,

Philip Tuggle, Jas. R. Walker, Wesley Warren, Edmund J. Williams-6.

Quest. 8. Jf7/.O are the superannuated or worn out preachers?

Reuben Ellis, Daniel W. Ga.rrard, Va­lentine H. lIey, William Lambdin, Jos. Travis-5.

Quest. 9. Who have been expelledfrom the connexion this year '1

None.

Quest. 10. Who have withdrawn from the connexion this year?

None.

Quest. 11. Are all the preachers blame­less in life and conversation?

Their names were called, and their cha­racters examined and passerl, one by OIle, except Thomas Smith, who was sus­pended from the ministry.

Quest. 12. Who have died this year?

JAMES D. RHODES. He was admitted on trial in the Memphis Conference, November, 1841, and ended his labors in Carrul\ville Circuit, on the 12th of June, 1849. He was at the house of a brother in the town of Carroll ville, Mi. and ready to set ou t for his appointment to T!reac~, when going into the yard 10 observe the clouds, he was instantly killed by H. Hroke of Itghtnmg. OUf brother was an acceptable and diligent preachE'r and pastor, but hiS hody was weak and hi!" health imperfect. We have no donbt of his entire readiness for his sudden removal from time to eternity. May we improve the admonition of his death, and be ready also.

Er.L4.s H. RHODES, brother of James, has also been taken from his labors to his recompense; and his death, too, was occasioned by an unusual cause. It was produced by having had one of his teeth extracted. Inflammation ensued, and re~u1ted in mortification and death. Conscious of approaching dissoll1lioll, he gave glory to God, and died in the triumph of laith, rejoicing in hope of eVf'rlasting life, June 6, 1819. He was born in Mulenburg counly, Ky. March 22, 1825; joined the church in the year 1842; and was admitted on trial in the Memphis Conference in 1845. During his brief course, he labored with great success in Benton Mission, and in Troy, Dresden, and Jacinto Circuits, where he was much esteemed and has left many friends.

Quest. 13. What numbers are in so- Whites. Col. Whites. Col. ciety? Oxford Dist1·id. Af.mis. 119

Oxford 395 55 Richmond 422 94 Mempkis District. Whites. Col. Cotleeville 829 9" Carrollville 239 9

Whites. Col. Whiresville 487 Af: mis. ]38 Fulton 323 34 Memphis 196 Af.mis. 147 Granada 109 58 Ripley 580 80 South Mem- Denmark Granada ct. 301 167 Salem 602 ]27 phis 180 Af. mis. 249 Charleston 141 20

Foundry & Penola 153 7 39~1 1652 Col. mis. 21 190 4345 1773 Belle Monte 226 27R Lexington District.

Holly Spr'gs 116 Jatfcson District. Pine Ridge 325 37 Lexington lW5 49 Af. mis. 206 Jackson 161 76 Camden 6aO 15

Holly Spr'gs Jack!'-on ct. 1106 74 2479 856 Henderson 546 39 circuit 846 48 Trenton 98 33 Aberdeen Di$trict. MI. Pinson 552 34 Af. mis. 427 Trenton ct. 876 74 Aberdeen 249 Clover Cr'k

Marshall 712 21B Dyersburg 525 26 Af. mis. 136 mission 261 3 Hernando 645

Pari~ 54 57 Aberdeen Purdy 992 57 Af. mis. 264 Paris cir. S78 15i circuit 296 Porter's

Chnlahoma 543 102 Af. mis. 208 Creek 412 14 Delta 19;' 25 3698 497 Prairie Af. Eastport 415 23 Tunica mis. 65 81 mission 676 Jacinto 880 36 Bolivar mis. 101 119 P'1ducal£ District. Houston 299 93

Paducah 129 29 Pontotoc 911 76 5823 270 3620 1680 Lovelace-

Somerville Disl1'i-Ct. vil1e 3il 29 RECAPITULJ. TJON.

Somerville 91 51 Benton 562 9 Whites. Colored. Somerville Murray 657 14 circuit 758 300 Dresden 813 72 Memphis District 3620 1680

Randolph 451 108 Moscow 832 29 Somerville Dtstrict 4345 1773

Wesley 570 244 Cliaton 845 44 Jackson District 3,,98 497

Brownsville 775 3i4 Troy 257 Paducah Di~trict 4466 226

Denmark 596 20 Oxford District 2479 856

Lagruge 4:;t7 280 4466 226 Aberdeen District 3921 1602

238 Memphis Conference, 1849.

Whites. Colored. MEMPHIS DISTRICT. Lexington District 5823 270 .Jtfoses Bl'Ock, P. E.

Memphis, SingletonJ. Henderson, Francis A. Owen.

28352 6954 Local Preachers 370

Total 28722 6954 South Memphis, Albert H. Thomas, Jas.

Total last year 26677 6634

Increase 2045 320

Quesl. 14. Wliat amounts are neces­sary for the supe,rannuated preachers, and the widows and orphans of preach­ers, and io m,ake up the deficiencies of those who have not l'eceived their regular allowance on the circuits, and for the sup­port of the Bishops 'I

$3,321.

Quest. 15. What has been collected on the foregoing accounts, and how has it been applied?

From the circuits and stations, there has been received eleven hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-two cents; fl'om the Relief fund, three hundred and forty­three doUars and seventy-five cents; from the NashvilJe Christian Advocate, one hundred dollars; and 1'1. donation from J. L. Drake of five <ioUars; making tbe sum of fifteen hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-seven cents; and this has been applied as follows:

To the Bishops, three hundred and fifty dollars; to superannuated preachers, two hundred and sixty dollars; to widows and orphans, six: hundred and thirty.six dollars and fifty cents i and to make up the deficiencies of the quarterly allow­ance to pi'eachers, six hundred and seventy dollars and eighty·five cents.

Quest. 16. What has been contributed for the 8ttpport of misl>-ions; what for Sunday School books; and u,hat to aid the Am,erican Bible Society and its auxil­iaries?

For Missions, the sum of six thousand seven hundred and seventy· one dollars; for Sunday School Books, fOllr hundred and fifty·eight dollars j and to aid the American Bible Society, five hundmd and eighty-seven dollars. Ollr returns, however, for Sunday Schools and the publication of Bibles have not been full by any means.

Quest. 17. Where are the preachers 8tatiofted tkis year 'I

R. Walker, Supernumerary. Marsha]), Samuel Watson, SfJm. Gilleland. Holly Springs, James N. Temple. Holly Springs Circuit, Michael J. Black.

well. African Mission, Charles B. Harris. Chulahoma, Christtnburg Lee, John W.

Abell. Hernando, Meredith H. Neall, David C.

Wells. African Mission, William R. Dickey. Delta, John .11. C. Manly. 'funica Mission, John H. Porter. Bolivar Mission, John A. Campbell.

Joseph B. Douglass is appointed to the Marshall I nstimte.

Stephen G. Starks is appointed to the Franklin Female College at Holly Sprg's.

SOMERVILLE DISTRICT. George W. n. HarriE, P. E. Somerville, William W. Peeples. Somerville Circuit, Wllliam M. McFerrin,

Thomas A. Ware, Lorenzo D. Mullins, Supernumerary.

Randolph, Edmund J. Williams, Super. numerary; one to be SUFplied.

'Wesley, John T. Baskerville, Nathan Sui· livan.

Brownsville, John Randle; one to be sup­plied.

Denmark, William N. Mfrgon. Whitesville, John A. Vincent, Joseph T.

C. Collins. Lagrange, David J. .I111en, Isham G.

Hearn. JACKSON DISTRICT.

James W. McFarland, P. E. Jackson, William C. Rohb. Jackson Circuit, Isaac N. Manly, James

J. Brooks. Trenton, Robert V. Taylor. Trenton Circuit, Robert Gregory, Hutson

D. Howell. Dyershurg, Bryant Medlin, Ashley R.

Wilson. Paris, James L. Chapman, Wesley War·

ren, Supernultlerary. . . Paris Circuit, James M. Mojor, William

Price, Wm. S. Jone., Super_Dumerary.

North Carolina Oonference, 1849. 239

Camden, Matthew F. Mitchell. Lorenzo Lea and .flmos W. Jones are

appointed to the Conference Female In­stitute at Jackson, Tenn.

PADUCAH DISTRICT. Joseph H. Brooks, P. E. Paducah, John Moss. Lovelaceville, Daniel TaM. Clark's River, Levi B. Lee. Murray, John P. Stanfield. Dr£sdp.n, Jesse P. LOW1'y, Elias Jackson. Moscow, William H. Leigh, William H.

Riley. Clinton, James L. Culpepper, Jeremiah

Moss. Madrid Bend Mission, Ro. M. Tarrant. Wadesboro' Mission, \Vm. E. Sullivan.

LEXINGTON DISTRICT. .9.rthur Davis, P. E. Lexington, Needham .fl. D. Bryant. Henderson, Peter J. Kelsey. Mount Pinson, Finley Bynum. Purdy, James Perry. Porter's Creek, William T. Myers. Eastport, Robert Martin. Jacinto, Joseph Johnson, Philip Tuggle,

Supernumerary. Rienza, John F. Blythe. Clover Creek Mission J Elias Tidwell.

ABERDEEN DISTRICT. Thomas L. Boswell, P. E. Aberdeen, James W. Knott. African Church, William L. B,mner. Aberdeen Circuit, William J. Mahon. African Mission, to be supplied. Prairie African Mission, John Young. Houston, .fllex. C. Chisholm.

Pontatoc, to be supplied. Pontatoc Circuit, Samuel B. Carson, Ste-

venson H. Ellis. African Mission, Thomas J. Lowry. Ripley, James IV Bates, James M. Scott. Salem, John W. Walkup. Carl'OlIville, Alexander B. Winfield. Fulton, Clement C. Glover. Richmond, James M. Hampton.

OXFORD DISTRICT.

Robert L. Andrews, P. E. Oxford, R. F. Colburn, D. L. Andrews. Spring Hill, John Hunter. Coffeeville, S. H. Mullan, D. M. Collins. Pine Ridge, Ferdinand L. Steel. Granada, Jesse F. Walsh. Granada Circuit, Lewis H. Davis. Charleston, one to be supplied j John C.

Reed . Belle Monte, William McMahan, Benajah

B. Brown. Penola, Anderson B. Fly.

William H. Seat is transferred to the Mississippi Conference.

Benjamin Watson and Augustus R. 'Vinfield are traru.t'erred to the Arkansas Conference.

.I1'nariah Biggs is transferred to the Indian :\1ission Conference.

John P. Richardson and Jesse M. Va­lentine are transferred to the Florida Con­ference.

Quest. 18. Where anti when shall our next Conje1'fmce be held?

At Trenton, Tenn. The time to be fixed by the Bishops at their meeting in May next.

ll.-NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE, November, 1849.

Quest. 1. Who are admitted on trial? L. S. Birckhead, Z. Rush, A. H. John­

son, Paul J. Carraway-4. Quest. 2. Who remain on trial? G. A. Gowin, L. L. Hendron, J. J.

Hines, W. J. Langdon, Jas. L. Fisher-5. Quest. 3. Who are admitted into full

connexion? R. R. Dunkley, J. M. Fulton, W. O.

Reid, J. W. Wilson, Chs. K. Parker-5. Quest. 4. Who are the Dt;acons? W.O. Bobbitt, S. M. Frost, J. H. Jer·

ferson, L. W. Martin, ordained last year, and R. R. Dunkley, J. M. Fulton, W. O. Reid, J. W. Wilson, C. K. Parker, or­dained this year-9.

Quest. 5. Who have been elected and or· dained Elders?

J. W. Floyd, Joseph B. Martin, W. J. Parkes-3.

Quest. 6. Who have located this year?

P. W. Archer, N. Anderson, Samuel Pearce-3.

240 North Carolina Conference, 1849.

Quest. 7. Who are the supernumerary preachers?

B. T. Blake, Addison Lea-2. Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated

preachers? James Patterson, Thompson Garrard,

W. Holmes, J. Bethel, J. F-l. Watson, J. McDonald, T. 13 Reeks, H. H. Tippett, J. Pervis, J. R. McIntosh, B. M. Williams, R. C. Maynal'd-12.

Quest. 9. Who have withdrawn this year 1 None. Quest. 10. Who have been expelled this

year? A. Owens. Quest. 11. Were the characters of all

the preachers examined? This was strictly attended to.

Quest. 12. rVho have died this year?

JOHN A. MILLER, son of Armstead Miller and Susannah, the daughter of George Redd, was born March 9th, li99, in the county of Prince Edward, and State of Virginia. At an early age he was impressed with a sense of religion and the importance of living up to its precepls, in order to be happy in life and prepal'ed for death. His parents were Baptists. When ten years old, his most affectionate mother was taken from him, and when about thirteen, he lost his father. At this age he was placed by his uncle in a book·"'lOre in Petersburg, where he remained five years and six months. During this time he fell into many vices common to that day and place, although his deportment was unobjectionable, and in a worldly sense estimable. The fruits of early religious instructions, imparted by his mother, were often felt by him in checks of conscience and strong convictioo1', in the coarse of error and impropriety in which he witlked while iT, Petersburg. These were the cam,e of his seeking a country life. He returned to his niltive cuunty. Here, however, for a while his resolutions gave way, and his course was as it had been-in the folJies and waywardness of youth. In 1823, under the preaching of the Rev. Enoch Johnson, sent that year to the Amelia Circuit, hI' was powerfully convicterl, and resolved on an entire change of life; he went up to the altar of prayer, availed himself carefully /lnd diligently of other means of grace, sought his Maker const~ntly, and found him in his forgiving mercy.

His wish now was to do the work of his hC'avenly Father. This he endeavored to ascertain satisfactorily. He btlieved he was called of God to tbe ministry; was employed by the Pre­siding Elder of Meherrin District to travel on the Mecklenburg Circuit in 1826. In 1827, went up to Conference ill Peter,..burg, duly recommended; was received on trial, and sent to Bedford Circuit. In 1828 he travelled the Amherst Cir('uit. At the Conference in Lynchburg, in 1829, he was received into full connexion and ordained Deacon. Two years after, be was ordained Elder in the Church of God, and cl)ntinued as an itinerant, travelling under the di­rections of the Conference and Bishops until the year ]840, when he asked fur and obtained a superannuated relation. In this relation he was continued until be left by death.

Brother Miller travelled many years as a married man. His companion was a daughter of Dr. Williams, of Martin county, North CaTll\ina-a mo~t amiable and pious lady, who, with her children, is an object, and a worthy object, of onr Christian attention and regard. The oldest son, though not converted at the time of his fathef's death, and quite young, took up and has continued family prayer. He now, with others of the children, profess reli~ion. Brother Miller was, in point of talents, of the middle clas~, in diligence, constancy, integrity and piety of the first order. A better man rilrely appears. He was exemplary in his course, ardent in his piety, and devout in his life. His success as a minister encourged him to belit've that he had not mistaken his call. When death came he was ready; calm and undiRmayed he sweetly slept in the arms of his Saviour. He now rests from his labors, and his works follow him. It is, we believe, surely with himas it is expressed in Divine revelation, "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord."

"There, on those high and flowery plains, His spirit ne'er shall tire; But in perpetual, joyful strains, Redeeming love admire."

Quest.13. What numbers are in society? Whiles. Col. Greensboro' 135 82

Raleigh, nistl'id. Whites. Col. Gllilford 667 112 Whites. Col. Frankl'ville 338 35 Randolph 822 66

Raleigh 213 232 Pittsboro' & Davidson 770 95 Raleigh cir. 394 51 Haw River 703 322 Iredell 847 239 Raleigh City T. Ri ver Mi. 195 21 Ta V lorsville 232 40

Mission 30 Wilkes 588 108 Tar Rh'er 703 66 4341 952 Jonesville 740 39 Henderson 293 46 Salisbury District. Stokes 983 98 Granville 753 95 Mocksville 677 120 ----Hillsboro' "119 84 Salisbury z:J.7 7'2 6688 1071

Whites. Col. Danville J)Ulrict.

Danville 66 2 Pittsylvanja 520 66 Franklin 334 66 Alleghany 158 9 Patrick 249 23 Henry 293 42 Rockingh'm 481 60 Caswell 740 38 Person 401 73 Halifax 469 J56

North Carolina Conference, 1849. 241

Whites. Col. Surry 3tl5 15

4101 508 Washington District.

Washington 133 365 Plymouth 116 47 Roanoke 670 62 Tarboro' 331 199 Columbia 360 80 Neuse 210 ~17 Mattamus-

Newbern District. Whites. Col.

Newbern 190 815 Snow Hill 518301 Smithfield 384 :32 Sampson 801 435 Duplin 244 291 Topsail ]90 200 Onslow 352 231 Trent 409 171 Beaufort 204 169 Straits 242 47

keet 268 68

66 Lenoir Mis. 140 40 5 Cape Look-Bath

Pl>rtsmouth & Ocracoke 123

Hatteras

out Mission 26 S. Ri ver Mis. 200

1917 1053

RECAPITULATION.

Raleigh District Sali:-;bury District Danville District Washington District Newburn District

Local Preachers

Total this year TOlallast year

Increase this year Decrease

Whites. 4341 6688 4101 1917 4066

21113 145

21258 20630

6:J8

4066 2935

Colored. 952

1071 508

1053 2935

6519

6519 6556

37

Quest. 14. JVhat amount.~ are necessary for the superannuated preachers and the widows and orphans of preachers, and to make up the deficiencies of those who have not obtained their regular allowances on the circuits?

Not answered in the manuscript. Quest. 15. What has been collected on

the foregoing accounts, and how has it been applied?

Collected A pplied as follows:

Bishops By special donations:

Mrs. Speck ann children Mrs. Jeter and children J. H. Watson Mrs. Miller and children

Pro Rata Disbursements: T. R. Bmme's son A. H. Tucker William Holmes R. C. Mayna.rd T. Garrord J. R. McIntosh H. H. Tippett

$1253 85

200 00

50 00 50 00 50 00 37 98

6 76 56 40 83 00 78 00 60 91 28 20 72 19

J. H. Watson B. M. Williams Mrs. Miller and children Mrs. Jeter and children Mrs. Speck and children Mrs. Compton and children James Perves J. L. Fisher

$56 40 65 42 84 00 60 76 62 04 34 96 83 46 43 37

$1253 85

Quest. 16. What has been contributed for the support of missions, and what for publication of Bibles, tracts, and Sunday school books?

According ta manuscript $3695 69

Quest. 17. Trhere are the pr~aclters sta­tioned this year?

RALEIGH DISTRICT.

D. B. Nicholson, P. E. Raleigh City, R. T. Heflin, B. T. Blake,

Supernumerary. Raleigh City Mission, W. H. Barnes. Raleigh Circuit, E. E. Freeman. Tar Hiver Circuit,L A. C. Allen. Tar River MissioI'l', J. 10hnson. Henderson, Peter Daub. Granville, William M. Jordan. Hillsboro' Circuit, D. Culbreth. Hillsboro' Stalion, to be supplied. Franklinville, J. W. Tinnin. Haw River, J. '1'. St. Clair. Pittsboro', W. ·W. Nesbitt. Samson, W. J. Duval.

C. P. Jones, Agent for the American Bible Society.

SALISBURY DISTRICT.

William Carter, P. E. Mocksville, John Tillett. Salisbury, Thomas P. Ricalld. Greensboro', A. S. Andrews. Guilford, John Rich, one to be supplied. Randolph, S. H. Helsabeck. Daviclson, W. M. Walsh. Irp.dell, J. D. Lumsden. Wilkes, W. O. Reid. TaylorsvilJe, J. W. Floyd. Stokes, L. Shell. Jonesville, D. W. Doub. Surry, J. M. Fulton.

J. Jamieson, PIofessor Greensborough Female College.

242 Mississippi Conference, 1849.

DANVILLE DISTRICT. S. D. Bumpass, P. E. Danville, N. H. D. Wilson. Piltsylvania, R. P. Bibb. Franklin, A. Norman, J. L. Nicholson,

SIJpernumerary. Alleghany, R. R. Dunkley. Staunton, G. A. Gowin. Patrick, J. J. Hines. Henry, John W. Lewis. Rockingham, to be supplied. Caswell, James Reid, W. W. Albea. Person, to be supplied. Halifax, Joseph Goodman. Bannister, J. L. Hendren.

WASHINGTON DISTRICT. R. J. Carson, P. E. Washington, S. M. Frost. Roanoke, R. O. Burton, T. S. Campbell,

L. S. Birckhead. Plymouth, J. W. Tucker. Tarboro', L. W. Martin. Columbia, Henry Grey. Mattamuskeet, P. H. Joyner. Bath, to be supplied. Portsmouth and Ocra.el)ke, to be supplied. Hatteras Mission, C. K. Parker. Neuse Circuit, P. J. Carrawa.y.

NEWBERN DISTRICT. William Closs, P. E. Newbern :

Centenary, C. F. Deems. Andrew Chapel, W. H. Bobbitt.

Snow Hill, W. S. Chaffin. Smithfield, J. 1'. Wyche, J. W. Wilson. Duplin, 'r. C. 1\1oses. Topsail, William J. Langdon. Onslow, J. H. Jefferson. Trent, J. L. Fisher, A. H. Johnson. Beaufort, J. B. Martin. Straits, Z. Rush. Lenoir Mission, N. A. Hooker. Cape Look Out, to be supplied. South River, to be supplied. Cape Fear and Black River Mission, to

be supplied. H. G. Leigh, without appointment-is

to travel at large. William J. Parks and Thomas Cassady

without appointment on account of ill health.

Quest. 18. Where and when shall our next Conference be held?

At Warrenton, North Carolina.

N OTE.-Elders not marked in the manuscript.

12.-MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE, December 5-13, 1849.

Quest. 1. What preachers are admitted on trial?

Abner W. Chapman, Myren R. Hollis­ter, Calvin McGuffee, James O. Wood­ward-4.

Quest. 2. Who remain on trial? James Carlisle, James J. Early, John

T. Kennon, Alexander A. Lewis, Joseph Newsom-5.

Quest. 3. Who are admitted into full con· nexion?

Allen Castle, Abner W.Chapman, John F. Hines-3.

Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons? Those above, admitted into full con·

nexion, except Abner W. Chapman, who is an EI(ler; and, also, Thomas W. Castle, David W. Fly, William Hines, David H. Laney, James H. Laney and George T. Vickars, who have travelled three years j

and Lewis A. Sims, who has travelled four years, but has not been examined as the Discipline directs on the course of study.

Quest. 5. Who have been electea ana or­dained Elders this year?

Willis H. Germany, John C. Miller, Daniel Morse, Abner W. Chapman-4.

Quest. 6. Who have located this year? Joab Evans, Isaac Easterly, Thomas

T. Leach, Francis A. McShann, Seaborn Hyde-5.

Quest. 7. Who are the Supernumeraries? John G. Jones and Barnabas Pipkin-2. Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated or

worn out preachers? Lewis Garrett, Peter James, Thomas

Owens, Edwin Phillips, James Watson, Thos. Clinton, John H. Davidson, Samuel Dawson-S.

Mississippi Conference, 1849. 243

Quest. 9. Who has been expelled from the connexion ?

Quest. 11. J1re all tlte preachers blame­less in life and conversation?

No one. Quest. 10. Who has withdrawn jrom

the connexion this year?

Their names were called, and their characters examined and passed, one by one.

No one. Quest. 12. Who llave died tMs year"?

SOLOMON G. SIMPKIN'S; who was born in the State of Maryland in the year 1811; moved to Vicksburg, Miss. in 183i; was shortly afterwards awakened and converted; was licensed to preach in the fall of 1840, and recommended to the Mississippi Annual Conference. He tra­velled the Crystal Spring Circuit in 1841; Natchitoches, 1842; Trinity, 1843; Baton Ronge, 1844; Yazoo, 1845; Cole's Creek, 1846; Yazoo Colored Mission, 1847; Boloxi, 184~. For the yea. 1849 he was appo~nted to Bayou Pierre Circuit, but was taken ill and died, after much suffering, before he could reach it. His end was peace and assurance forever. Our brother was not eminently gifted as a preacher, but waR distinguished for zeal, and was peculiarly successful in the management of Sunday schools.

Quest. 13. What numbers are in Society? RECAPITULATION. Whites.

2290 1391 1878 2669 2030

Colored. Covington District. Whites. Col.

Covington 80 162 Whitesand 3[4 7! Pearl River 402 50 Franklinton 226 51 St. Helena 2ti3 169 Amitte 289 100 Bay. Pierre 566 164 Gainsville 150 79 Pearl River Mission 80

2290 926 Natchez District.

Natchez 184 Washington 50 Kingston 18 Cole's Creek 319 Cole's Creek Col. Mission

Wilkinson 265 Woodville 86 Bayou Sara 20 Bayou Sara Col. Mbsion 20

Feliciana 181 Feliciana Col. Mission

SandyCreek248

363 181 40

189

325 210

90 33

225 70

400 78

1391 2204

Vicksbu1'g District. Vicksburg 177 175 Warren 466 289 Grand Gulf 125 155 Port Gibson 65 120 Crys. Spring 693 191 Clinton 252 93 Raymond 100 90

1878 1113

Sh:al'on l)istrict. Sharon 281 Canton 191 150 Vernon 70 Attala 436 162

Whites. Col. Carthage 274 26 Louisville 721 262 Starkville 378 292 Springfield 318 18 Madison Col. Mission

Grove Col. 316

99

Covington District Natchez District Vicksburg District Sharon Di:-:trict Yazoo District L. W. M. District Jack:;on District

79 2623

926 2204 1113 1489 1122 1187 614

8655 Mission McWillie's Col. Mission

Local Preachers 16!

12960 182

-- -- Total 2669 1489 Last year

13142 12252

8655 7925

Yazoo District. Increase 890 730

Yazoo City 60 32 Yazoo Cir. ]96 Ques. 14. What amounts are necessary Yazoo Col. for the superannuated preachers, the widows Mission 249005 and orphans of preachers, and to make up

Holmes 414 Middleton 532 J 58 deficiencies to those who !lave not obtained Carrollton 430 14<1 their 1'egular allowance on the circuits, and Greensboro' 248 43 for the Bishops? Benton 150 50 The amount wanted for these purposes,

2030 1122 is two thousand nine hundred and fifty. two dollars.

L. W. Mis. District. Quest. 15. What has been collected on

44 '182 the forego.ing accounts, and how lias it been 13 238 applied 1

Lake Wash­jng-ton

Batch. Bend Hill's and Deer Creek

Hampton's Bolivar

From the circuits and stations the whole amount collected has been seven hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty cents.

- -- To which sum has been added a dividend 79 1187 of one hundred dollars' from the office of

3 295 288

19 184

Jackson District. Jackson 173 131 Rankin 614 180 Hillsboro' 314 60 PhiJadeiphia249 65 Paulding 446 34 Leaf River 307 55. Biloxi 113 12

the Nashville Christian Advocate, a dona· tion of fifty dollars from James Wright, Esq. of New Orleans, and also, a dona­tion of twenty dollars from John Scott, Esq. of Louisiana, making, in aB, nine hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty cents.

Raleigh 407 77 Of this sum, one hundred and eighty-2623 614 five dollars has been applied to the suppor~

244 Mississippi Conference, 1849.

of the Bishops; a small su m. of about two dollars, was applied to contingent expenses of the Conference i and the balance was applied, pro rata, to the claimants above named.

Q,uesl. 16. What has been contributed for the support of missions; what for Sun­day school bO';ks; and what to aid the Ame­rican Bible Society and its auxiliaries?

The amount raised for missions during the year, as reported to the Conference by the preachers, is four thousand eight hundred and eighty.eight dollars and nine­teen cents j for Sunday school books, three hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty­five cents j and for the Bible cause, sixty­five dollars. For the last named of these great interests, however, we are assured that the reported sum, as above given, is verv far below the amollnt which has beell contributed by our people through auxiliary societies, and other means, not reported.

Q,uest. 17. Where are the preachers sta-tioned this year? \

COVINGTON DISTRICT. David M. Wiggins, P. E. Covington, John Lusk. Whitesand, James H. Laney.

{Pearl River, Lewis A. Sims. Colored Mission, Hardy Jlfullins.

Franklinton, George 1'. Vicars. St. Helena, Allen Castle, Barnabas Pip­

kin, Sup. Amite, William H. Germany. Bayou Pierre, Lorenzo Ercanbrack, Alex.

R. Lewis. Gainesville, Myren R. Hollister.

NATCHEZ DISTRICT. W. Hamilton Watkins, P. E. Natchez, Levi Pearce. Washington, Benjamin J't1. Drake.

{

Cole's Creek, Daniel .AIorse, John T. Kennon.

Colored Mission, John C. Johnson.

{Wilkinson, Thomas Price. Colored Mission, (to be supplied.)

Woodville, (to be supplied.)

{Bayou Sara, Benjamin Jones. Colored Mission, (to be supplied.)

{ Feliciana, Horace .AI. Booth. Colored Mission, John B. Higginbotham.

Sandy Creek, James J. Early.

John C. Miller is appointed to Centenary College.

William Winans is appointed Agent for the College.

VICKSBURG DISTRICT.

John Lane, P. E. Vicksburg, James L. Forsyth. Warren, Henry J. Harris. Grand Gulf, Jibner W. Chapman. Port Gibson Henderson 11 . • M.ontgomcry.

{

Cryslal Spring, Joseph Nicholson, Ly. sander Wiley.

Colored Mission, (to be supplied.) Clinton, James Maclennan. Raymond, George Taylor.

SHARON DISTRICT.

Asbury Davidson, P. E.

{

Sharon, Andrew T. Jl1. Fly. Colored Mission, (to be supplied.) Grove Colored Mission, (to be su pplied.)

{Canton, William H. Scat. Colored Mission, Bennett R. Truly.

{Vernon, Preston Cooper. Colored Mission, (to be supplied.)

Attala, David W. Fly. Carthage, (to be supplied.) Lewisville, James Carlisle, Jas. O. Wood­

ward. Starkesville, William "Magruder. Springfidd, (to be supplied.)

Pleasant J. Eccles is appointed to Sharon Female College.

YAZOO DISTRICT.

Green M. Rogers, P. E. Yazoo City, Orsamus L. Nash. Yazoo Circuit, Pleasant B. Bailey. Colored Mission, (to be supplied.)

{Holmes, Humphrl!Y Williamson. Colored Mission, (to be supplied.)

Middleton, John 1. E. Byrd. Carrollton, James.n. Godfrey. Greenwood, William Hines. Greensboro', John F. Hines.

LAKE WASHINGTON MISSION DISTRICT.

Lewcll Campbell, P. E. Talula, Joseph Newsom. Princeton, Peter E. Green. Batchelor's Bend E"oslus R. Strickland. Hill's P)antation~ and Deer Creek, Jame.

Y. Gri.ffing.

South Carolina Conference, 1849. 245

Hampton's Plantations, Chas. T. French. Bolivar, Tbomas W. Castle.

JACKSON DISTRICT. James Walton, P. E. Jackson City, Joseph B. lValker. R~nkin, Josiah B. DJughtray. Htllsboro', John G. Deskin. Philadelphia, Richard H. Herb.ert.

{Paulding, DrJniel.9.. J. Parker. Decatur Mission, (to be supplied.)

Leaf River Mission, Calvin C. McGuffee. Biloxi, David H. Laney. Raleigh, .9.ndrew Day.

Augustus B. Longstreet is transferred to Memphis Conference, and appointed, at the request of that Conference, to the University of the Stale of Mississippi, at Oxford, Mississippi.

Calvin .9.. Frazee is transferred to Loui­siana Conference.

Qllest. 18. W~here and when shall our next Conference be held?

At Yazoo City, the time to be fixed by the Bishops at their meeting in St. Louis next spring.

13.-S0UTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE, 1849.

Quest. 1. Who are admitted on trial? Reddick Bunch, William W. Jones,

Wm. Hutto, Julius J. Fleming, Edward J. Pennington, James N. Bouchelle, John W. North, William B. Currie, Asbury M. Rush, D. D. Byars, Reuben 'Vashbllrn. Re-admitted, John H. Robinson, Jacob Hill and Tracy R Walsh.

Quest. 2. Who remain on trial? Elms J. Meynardie, Andrew J.Cauthen,

Israel P. HLlghes, Jobn Finger, Thomas Mitchell and A. H. Harmon.

Quest. 3. Who have been admitted into full connexion?

Martin L. Banks, S. H. Dunwody, John W. J. Harris, Lewis A. Johnson, James T. Munds, John T. \Vi!Shtman.

Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons 'I John A. Mood, Addison P. Martin, H.

C. Parsons, Abner Ervin, A. G. Stacy, Alex. L. Smith, Osgood A. Chreitzberg, who were ortiained last year; and Martin L. Banks, Samuel H. Dunwo!l)', John W. J. Harria, Lewis A. Johnson, James T. Munds, <;tnd John T. Wightman, who were Ofdainecl Ihis vear.

Quest. 5. Who have been elected and ordained Elders?

Irvin O. A. Connor, Hugh F. Porter,

Paul F. Kistler, Philip R. Hoyle, Sidi H. Browne, Thomas W. Postell and Julius J. Fleming.

Quest. 6. Who have located this year'! Thos. S. Daniel, Theophilus Higgins,

Michael Robbins. Quest. 7. Who are the supernumerary

preachers? None. Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated

preachers? Bond English, Henry Bass, D. Hilliard,

S. Dunwody, James Dannelly, J. L. Belin, Joseph Moore, Reddick Pierce, C. Smith, H. Spain, Joel \V. Townsend, Jacob Hill.

Quest. 9. Who have been expeller], thi, year?

None. Quest. 10. Who have withdrawn thi8

year? None.

Quest. 11. Were all the preachers' cha­racters examined?

This was strictly attended to, by calling over their names before the Conference.

Quest. 12. Who have died this year 'I

JOHN TARRANT was born in Virginia, in 1784. He was received on trial in the South Caro. Iina Conference in 1809, was admitted into filII connexion and elected to Deacon's orders in 1811, and continued 10 Iravel Ilntil the close of the year 1813, when his conllexion with the Conference ceased by his location. He was received again at the closl' of the year 1835, and travelled sllccessi\-ely pnlil the close of the year 1815, when he was placed on the superan­nuated list, which relation he sustained Ilntil the end of his eart,hly career, on the 1st day of April last in the sixtv·fifth- year of his age. His disease was of an inflammatory nature, and was a sou'rce of milch pain and suffering', which he bore with Christiall patience and resigna­tion. He \vas a man of God, and possessed a kind and amiable spirit; and sustained the character of a plain, practical and successful minister of ollr Lord Jesus <':hril>t. The religion

246 South Carolina Conference, 1849.

of the .Bible which he embraced and urged upon others while living, sustained. him as he "passed throu~h the valley of the shadow of death." Though his path through life was beset with many snare::>, his end was peace and triumph.

Quest. 13. What numbers are in Society?

Charleston District. Whites. Col. ,Whites. Col.

Cumberland 181 1289 39 741 Trinity 291 1766

Washington District Fayetteville District Lincolnton District

Whites. 4251 5686 7550

Colored. 8438 3131 3071

41617 Bethel 167 1452 S1. James 117 167

Wateree Mission

St. Matth's Mission 123 Local preachers

34206 271

Bl'k Swamp 545 767 Waterboro' 775 847 Orangeburg 691 971 Cypress 1305 1265 Coop. River 39~ 968 Savannah

River Mis. 14 624 Edisto Island

Mission Beaufort ~nd

539

P. W. Mis. 27 362

957 Pon Pon

Mission Combahee &Asheepoo Mission 951

Coop. River 10 787 Colle ton Neck 12 150

452713862 Cokesbury District.

Cokesbury 872 1148 Edgefield 7Z2 777 Pendleton 807 270 Greenville 84 172 Greenville Circuit

Union Laurens Newberry Pickens Paris Mt. Mt. Tryon

918 140 1049 769 708 438 667 1020 336 39 451 53 110 10

6724 4836 Columbia District.

Columbia 311 504 Columbia

Circuit 383 517 Barnwell 80A 792 Sumterville 690 1483 Winnsboro' 811 820 Lancaster 597 709 Camden 70 377 Darlington 905 700 Santee· 347 1212 Gran ileville

5065 8279 Wilmington District.

Wilmington 283 749 Smithville 589 657 Conwaybo-rough 763 293

Bladen 686 854 Georgetown 148 1015 Black River 694 1161 Marion 1000 704 North San-

tee Mission Black River

677

& Pee Dee 63 1182 Waceamaw Neck

Sampit Cape Fear

25 487 226

5 433

4254 8438 Fayetteville District..

Fayetteville 194 319 Fa vette ville circuit 397 319

Rockingham590 290 Chesterfield 651 279 Wadesboro' 888 448 Bennettsv'le 821 395 Cheraw 81 155 Albemarle 661 179 Montgomery919 109 Deep River 466 178 Chera w Mis. 243 Sllciety Hill

Mission 18 217

5686 813t Lincolnton District.

Charlotte 1107 623 Concord 561 205 Lincolnton 843 416 Yorkville 387 :{54 Spartanburg 663 302 Rutherford 695 250 Shelbyville 550 lO3 Catawha 699 90 MorganlQn 7H4 350 Lenoir 682 115

Mission Congaree Mission

91 12 Pleas. Grove 579 263

13 289 RECAPITULATION.

Charleston Di::>lrict Cokesbury District Columbia District

Whites. 4527 6724 fJOG5

7550307]

Colored. 13R62 4836 8279

Total this year Total last year

34477 33,589

41617 41888

Increase this year 888 Decrease this year 271

Quest. 14. What amount i.'/ necessary to make. up the allowance') of the superan­nuated preachers, and, the wido'ws and or­phans of preacher:;, and to supply the de­jicif:.ncies of those preachers uhose claims have not been met in their circuits'?

The amount necessary to meet those claims is $4,356.

Quest. 15. What has been collected on the foregoing accounts, and how has it been applied?

The amount received is $2,089 91 j and has been appropriated as follows­being only 43i per cent. of the claims: To Rev. S. Dunwody, $87 60

" H. Spain, 108 50 " D. Hilliard, 87 50 " J. W. Townsend, 129 50 Ie John 'Vatts, 126 00 I( James Dannelly, 115 50 II C. Smllh, 150 50 II J. Moore, 43 75 " James L. Belin, R7 50 " Bond English, 87 50 " Henry Bass, 87 50

To widow Gamewell, 43 75 " Bunch and children, 54 25 II Asbury, 43 75 "HoI' 43 75 . I I, "Morgan, 43 75 II Kennedy and children, 43 75 II McPheT!>on and child'n, 54 25 II Postell ann children, 64 75 II Hoyle and child, 10 50 II Davies, 43 75 II McMackin and chi!. 50 75 II Turpin and children, 54 25 II 'l'arrunt, 43 75

To ch ild of Rev. B Thomaso~l, 10 50 To Bishops M. E. Church, So. 366 00

Quest. 16. What amount has been con-

South Carolina Conference, 1849. 247

tributed for the support of missions j uhat for Sunday school books'!

For missions, $16,535 66 For Sunday school books, $512 23 Quest. 17. Where are the Preachers

stationed this year?

CHARLESTON DISTRICT. C. Betts, P. E.

W. J\lI. Wightman, Editor of Southern Christian Advocate.

C. Taylor and B. Jenkins, Missionaries to China. Charleston:

Cumberland, W. G. Connor. 'l'rinity, James Stacy. Bet hel, Henry M .• Mood. Sl. James', A. G. Stacy.

Black Swamp, W . .Il. McSwain, Thomas Mitchell.

Savannah River Mission, W. H. Fleming, R. Bunch.

Waterboro', Paul.ll . • lif. Williams, W. 'V. Jones.

Combahee and Ashepoo Mission, J. R. Coburn, S. H. Dunwod.v.

Oakitee Mission, Joseph Warnock. Orangeburg, W. Crook, fV . .;11. Lee. Cypress, W C. Kirkland, M. L. Banks. Pon Pon Mission, S. P. Taylor. Cooper River, John W. Kelly, W. Hutto. Cooper River Mission, Thos. E. Le'ldbetter. Beaufort and Prince Vvilliam's Mission,

n. D. Cox, L. A. Johnson. Edisto, Johasse and Fenwick Islands,

Charles Wilson, H. JJ.. Baas. I

COKESBURY DISTRICT. W . .n. Gflmewell P. E.

James W. Wightman, Classical Teacher in Cokesburv School. Edgefield, W. P. Mouzon, A. H. Harmon. Uokesbury, J. H. Wheeler, S. H. Browne. Pendleton, J\lI. Puckett, one to be supplied. Pickens, John Finger. Paris Mountain, .Il. B. oIYcGilvray. Greenville, H. C. Parsons. Grecm-i1le Circuit, Jolin Watts. Union, R J Boyd, .Il. P . .Ilvant. Laurens, S. Townsend. Newberry, J. H. Zimmerman, J. N. Bou­

chelle. Mt. Tryon Mission, L. Scarborough.

COLUMBlA DISTRICT.

S. W. Capers,P. E.

Colllmhia, Whitefoord Smith, Jno. A. Mood. Congaree Mission, W. Martin. Lexington, D. Derrick. Barnwell, P. G. Bowman, J. W. North. Graniteville Mission, S. M. Green. Columbia Circuit, John W. J. Harris. Winnsboro', S. Leard, 1. O . .Il. Connor. Lancaster, Thomas .l't1. Farrow. Camden, W. T. Capml. Darlington, C. S. 'Walker, D. W. Seale. Sumterville, E. L. King. Santee,.Il. fY. Walker. Wateree Mission, D. G. McDaniel, A. J.

Cauthen. St. Matthews Mission, Williamson Smith.

WJLMINGTON DISTRIC'r.

N. Talley, P. E. Wilmington, II . .fl. C. 'TValker, J. T. Munds. Smithville, G. W . .!'v1oore, J. P. Hughes. Cape Fear Mission, Hugh F. Porter. Conwayboru', James H. Chandler. Waccamaw, John.ll. Minick, A. L. Smith. Georgetown, .Il. M. Chrietzbetg. Sun tee Mission, W. Carson, A. Ervin. Black River Mission, it1. Eaddy, A. P.

Martin. Black River Circuit, J. ]1. Bradley, J.

Parker. Sam pit Mission, L .• il-!. Little. Marion, .Il .• M.cCorquodale, O. A. Chrietz­

berg. Bladen, D. J. Simmons, R. Washburn.

FAYETTEVILLE DISTRICT.

W. Barringel', P. !E. Fayetteville, C. H. Pritchard. Fayetteville Cir., S. Jones, W. B. Currie. Bennettsville, John .J1.. Porter. Society Hill Mission, C. McLeod. Cheraw, John '1'. Wightman. Cheraw Mission, W. J. Jackson. Chesterfielrl, .fl. Nettles. Wadesboro', T. R. Walsh, D. D. Byars. Rockingham, ,]\1 . .Il. McKzbben. Albemarle, W. S Haltom. Montgomery, P. W. McDaniel. Deep River, Thomas W. Postell.

LINCOLNTON DISTRICT.

.Il. ]1. Foster, P. E. Charlotte, Julius J. Fleming. Charlotte Circuit, John H. Robinson, E.

J. Pennington. Pleasant Grove, W. C. Patterson. Concord, W. L. Pegues.

248 East Texas Conference, 1849.

Lincolnton, C. ""'lurchison. Spartanb.lI'g, B .. H. Durant. Spartanburg Circuit, S. D. Laney, E. J.

Meynal'die. Rutherford, John R. Pickett, A. M. Rush. Catawba, W. C. Clarke. Shelby, R. P. Franks. Morganton, P. R. Hoyle. McDowell, J. L. Shuford. Lenoir, Daniel ilfcDonald.

.!1. 1Jf. Shipp, Professor in North Caro lin a University.

Morgan C. Turrentine, transferred to Georgia Conference.

Z. W. Barnes, Hugh E. Ogburn, C . .9.. Crowell, permitted to rest, from ill health.

Quest. 18. When and where shall our next Conference be held?

At Wadesboro', North Carolina.

14.-EAST TEXAS CONFERENCE, November 14, 1849.

Quest. 1. Who are admitted on trial? William P. Sanson, H. B. Hamilton,

Calvin Askins, Neil Brown, Sam'l Lynch.

Ql1est. 2. Who remain on trial? William Jameson, Samuel C. Box, E.

S. Powell, Thomas L. Burnes, Samuel G. Culver, James G. Hardin.

Quest. 3. Who are admitted into full connexion?

Felix G. Fawcett, John B. Tullis.

Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons? Joel H. Biggs, E. P. Chisholm, M. F.

Cole, Hichard [{ansorn, F. G. Fawcett,*' J. B. Tullis.')\<

Quest. 5. Who have been elected and ordained Elders this 'Pear?

Andrew Davis.

Quest. 6. Who have located this year? Richard Ransom, Arthur Davis, Joab

H. Biggs. Quest. 7. JVhoarethesupernumeraries? Enoch P. Chisholm. Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated

preachers'? None. QUCGt. 9. Who have been expelled this

'lear?

Quest. 13. What numbers are in so­ciety'?

San Augustine District. Trinity District. Whites. Col. Whites. Col.

Sa!) Augus- Kingsboro' 116 I tine 243 Dallas 279

Nacogdo- Grayson 26 2 ches 243 55 Greenville 116 3

Crockett 150 Smith Mis. 310 12 Jasper 214 15 Cherokee 250 10 Trinity 155 25 Palestine 251 11 Liberty 57 28 Sabine Mis. Beaumont 50 Angelina 94 1 1348 39 Red Land Clarksville District. Af. Mission 80 Clark:-;ville 280 28

1206 204 Bo~ton 98 12 Jefferson 166 29

Ma?·sh.'ZlJ, District. Mt. Pleasant 157 14 Marshall 707 29 Ft. Sherman 203 20 Harrison Bonham 140 Af. Mission 143 Paris 207 43

Shelbyville 169 Upshur 203 2 Henderson 305 30 Panola 158 10 1454 48

1339 212

RECAPITULATION.

San Augm;line District Man;.hall District Trinity District ClarkwilJe Disttict Local preachers

Whites. 1206 '1339 1348 1454

85

Colored. 204 212 39 48

None. Total this year 5432 4742

503 491

Quest. 10. Who have been withdrawn? Total last year

None. Increase 690 12

Quef:t. 11. Were the characters of all (he preachers exa?nined?

This was strictly attended to.

Quest. ]2. Who has died this year'! None.

.. Ordained this year.

Quest. 14. What amounts are necessary for the superannuated preachers, and the 'widows and orphans, '.fc. '.fc.?

$2071 43.

Quest. 15. What has been collected 011 the foregoing accounts, anti how applied 'I

Seventeen dollars and sixty-one cents .

Texas Conference, 1849. 249

To D. Poe's children, $2 60 To L. Fowler's children and widow, 5 00 To ,V. G. Booker's widow, 5 00 To H. B. Kelsey's widow, 5 00

$17 60 Quest. 16. What has been contributed

for the support of missions; what jor Sunday school books, and for American Bible Society?

$414 00 for missions. Quest. 17. Where are the preachers sta­

tioned this year?

SAN AUGUSTINE DISTRICT. Samuel A. Williams, P. E. San Augustine, William K Wilson. Panola, H. B. Hamilton. Jasper, James T. P. Irvine. Shelbyville, Preston W. Hobbs. Beaumont, to be supplied.

. MARSHALL DISTRICT. Aiken N. Ross, P. E. Marshall, John C. Woolam, one to be

supplied. Harrison County African Mission, W m.

Jameson. Mount Pleasant, Samuel Lynch. Henderson, Andrew S. Harris. Fort Sherman, Thomas L. Burnes. Jefferson, Robert Crawford. Upshur, Robert B. Wells.

TRINITY DISTRICT. John W. Fields, P. E. Kingsborough, James G. Hardin, E. P.

Chisltolm, SuP'y. Dallas, Andrew Cumming. Ch'erokee, Neil Brown. Palestine, Michael F. Cole. Saline Mission, to be supplied.

CLARKSVILLE DISTRICT. William C. Lewis, P. E. Clarksville, Napoleon W. Burkes. Boston, to be supplied. Grayson, to be supplied. Bonham, Felix G. Fawcett. Paris, Francis .111. Stovall. Greenville, Samuel G. Culver.

NACOGDOCHES DISTRICT. Isaac M. Williams, P. E. Nacogdoches Circuit, J. B. Tullis, one to

be supplied . AngeJina Mission, Calvin Askins. Woodville, E. S. Powell. Liberty, Jefferson Shoole. Livingston, William P. Sansom. Crockett, C. Box.

Orcenith Fisher transferred to Texas Conference.

Quest. 18. Where and when shall OUT

next Conference be 11 eld ? At Palestine, Anderson County, East

Texas.

15.-TEXAS CONFERENCE, December 6, 1849.

Quest. 1. Who are admitted on trial? Cyrus Campbell, William F. Hubid,

Joshua Shapard, George W. Rabb, Wm. G. Nelms, Edward Snide}', Dioclesian Wright.

Quest.2. Who remain on trial? Charles F. Rottenstein, F. Reynolds, J.

M. Follansby, Thomas F. Cook, Reuben Long, Charles Grote, James H. Addison.

Quest. 3. Who are admitted into full connexion ?

Isaac G. John, Bryan L. Peel.

Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons'? Alfred B. F. Kerr, Robert H. Belvin,

Oscar M. Addison, George Tittle, Isaac G. John,*' B. L. Peel.*'

• Ordained this year.

Quest. 5. Who hatle been elected ana ordained Elders?

James W. Loyd, William S. Hamilton, William Young.

Quest. 6. Who have located this year? David Thompson, L. D. Bragg, O.

Fisher. Quest. 7. JiVho are the supernumeraries? M. R. T. Outlaw. Quest. 8. Who are the superannuatea

or worn out preachers? John Haynie, Jesse Hord. Quest. 9. Who have been expelled tlds

year? None. Quest. 10. Who have withdrawn frou.

the connexion '? None .

250 Texas, Conference, 1849.

Quest. 11. Were the characters of all the preachers exarnined'l

This was strictly atte:nded to.

Quest. 12. Who have died this year 'I None.

Quest. 13. What nurnbers are in society this yearl

Galveston District. Austin District. Whites. Col. Whites. Col.

Galveston 67 b7 Austin and Galvestol\ Bastrop 247 30 German Nashville 244 25 Mission 93 RiG!b,land 152 9

Houston 103 114 Red Ooak Houston Ger. Mission 75

Mission 30 Franklin 186 13 Brazoria 60 65 -..,-

Richmond 131 115 904 77 San Jacinto San Antonio District.

Mission 71 7 San Antonio 20 15 Seguin 232 8

555 361 Gonzales 88 26 Ruiersville District. Goliad 15 5

Rutersville 289 24 Corp. Christi 6 Washington 392 112 Egypt ]72 58 Montgomery 141 36 Victoria 109 61 Huntsville 193 2(} Victoria Ger. L('on Mis. 157 36 Mission 46 La Grange Washington Ger. Mis. Col. Mission 120

1172 228 688 293

RECAPITULATION.

Whites. Colored. Galveston District 551 361 Rutersville District 1172 228 Austin District 904 77 San Antonio District 688 293 Local Preachers 59

Total this year 3374 959 Total last year 2789 791

Increase 585 16B

Quest. 14. What arnounts are neces­sary for the superannuated preachers, and the widows and orphans of preach­ers, and io make up the diificiendes of thD.';e who have not r'eceived their regular allowance on the circuits, and for the sup­port of the Bishops?

$1474 47.

Quest. 15. What has been collected on the foregoing accounts, and how has it been applied 'I

Conference collections, Draft on Bishop Soule,

$147 50 75 00

$222 50

Applied thl1s: To the Bishops, To William S. Hamilton, To M. R. T. Outlaw, To J. Haynie,

75 O( 75 00 50 00 22 50

$222 60 Q,¥st. 16. Wha.t has been contributed

for the support of mis:>-iol1s; what for Sun­day School books, tracts, and American Bible Society?

For missions, Sunday school books, American Bible Society,

$926 05 136 79 86 00*

$1148 84

Quest. 17. Where are the preachers stationed this year '1

GALVESTON DISTRICT. James M. Wesson, P. E. Galveston Station, Homer S. Thrall. Galveston German Mission, Charles F.

Rottenstein. Honston Station, John W. Philips, C.

Richardson. Houston German Mission, to be supplied. Brazoria, Wm. S. Hamilton, Geo. Tittle. San Jacinto, to be supplied. Richmond, James G. Johnson, W. F.

Hubert. Matagorda, to be supplied.

RUTERSVILLE DISTRICT. Robert .!llexandel·, P. E. Rutersville Circuit, to be snpplied. La Grange Germ'n Mission, to be snpplied, Washington and Rock Island, Isaac G.

John. Montgomery, Bryant L. Peel, Joshua

Shapard. Huntsville, Oscar M. Addison, George W.

Rabb. Mill Creek Mission, Cyrus Campbell.

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT. Mordecai Yell, P. E. Springfield Circuit, Fabricius Reynolds. Wheelock, Reuben Long. Nashville, John lV, De Vilbiss. Red Oak Mission, D. F. Wright, William

G. Nelms. Leon Mission, James H. Addison, M. R.

T. Outlaw, S~lp'y.

f< This is an imperfect report.

Louisiana Conference, 1849. 251

SAN ANTONIO DISTRICT. Josiah W. Whipple, P. E. Austin Station, James M. Follansbee. Bastrop Circuit, James E. Ferguson. Seguin and San Antonio, Wm. young. Seguin German Mission, Hy. P. Young. San Antonio Circuit, Pleasant M. Yell. Georgetown Mission, James W. Lloyd. Fredericksburg Ger. Mission, Ed. Snyder. Brownsville, Nehemiah H Cravens.

VICTORIA DISTRICT. Daniel Carl, P. E.

Victoria, David L. Bell. Victoria German Mission, Charles Grole. Corpus Christi, to be supplied. Gonzales, John C. Kolbe. Texanna, Thomas P. Cook. Columbus, George Rottenstein.

Alfred B. F. Kerr, Agent for Ruters. ville College.

Quest. 18. "Where and when shall the next Conference be held '1

At Richmond, Fort Bend county,Texas.

16.-LOUISIANA CONFERENCE, December 26,1849.

Quest. 1. What preachers are admitted on trial?

Linus Parker, John Paule, Elisha Wal-ler, Henderson A. Morse.

Quest. 2. Who remain on trial? Henry Mixer.

Quest. 3. Who are admitted into full con· nexion?

James L. Wright.

Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons? Alexander E. Goodwyn, ehas. J. Hal-

burg, Zachariah Thompson, ordained last year j and James L. Wright ordained this year.

Quest. 5. rrho have been elected and or­dained Elders this year?

Thos. J. Lacy, Holland N. McTyeire, Reynolds Trippett.

Quest. 6. Who have located this year? David O. Shattuck, Alexander Suther·

land, John J. Weems. Quest. 7. Who are the Supernumeraries? Moses Davis, Uriah Whatley. Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated or

'Worn out preachers? Byron 'Bemon, Thomas Samford, Wen.

Stephenson, William H. Turnley. Quest. 9. IVho have been expelled from

the connexion this year? None. Quest. 10. Who have withdrawnfromthe

conhexion this year? None. Quest. 11. Are all the Preachers blame.

less in life and conversation? Their names were called, and their cha­

racters examined and passed one by one. Quest. 12. Who have died this year?

WILLJA.M To STRICK, a native of Prussia, who came over to this country in 1842, and not long after was converted under the ministry of the lamented Bremer, our first Gennan mis­sionary in the city of New Orleans. He was licensed to preach in the year 1847, and after exercising his gifls a year as a local preacher, was admitted on trial in the Louisiana Con­ference, and appointed to the second German mission in New Orleans. His labors were faithful and successful, and he was returned to the same charge for 1849, but in the month of' March he was attacked with cholera and died after three days illness, his last words being, "For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." He was young, gifted, and eminently pious and diligent-a thorough Christian, a faithful pastor, an exemplary man and minister, pro­mising mnch to the Church of Christ; but in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and at the very opening of his ministry, it 1l.as pleased God to release him from the toils of earth, and take him to his rest in heaven.

Quest. 13. What numbers are in society? Whites. Col. Whites. Col. La Hache 8 La Fourche 29 74

New Orleans Disflrict. Whites. Col. - - Colored Mis. 1 525 Whites. Col. First German 590 849 Houma 15 95

Poydras st. 298 Mission 87 Bat{}1/, Rouge District. Preston's Steele chap. 120 130 Second Ger. Baton Rouge 101 63 Col. Mission 2 260 Moreau st. 21:1 150 Mission 29 Plaquemine Baton Rouge Algiers 20 Wesley col. eh. 569 and Don. 39 41 Col. Mission 30

252 Louisiana Conference, 1849.

Whites. Col. W. B. Rouge 15 62

'}02 1150 Opelousas District.

Opelollsas 51 13 New Town

& Frankhn 67 50 Paltersonv']e 40 172 Alexandria 112 114 Haw Creek 112 36 Vermillion 91 15 Chicot 72 78 Opelousas Col. Mission

Alexandria Col. Mission

100

253

545 831 Shreveport District.

Shreveport 5L 18 Caddo 259 46 Mansfield 143 30 Nachitoches347 40 Red River 159 55 Mind.&Boz.248 82

1207 271

Monroe District. Whites. Col.

Monroe cir. 18L 15 Farm. and Bastrop 26L

Darbonne 342 99 Columbia 220 25 Bouetf Prai. 178 123 Bouetf River 25 10 Monroe Col.

Mission 205

1207 477 Vidalia District.

Vidalia 20 125 Tensas 131 38 Richmond 68 26 Lake Provi-dence 30

Monticello 103 24 Trinity 154 6 Tensas Col. Mission

Madison mi. Concordia Col Mission

91 317

200

506 827 RECAPITULATION.

New Orleans District Baton Rouge District Opelousas District Monroe District Shreveport District Vidalia District

Local Preachers

Total Total last year

Increase

·Whites. 590 202 545

1207 1207 506

4257 83

4340 4765

Decrease 425

Colored. 8q9

1150 831 477 271 827

44Q5

4405 4016

389

Quest. 14. What amounts are necessary for the superannuated preachers and the widows and orphans of preachers, and to make up the deficiencies of those who have not received their regular allowances on the circuits?

The Stewards report the amount ne­cessary for these objects to be two tho\)­sand three hundred and seventeen dollars.

Quest. 15. What has been collected on the foregoing accounts, and how has it been applied?

The Conference collections amount to no more than one hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty-five cents j and we have received one hundred dollars from the office of the Nashville Christian Ad­vocate j which has been applied as follows:

To the Bishops one hundred and seven·

ty-five dollars j to superannuated preachers twenty·six dollars and ninety cents j to widows and orphans eleven dollars and thirty-five cents.

Quest. 16. What has been contributed for the support of missions; what for Sun­day school books: and what to aid the .!1me­rican Bible Society and its auxiliaries?

For the support of missions, two thou­sand eight hundred and sixty-eight dol­lars j for Sunday school books, five hun­dred and four dollars; and to aid the American Bible Society twenty.six dollars.

Quest. 17. Where are the preachers sta­tioned this year?

NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT. John C. Keener, P. E. Poydras Street, John C. Keener. \Vesley & Soule Chapels, David Kinnear. E. Steele Chapel, Holland N. McTyeire. Moreau Street, William R. Gober.

t First German Mission, John M. Hofer. Second German Mission, John Poule.

Algiers, Zachariah Thompson. BA TON ROUGE DISTRICT.

William H. Crenshaw, P. E.

{ BRton Rouge, John W. Harmon. Colored Mission, (to be supplied.)

West Baton Rouge, Samuel Hawes. Plaquemine and Donaldsonville, Robert J.

Harp.

{Lafourche, William J. Ferguson. Colored Mission, Lewis .11. Reed.

Houma, Henderson A. Morse. Preston's Colored Mission, John Pipes.

Richard H~ Rivers and Almarin G. Miller are appointed to Centenary College.

OPELOUSAS DISTRICT. Richard Deering, P. E.

{Opelousas, Calvin .11. Frazee. Colored Mission.

Vermillion, Reynolds Trippett New Town and Franklin, P. M. Goodwyn. Pattersonville, Frederick P. Nixon. Chicot, Dabney F. Le~vis.

{Alexandria, Stephen J. Davies. Colored Mission, Cyprian Gridley.

Haw Creek Mission, (to be supplied.) Ca1casieu Mission.

SHREVEPORT DISTRICT. William E. Doty, P. E. Shreveport, Robert H. Read. Caddo, Henry .I1very.

Georgia Conference, 1850. 253

Mansfield, John Powell. Natchitoches, Daniel S. Watkins. Red River, William .fl. Smith. Minden, Richmond Randle. Bozier, Joel Saunders.

MONROE DISTRICT. John N. II/mill, P. E. Monroe Circuit and Colored Mission, John

B. Eddins, Elisha Waller. Jackson, Thoma3 J. Lacy. Bastrop, Alexander E. Goodwyn. Farmersville, James L. ·Wright. Darbonne, Ri~ha1"d M. Crowson, Uriah

Whatley, Sup'y. Columbia, Moses Davis, Sup'y. Boueff' Prairie, Philip II. Diffenwol'th.

VIDALIA DISTRICT.

Samuel W. Spear, P. E.

{Vidalia, Henry Mixer. Colored Mission.

Trinity, (to be supplied.)

{ Tensas, Jesse J1. Guice. Waterproof, Wilson W. Jenkins.

Richmond, nnd Madison Colored Mission.

{Lake Providence, Linus Parker. Monticello, Charles J. Halbury.

Quest. 18. Where ar.d when shall our next Conference be held?

At New Orleans; the time to be fixed by the Bishops at their meeting in May next.

17.-GEORGIA CONFERENCE, January 9-15, 1850.

Quest. 1. What preachers are admitted on trial?

William H. C. Cone, James M. Dickey, \Villiam N. Fambrough, William P. Har­rison, Richard 1. Harwell, Thomas H. Jordan, Jesse R. Littlejohn, Whitman C. McGllff'y, 'Villiam T. Norman, Harwell H. Parks, John E. Sentell, Thomas R. Stewart, John Strickland.

Quest. 2. Who remain on trial? James M. Austin, Alexander Avrett,

Thomas A. Bell, John M. Bright, Josiah H. Clark, Michael A. Cl<'mtz, William R. Foote, Albert Gray, Theophilus S. Harwell, Jos. S. Key, William E. Lucy, William B. McHan, Daniel J. Myrick, John C. Simmons, Jr., Alfred B. Smith, Benjamin A. Smith, Milton C. Smith, Thomas C. Stanley, Charles W. Thomas, Wm. H. Thomas, Alexander M. Wynn.

Quest. 3. Who are admitted into full connexion?

Robert A. Connor, Lewis J. Davies, James L. Gibson, Jas. W. Hinton, Smith C. Quillian, J. Blakely Smith, Edward L. Stevens, John W. Twitty.

Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons? Rob't A. Connor, Lewis J. Davies, Jas.

L. Gibson, James W. Hinton, Smith C. Quillian, J. Blakely Smith, Edward L. Stevens, John W. Twitty, ordained this year; and Joseph D. Adams, John ·W. B. Allen, Samuel J. Bellab, 'rhos. F. Pierce, William A. Simmons, Eustace Speer, Davidson 'Williamson, previously in orders.

Quest. 5. Who hav-e been elected and orda.ined Elders this year?

Nathaniel N. Allen, John M. Bonnell, Wyatt Brooks, Henry Cranford, Joseph H. Echols, James H. Ewing, John T. Flanders, Charles A. Fulwood, Adolphus J. Orr, Wiley G. Parks, James L. Pierce, James Quillian, John B. C. Quillian, Free­man F. Reynolds, Osborne L. Smith, J. Bradford Smith, Thomas H. Whitby, Ar­minius Wright.

Quest. 6. Who have located this year 'I Francis W. Baggerly, John C. Carter,

Henry H. McQueen, Stephen Shell.

Quest. 7. Who are the supernumeraries? There are none.

QueL'!t. 8. JV}w are the superannuated or worn out preachers?

Lewis Myers, Wiley Warwick, Wm. Arnold, John B. Chappell, Whitman C. Hill, Myles Greene, James Hunter, James B. Turner, Eli Bennett, J. J. M. Mapp, Abraham Pennington, Allen Turner, Jas. Dunwody.

Quest. 9. Who have been expelled from the connexion this year?

None. Quest. 10. Who have withdrawn from

the connexion this year? None. Quest. 11. Were all the preachers blame­

less in life and conversation? Theil' names were called, and their cha­

racters passed, one by one.

254 Georgia Conference, 1850.

Quest. 12. Who have died this year?

REV. ROBERT L. EDWARDS commenced travelling as Methodist preacher in the year 1807 and continued laboring in that capacity until the close of the year 1811, when, having ma.rried' and the prevailing sentiments of the ministry and the church in those days being that ~ minister greatly impeded his usefulness when he entered into the matrimonial connexion, he located. In 1815, however, he re-entered the Conference, and continued laboring in various circuits, mostly in the western part of South Carolina, and eastern part of GeoJ'gia until 1830 when he took a superannuated relation to the Conference. The circuits which, during thes~ ye~rs and the nine following, when he was at different times supernumerary and effective, enjoyed his ministry to the fullest extent, were Kt.'ewee, Little River, Broad River, Saluda, and Abbeville Circuits. In 1839 he entered upon a superannuated relation again, in which he continued without interruption until his death. It was during this time that he engaged in business, and, as is often the case with ministers of the Gospel entering into secular engage­ments, did not succeed well, and contracted a good deal of prejudice against him in certain places. It is, however, a remarkable fact, that when this prejudice was at its height, brother Edwards commenced a protracted meeting in the very neighborhood where it was the stron~est, and God blessing his labors, all prejudice was entirely diSSipated, and one of the most gracious revivals ensued that had ever been witnessed in that section of the cou'htry.

As a preacher of the Gospel, brother Edwards was one of the most remarkable men that ever labored in the southern Statf's. His preaching abilities were good; especially did he excel in the talent for extemporaneous speaking. Upon the spur of the moment he could de­liver a discourse, marked not only with good sense and fervency, but with system of thought and power upon the hearers. He was distinguished for his skill in planning and conducting those meetings in which the ('onversion of souls is the especial object; nor was he ever satis­fied with any efforts which did not result in this end. He was an indefatigable laborer in the ministry, always coming up with a host of help in himself when others began to weary in strength or flag in spirits. At camp-meetings in the intervals of stated preaching, he would preach from tent to tent, very often with powerful and blessed effect. As his life was useful, so his death was peaceful and triumphant. His memory is embalmed with the most sacred associations in the hearts of hundreds in these lands. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."

MATTHEW RAIFORD, the eldest son of Maurice and Asenath Raiford, was born July the 12th, 1789, in Jefferson county, Georgia. His parents being Methodists, in the proper sense of that term, so trained him from infancy that under the grace of God he was strictly moral from his earliest years. He often said that the precise time when the work of regeneration passed upon his heart was unknown to him. But the comfortable assurance of this state of grace he had and enjoyed at or before the tenth year of his age. As might be expected of one thus early devoted to God, he was ever respectful and obedient to his parents. He joined the Church about the eleventh year of his age. He received license to exhort on the 28th of March, 1818, from Joseph Tarpley, P. E. and on the 6th of December following, he was licensed to preach at Bethany chu,rch, Jefferson couI;lty, Georgia, and recommended to the en­suing Annual Conference, received and appointed to the Orangeburg Circuit. He afterwards travelled the Big Ocmulgee, Black Swamp, Con~aree Circuits, &c. In f:lJe year 1825 he located. The years 1826 and 1827 he labored with Isaac Smith and W. C. Hill, at the Mis­sionary Station at Fort Mitchell, Alabama, with pleasure to himself and profit to others. He filled various appointments at the hands of the Conference down to the year 1842. In that year he received his last appointment to Covington, where he labored acceptably and profit a-1;>ly. Through all his life he manifested the spirit of a true Christian minister; and though not able to labor actively for several years before his death, he lost none of his zral for God and his Church. He was remarkable for the prompt and faithful discharge of all the duties of a minister of the Gospel. He believed it his duty to .attend regularly the sessions of his Conference, and hence, rocj.e from Fort Mitchell, Alabama, to Wilmington, on horseback, once, rather than fail of duty in this regard. He had a strong sympathy for suffering huma­nity, and for its relief daily prayed and labored. He was sorely afflicted for several years before his death. He often spok~ of death with calmness and Christian confidence. He retained his mind to the last. He died at the house of Dr. James Thweatt, in Monroe county, Georgia, on the 16th of April, 1849, in the full assurance of hope. Faithful on earth, we ex­pect to greet him among the faithful in heaven.

Quest. 13. What numbers are in society? Whites. Col. Whites. Col. Augusta 367 Wilkes 263 135

Augusta District. Whites. Col. Augusta Col. Warrenton 562 318 Whites. Col. Jacksonbo' 405 40 charge 699 Sparta 447

Savannah: Schriven mis. 466 Columbia 298 20 Hancockmi. 670 Wesleych.405 Waynesbo' 792 54 Columbia --Andreweh. 389 Burke mis. 486 mission 156 4499 4344 Chatham 65 70 Louisville 333 56 Lincolnton 280 75 Athens District.

Springfield 215 122 Jefferson mi. 480 Washington 67 108 Athens 309

Georgia Conference, 1850. 255

Whites. Col. Athens Col. charge

Lexington 384 Oglethorpe

205

mission 304 Watkinsv'le 1017 247 Factory mis. 80 3 Elberton 730 219 Carnesville 875 188 Greensboro' 643 131 Greensboro'

Whites. Col. Decatur 1207 218 Newnan 1267 355 Franklin 374 111 Carrollton 765 65 Fayetteville 420 69

7791 2109 Macon District.

Macon 325 Macon Col. charge 639

mission 235 Vineville 135 Madison 302 150 Milledgev'le 172 107 Kingston mi. 354 Eatonton 510 609 Covington 954 361 Clinton 15H 194 Oxford 170 40 Monticello 362 488 Monroe 550 116 Forsyth 581 276 Madison c'ty Cullodel'l 713 237 mission 67 14 Fort Valley 561 166

-- -- Fort Valley 6081 2567 mission 338

497 311 Gainesville District. Perry Gainesville 542 63 Ockmulgee La wrence- mission 304 ville 783 72

66 96

Clarksville 758 Dahlonega 1743 Clayton mi. 147 31 Murphy mi. 476 21 Hi wa~see" 614 Blairsville

4014 3669 Columbus District.

Columbus 570 Columbus Col. charge 318

Talbotton 158 136 mission 435 11 Talbot ct. 544 208

Ellijay mi. 652 Thomaston 639 257 Hamilton 748 370

Whites. Colored. Jeffersonville District Columbus District

Local Preachers

Total this year Total last year

Increase this year

:!542 5826

43521 520

44041 44229

Decrease this year 188

724 2488

16847

16847 16625

22-2

Quest. 14. Hhatamounts are necessary for the superannuated preachers, and the widows and orphans of preachers, and to make up the deficiencies of those who have not obtained their regular allowance on their circuits?

$4988 00.

Quest. 15. What has been collected on the foregoing accounts; and how has it been applied?

Received as follows: Conference collection, Donations, From Relief Society, Surplus, Former balance,

$2133 26 204 50 200 00

12 00 162 15

6150 360 Muscogee 458 105 A pplied as follows: $2711 91

365 00 Marietta District. Marietta 175 57 Marietta ct. 123U 72 Cassville 246 68 Rome 105 40 Floyd 525 51 Oothcaloga 953 56 Springplace 699 73 Dade mis. 340 5 La Fayette 951 21 Summerville 757· 118 Van Wirt

mISSIOn 332 5

Lumpkin US III To Bishops, Stewart 508 114 To sup. preachers, widows, or Cuthbert and Ft. Gaines 502 253 phans & deficient preachers,

Starkville 339 70 Stationery, &c. Marion 423 72 Balance in hand, Lan ier 327 43 Americus 49:J 97 Chatahoochie

2332 25 8 81 5 85

$2711 91 mission 334

5826 2488 Jeffersonville DistTict.

Jeffersonv'le 297 150

Quest. 16. What has been collected for the support of Missions; what for Sunday School Books, and what to aid American Bible Society and its auxiliar1:es? Powder Sp'g

mission 305 20 Irwinton 243 36 Sandersville 550 200

For missions, $11,954 65 For Sunday school books, 1,047 52 For the Am. Bible Soc'y, &c. 2,074 00

6618 586 La Grange District.

La Grange 155 136 Greenville 913 400 Troup 709 239 Zebulon 740 227 Griffin 185 76 McDonough 547 58 Jackson 509 155

Telfair 270 41 Vienna 445 34 Reidsville 302 '73 Hinesville & Darien 212

Dublin mis. 97 EmanuelmL126 100

Quest. 17. Where are the preachers 90 8tationed this year?

AUGUSTA DISTRICT.

2542 724 RECAPITULATION.

Josiah Lewis, P. E. Savannah:

'Vesley Chapel, James E. Evans. Andrew Chapel, Charles .J1. Fulwood. Chatham, to be supplied.

Augusta District Athens District Gainesville District Marietta District La Grange District Macon District

Whites. 4499 6081 6150 6618 7791 4014

Colored. 4344 2567 360 586

2109 3669

Smithfield, William D. Bussey.

{Scriven, .J1dolphus J. Orr. Scriven Mission, Lewis J. Davies.

256 Georgia Oonference, 1850.

{

Waynesboro', James Jones, Thomas F. Pierce.

Burke Mission, Andrew J. Reynolds.

{Louisville, David Blaluck. Jefferson Mission, Alexander Avrett.

{Augusta, G. Jefferson Pearce. Colored Charge, J. Braijord Smith.

Columbia, John W. Knight. Lincolnton, John S. Dunn. Washington, William H. Evans, William

R. Foole. Warrenton, Freeman F. Reynolds, Josiah

H. Clarke.

{Sparta, Richard Lane. Hancock Mission, Alfred B. Smith.

ATHENS DISTRICT. Willia'n J. Parks, P. E.

{At hens, Eustace Speer. Colored Charge, James L. Pierce.

{Lexington, Henry P. Pitch/m'd. Oglethorpe Mission, Wm. H. C. ~?ne.

Watkinsville, Joseph D. Adams, WIlham B. Harrison.

Factory Mission, Edward L. Steve~s. Elbertoa, William A. Florence, WhItman

C. McGuffy. Carnesville, Henry Orawford. Greeniiboro', John O. Simmons, Sr., Thos.

R. Stewart. Madison Station, Oaleb If". Key. Madison Circuit, Anderson Ray. Kino-ston Mission, Nathaniel N. .flllen. Covington Metatiah H. Hebbard, Oharles _ ,

W, Thomas. Monroe, Albert Gray. Emory College, George F. Pierce, Alex.

Means, Osborn L. Smith, William J. Sasnett, John M. Bonnell.

Madison Female College, Jos. H. Echols.

GAINESVILLE DISTRICT. Jackson P. Turner, P. E. Gainesville, Harwell H. Parks. Lawrenceville John W. B. Allen. Clarksville, William B. Moss, Theophilus

S. Harwell. Dahlonega, George Bright, Jesse R. Lit-

tlejohn. ClaYlon Mission, to be supplied. Canton, William J. Cotler. Murphy Mission, William H. Thomas. State-Line Mission, James M. Austin. Blairsviile Mission, Michael A. Clontz. Ellijay Mission, James Quellian, Thomas

A. Bell.

MARIETTA DISTRICT. Alfred T. Ma'm, P. E. Marietta Station, Wiley G. Parks. Mariel.la Circuit, Sam'! J. Bellah, Rich'd

J. Harwell. Cassville, James H. Ewing. Rome Station, Joshua Knowles. Rome Circuit, Jones E. Cook, James M.

Dickey. OothcaloO'a, James L. Gibson. Spring Place, John Str!ckla~d: Dade Mission, Smith C. QllIlllan. La Fayette, Windsor P. Graham. Summerville William N. Fambrough. Van Wirt Mission, Francis Bird.

LAGRANGE DISTRICT. James B. Payne, P. E. Lagrange, Miller H. White. Troup, John W. Talley, Robert Stripling. Greenville, John W. Yarbrough, John E.

Seutell. Zehulon, Morgan Bellah, Wm. B. McHan. Griffin, James W. Hinton. McDonough, .fllfred Dorman. Jackson, Claiborne Trussell. Atlanta, Silas H. Cooper. Decatur, Noah Smith, .flndrew Nees~ .. Newnan, Willis D .• }~latthews, WIlham

E. Lucy. Franklin, John B. O. Quillian. . Carrollton Mission; Thomas H Whztby. Fayetteville, John Simmons.

MACON DISTRICT. John W. Glenn, P. E.

{Macon, Walter R. Branham. Colored Mission, William A. Simmons.

Vineville, John M .• Marshall. Milledgeville, Robert W. Bigham.

{Eatonton, Wesley P. Arnold. Putnam Mission, John T. Flanders.

Clinton, Charles R. Jewett. Monticello, Isaac B07'ing. Forsyth, John P. Duncan. Culloden, Sidney.l\1. Smith. Fort Valley, J. Blakely Smith. Perry, John H. Caldwell. Fort Valley Mission, Thomas. O. Oolern:an. Ockmulgee Mission Benjamm A. SmIth. Wesleyan Female 'College, IVilliam H.

Ellison, Edward H . .Jltlyers. CULUMBUS DISTRICT.

Samuel Anthony, P. E. Columbus, Lovick Pierce, Joseph S. Key.

.alabama Oonference, 1850. 257

Columbus Colored Charge, to be supplied. 'l'albotton Station, John P. Dickinson. Talbot Circuit, Edmund W. Reynolds. Thomaston, ltlcCarroll Peurifoy. Hamilton, John W. Twitty, Davidson

Williamson. Muscogee, D miel Kelsey. Lumpkin, ~Vzlliam JJ1. Crumley. Stewart, Joseph T. Turner. Cuthbert and} Anthony O. Bruner. Fort Gaines, John C. Simmons, Jr. Starks ville, Thomas H. Jordan. Marion, Young F. Tignor. Lanier, Oharles L. Hayes. Americus, John B. Wardlaw. Chatahoochie Mission, Wyatt Brooks. Collingsworth Institute, Jas. B. Jackson,

Superintendent.

JEFFERSONVILLE DISTRICT.

Sandersville, Milton C. Smith. Vienna, Juseph T. Smith. Telfair, John 1\1. Bright. Reidsville, Andrew J. Deavers. Hinesville, Daniel J. Myrick. Dublin Mission, to be supplied. Emanuel Mission, Alexander Gordon.

Joseph T. Talley, John W. Farmer and Morgan C. Tarrentine, without appoint­ments, at their own request. Jesse W. Carroll without appointment on account of family affiiction.

Russell Renneau, Sunday School Agent. Jesse Boring, Superintendent of Cali­

fornia Mission.

Alexander M. Wynn, Missionary to California.

Thomas C. Stanly, Chaplain United States Navy.

Frederick D. Lowry, P. E. Jeffersonville Circuit, .!1rminius

Robert A. Connor. Wright, Quest. 18. Where and when shall our

next Conference be held?

Irwinton, William T. Norman. Savannah, Georgia.

IS.-ALABAMA CONFERENCE, January 16-24, IS50.

Quest.1. What preachers are admitted on trial?

John C. L. Aikin, William B. Adams, John W. Baker, Erasmus J. Bankston, Lewis P. Golson, Robert H. Jones, Thos. W. Manning, William P. Miller, John Lockey, Joseph H. Scales, Robert W. Spence, Abijah Watson, Benjamin S. Williams-lao

Quest. 2. Who remain on trial? Andrew J. Coleman, Thos. P. Crymes,

William L. Kidd, William Monk, Robert S. Rabb, Robert Y. Rew, William M. Shockley, George W. Tucker, Lawrence M. Wilson-IO.

Quest. 3. Wlw are admitted into full connexion?

John C. L. Aikin, Allen M. Box, Ste­phen Olin Capers, Daniel Duncan, Thos. H. Foster, John C. Huccabee, Charles S. Hurt, Elijah B. Lockley, Ed. McMeans, William Peavy, Otis Saxton, Robert M. Saunders-12.

Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons? Joseph Phelan, Augustus H. Powell,

John Williamson, John D. Warrell, (who have travelled three years,) and those above who are admitted into full connexion.

Quest. 5. Who have been elected and ordained Elders this year?

Josiah Barker, Dugald Carmichael, Thomas J. Koger, Dennis B. Leyne, Christopher D. Oliver, John W. McCann, Jas. B. Rabb, Wesley R. Rounsa1Ul.1l-8.

Quest. 6. Who have located this year? Joseph B. F. Hill, Wm. Leigh, Peleg

R. McCreary, John M. Milner, John G. Motley, Charles H. E. Newton-6.

Quest.7. Who are the supernumeraries? John W. Broxson. Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated

or worn out preachers? Wm. B. Barnett, John Boswell, Thos.

Lynch, And. J. Hill, Nicholas P. Scales, Thomas H. P. Scales, William Wier-7.

Quest. 9. Who has been expelled from the connexion this year?

No one. Quest. 10. Who has withdrawn from the

connexion this year? No one. Quest. 11. Are all the preachers blame­

less in life and conversation? Their characters were examined and

passed, one by one.

258 Alabama Conference, 1850.

Quest. 12. Who has died this year? No one. Quest.l3. What numbers are in Society?

Mobile District. Whites. Col. Whites. Col. Mount Zion 327 13

Mobile: Pikeville mi. 414 25 Franklinst.357 570 Plymouth Toulman- col. mission 100

ville 119 ----St. Francis 4087 1400

street 250 270 Tuscaloosa District. New Wake- Tuscaloosa 165 238 field 155 222 B'k Warrior 423 184

Pascagoula 40-i 50 Havanna 572 225 Suggs ville 326 64 Erie 215 150 Monroeville 405 232 Greensboro' 125 290 Milton 191 8 Marion 98 125 Pensacola 39 21 Jones'Val. .581 54 Mt. Pleasant 139 50 Blount ct. & Mt. Pleasant Walker Col. mission 391 mlSSlOn 1086 43

---- Prairie Cr'k 2385 1878 col. mission 237

Demopolis District. ----Demopolis 71 119 3265 1546 Dayton 234 209 Talladega District. Spring Hill 229 100 Coosa 595 99 Lower Peach Randolph 534 31 Tree 430 258 Muscadine 68u 20

Gaston 678 121 Centre 420 23 Buckatonie 394 89 Cedar Bluff 762 35 Woodville 129 130 Lebanon 358 11 Cahaba 83 150 Ashville 610 23 Cahaba elr. 385 196 Jacksonville 505 124 Arcola and Talladega 450 198

Powell's cr'k col. mi. 308 4914 564

Flat Wo'ods Summerfield Dist1'ict. col. mission 170 Wetumpka 91 186

Post O.k col. Harpersville 549 161 mission 289 Prattville 124 54

---- Autauga 642 221 2633 2139 Centreville 582 76

Gainesville District. Summerfield Sumterville 170 133 and Selma 204 264 Macon 283 133 Centenary 357 250 Livingston 94 41 Greenville 466 48 De Kalb 650 150 Cedar Creek 486 120 Lauderdale 705 234 Autauga col. Belle Monte 202 153 mission 245 Prairie Hill 234 184 CedarCreek Warsaw 254 216 col. mission 439 Gainesville 42 40 ----Horse Hun- 35012064

ter col. mis. 261 Montgome1''!j Disn-ict. --- Montgomery202 315 2634 1545 Hayneville 157 230

Columbus District. Montgomery Columbus 205 176 circuit 402 326 Eutaw and Tuskegee 110 74 Springfield 75 160 Auburn 1208 659

Forkland ] 44 77 Crawford 681 228 Greene 310 85 Lafayette 131 70 Carrollton 866 413 Chambers 904 378 Fayetteville 821 183 Dadeville 493 93 New Lexing- Tallapoosa 496 54 ton 546 88 Lowndesbo-

Athens 349 80 rough 49 150

Whites. Col. Big Swamp col. mission 150

Catoma col. mis~ion 190

Euchee col. mission 120

4833 3037

EuJala District. Eufala 113 76 Glennville 241 160 Enon 670 300

Whites. Col. Choctahat-chie 627 106

Columbia 652 99 Marianna 83 144 Campbellton274 100 Walton mis. 188 48 Troy 876 236 Apalachicola 50 75 Geneva 505 65 Pea River mission 214 9

4493 1418 RECAPITULATION.

Mobile District Demopolis District Gainesville District Columbus District Tuscaloosa District Talladega District ::lummerfield District Montgomery District Eufala District

Local Preachers

Total this year Total last year

Whites. 2385 2633 2634 4087 3265 4914 3501 4833 4493

32745 445

33190 31997

Increa~e this year 1193

Colored. 1878 2139 1545 1400 1546 564

1819 3037 1418

15346

15346 1609[)

Decrease this year 749 Quest. 14. What amounts are necessary

:for the superannuated preachers, and the widows and orphans of preachers, and to make up the deficiencies of those wlw have not obtained their regular allowance on the cirl;uits, and for the Bishops?

Five thousand two hundred and seven­ty-three dollars and seventy-seven cents.

Quest. 15. What has been collected on the foregoing accounts, and how has it been applied'!

The usual conference collections amount to twelve hundred and eleven dollars and seventeen cents. To which has been added, by collections for the support of the Bishops, three hundred and seventy dollars and fifty-five cents j a surplus from Milton circuit of one dollar and fifty cents; a donation from William K. Norton of one dollar, and a dividend from the Nash­ville Advocate of one hundred dollars j making in all sixteen hundred and eighty­four dollars and twenty-two cents.

This has been applied as follows: To the Bishops three hundred and sixty-five dollars; to the superannuated preachers, five hundred and thirty-three dollars j to the widows and orphans of preachers, four hundred and sixty-three dollars; and.

.fllabama Conference, 1850. 259

to deficient preachers, three hundred and twenty-two dollars.

Quest. 16. What has been contributed for the support of missions J' what for Sunday school books, and what to aid the American Bible Society and its auxiliaries?

The amount contributed for missions, as reported to Conference, is *seven thou­sand four hundred and ninety.foUl dollars j ~or Sunday school books, the sum reported IS seven hundred and six dollars j no re­port of any collections by the preachers for the American Bible Society.

Quest. 17. Where are the preachers sta­tioned this year'?

MOBILE DISTRICT. Ebenezer Hearn, P. E. Mobile: Franklin st. Jefferson Hamilton.

St. Francis st. Wm. H. Milburn. Toulmanville cir., John G. Rush. German Mission, (10 be supplied.) New Wakefield, William Peavy. Pascagoula, John W. McCann. S'Jggsville, Thomas Burpo. Monroeville, .flnthony S. Dickinson, Hil-

liard J. Hunter. Milton, John ./J.. Spence. Pensacola, William K Norton. 5 Mount Pleasant, Wesley R. Rounsavall. l Colored Mission, James B. Rabb.

DEMOPOLIS DfSTRICT. Thomas W. Dorman, P. E. Demopolis, John D. Fisher. (Spring Hill, Willir}m M. Lovelady. I Arcola & Powell's Creek Colored Mis-

i sian, John Williamson, William M. . Shockley.

Flat Woods C.Jored Mission, (to be L supplied.)

{Dayton, Edward J. Hamill. Post Oak Col. Mis., .fl. J. Crawford.

Lower Peach Tree, .fllezander McBride. Buckaronie, 7'homas J. Campbell. Butler Mission, Thomas Killough. Gaslon, Thomas Y . .flrmstrong. Woodville, (to be supplied.) Cahawba, James L. Cotton. Cahawba Circuit, Daniel Duncan, Wm.

L. Kidd.

* This sum is exclusive of the collections at St. Francis street church, Mobile, which were to be taken up immediately after Con­ference, being delayed. for rile California Mis­sionaries, and probably will produce a thou­sand dollars more.

7

GAINESViLLE DISTRICT. William .fl. Smith, P. E. Gainesville & Sumterville, T. P. Holman. Belle Monte, Thomas S . .I1bernathy. Livingston, Josiah Barker. Lauderdale, Robert S. Finlp.y, S. Bernard

Newman. DeKalb, John W. Ellis, Jr. Macon, Christopher C. Callaway, Joseph

H. &ales.

{Prairie Hill, Theophilus Moody. Plymouth Colored Mission.

Warsaw, Elisha Callaway, Robert W. Spence.

COLUMBUS DISTRICT. Wm .• Murrah, P. E. Columbus, Philip P. Neely. Columbus Circuit, George Shaeffer, Thos.

W. Manning. Carrollton, Learner B. McDonald, Dennis

B. Leyne. Greene, Robert M. Saunders. Eutaw & Springfield, Thomas H. Foster. Forkland, Jurtius E. Newman. Fayetteville, Charles Strider. Athens, Charles S. H 11ft. Mount Zion, George W. Tucker. Pikeville Mission, (to be supplied.)

TUSCALOOSA DISTRICT. Greenberry Ga'rrett, P. E. Tuscaloosa, Thomas P. C. Shellman. Black Warrior) William Vaughan. New Lexington, Thomas G. Gilmore. Havanna, James M. Wells, (one to be

supplied.) Erie, Eugene V. Le Vert, A. J. Coleman. Greensboro', Christopher D. Oliver. Marion, Thomas Y. Ramsay. Jones' Valley, William J. Powers. Blount, Allen M. Box. Walker Mission, Robert S. Rabb. Prairie Creek Colored Mission, R. Y. Rew.

TALLADEGA DISTRICT. Jacob S. Hughes, P. E. Talladega, Joseph Phelan. Harpersville, John Foust, John Lockey. Randolph, William Monk. Arbacoochee, Jiferson Bond. Centre, John A. McCutcheon. Cedar Bluff, Erasmus T. Bankston. Lebanon William Rhodes. Ashville iVlission, Edward McMeans. Jacksonville, John W. Ellis, Sr.

260 Florida Conference, 1850.

SUMMERFIELD DISTRICT. Frederick G. Ferguson, P. E. Summerfield & Selma, Juhn W. Laney.

{ Centenary, ~lijah B. ~o~kley. Frog Level Colored MIssion.

{ Autauga, Garrett L. Patton. Colored Mission, Lewis P. Golson.

Pratteville, James Ji. Heard. Wetumpka, John D. Loftin. Coosa, Charles B. Eastman. Centreville, Joseph T. Curry. Greenville, Cornelius N. McLeod. Cedar Creek, John L. Sanders, Lawrence

M. Wilson. Archelaus H. .Alitchell is appointed to

the Centenary Institute.

MONTGOMERY DISTRICT. Oliver R. Blue, P. E.

{Montgomery, Joshua T. Heard. Catoma Colored Miss., Jas. W. Brown.

Montgomery Circuit, Otis Saxton, John C. Huccabee.

{

Hayneville, Robert R. Dickinson, Thos. P, Crymes.

Big Swamp Col. Miss. (to be supplied.) Tuskegee, Thomfls J. Koger. Auburn, Stephen F. Pilley. Macon, Elias W. Story, John D. Worrell. , Crawford, Jno. W. Starr, R. H. Jones. t Euchee Colored Miss., (to be supplied.)

Lafayette, Augustus B. Powell. Chambers, William B. Neall, Benjamin

S. Williams.

Dadeville, John T. Roper. Tallapoosa, Abijah Watson.

EUF ALA DISTRICT. Samuel Armstrong, P. E. Eufala, Clayton C. Gillespie.

{

Glennville, Walter H. McDaniel. Chattahoocbe Colored Mission, William

. B. Adams. Enon, George W. Carter, S. Olin Capers. Clayton, Harris Sterns. Columbia Mission, William P. Miller. Marianna, Dugald Carmichael. Campbellton, James A. Clement. 'froy, Joseph F. Roper. Apalachicola Mission, V. L. Hopkins. Geneva, John W. Bl'Oxon, Supernume-

rary, (and one to be supplied.) Pea River Mission, John W. Baker. White Water Mission, Zacheus Dowling.

Thomas O. Summers is one of the Editors of the Southern Christian Advo­cate, by appointment of the General Con· ference.

John C. L. Aiken is transferred to the Arkansas Conference.

Nehemiah A. Cravens is transferred to the Texas Conference.

Quest. 18. Where and 'lJ)hen shall our next Conference be held'!

At Auburn, Alabama j the time to be fixed by the Bishops at their meeting in May next.

19.-FLORIDA CONFERENCE, February 6-10, 1850.

Quest. 1. What preachers are admitted on trial'!

Aaron W. Harris, William C. Braddy, John W. Carlton, James R. Conner­Anderson Peeler, re·admitted-5.

Quest. 2. Who remain on trial'? Thomas N. Gardner, James H. M.

Gardner, John M. Hendry, O. B. Stanly, Jesse M. Valentine-5.

Quest. 3. Who are adrnitted into fUll connexion?

William M. Kennedy, Ro. S. Tqcker, John P. Richardson-3.

Quest. 4. Who are the Deacons? John P. Hichardson, ordained j Wm.

M. Kennedy, Rpbert S. Tucker, elected i Nelson Conner, Leroy G. Lesley. Thos.

Taylor, Samuel Woodberry, ordained last year.

Quest. 5. Who have been elected and ordained Elders this year '1 .

Joseph J. Sealy, Franklin Stewart, elected.

Quest. 6. Who have located this year? James Hal'ris, John W. Mills, George

W. Fag g, Augustus D. Russelt, Moses C. Smith-5.

Que~t. 7. Jt'ho are the supernumeraries? None. Quest. 8. Who are the superannuated

preachers '! Alexander Martin. Quest. 9. Who have been expelledjrom

the conne.non this, year'! None.

Florida Conference, 1850. 261

Quest. 10. Who have withdrawn from the connexion this year?

None.

Quest. 11. Are all the preachers blame­less in life and conversation?

Their names were called, and their cha­racters examined and passed, one by onl3.

Quest. 12. Who has died this year? None.

Quest. 13. What numbers are in society'? Tallahassee Distrid.

Whites. Col. Tallahassee 59 148 Wakulla 163 24 MOD ticello 526 402 Quincy 119 199 Gadsden 302 168 Thomasville 353 94 Bainbridge 137 50 Blakeley 103 203 AlQany 52 35

Whites. Col' Newnans-ville 181 95

Marion 220 113 Key West 80 28 Santa Fe mi. 75 Benton mi. 72 9 Hillsboro' mi. 52 54

1288 499 St. Ma1'y's District.

Warriormi. 215 15 Flint River

St. Mary's 42 44 Nassau 61 29

7 Black Creek 69 17 mission 170 Jacksonville 58 52 South Gads­

den mission 187 SpringCreek

mission 3 Leon mission

31 Brunswick 309 77 -Holmesville 209 9 Irwin 198 12 St. Augustine

93 130

mission 28 60 2389 1599

Newnansville District. Madison 223 103 Hamilton 192 72 COlumbia 193 25

Waresboro' mission

Satilla mis.

RECAPITULATION.

Tallahassee Dil'ltrict Newnansville District St. Mary's District Local preachers

Total this year Total last year

Whites. 2389 1288 1042

65

4784 4045

Increase this year 739

68 175

1042 475

Colored. 1599 499 475

2573 2636

Decrease this year 63

Quest. 14. What amounts are neces­sary for the superannuated preachers, and the widows and" orphans of preach­ers, and to make up the dejicieiLcies of those who have not obtained their regular allo'LOance on the circuits? For deficient preachers, widows and

orphans, $640 For Bishops' claims, 125

$765 Quest. 15. What has been collected on

the foregoirtg accounts, and how has it been appropiated'l

From circuits and stations, $~82 98 From Preachers' Aid Society, 104 90 From Presiding Elders, collected

for Bishops, 125 00

A ppropriated as follows: To the Bishops, Rev. John Slade, Rev. 'r'. W. Cooper, Rev. M. Bedell, Rev. E. L. T. Blake, Sister E. Wooddy,

$512 88

$125 00 32 ao 38 84

123 90 56 84

136 OQ

$512 88 Quest. 16. What amount has been con­

tributed for the support of missions; for Sunday schools, !fc. 'I For mission to China, $75 00 For home missions, 1,207 02 For Sunday Schools, 102 50

$1,384 52 Quest. 17. Where are the Preacher8

stationed this year'!

TALLAHASSEE DISTRICT. Ira L. Potter, P. E. Tallahassee, George W. Pratt. Wakulla, John Penny. Leon, Alexander Graham. Monticello, Geo. C. Clarke. Quincy, Franklin Stewart. Gadsden, James H. M. Gardner. South Gadsden, John W. Carlton. Thomasville, William Choice. Bainbridge, James M. N. LQtP~. Blakeley, Seaborn G. Childs. Albany, William C. Braddy. Little River Mission, Mahlon Bemll. Leon Mission to colored people, Owen B.

Stanley. Spring Creek Mission to colored" people,

Nelson Conner. "Principal Fem~le TIepartment metch.e.

Institute, Reuben H. Luckey. Agent for Fletcher,lnst., Peyton P_ Smitl4.

NEWNANSVILLE DISTRIOT. William W. GrijJin, P. E. Madison, Samuel Woodberry. Hamilton, Thomas N. Gardner, Thomas

Taylor. Columbia, Joseph J. Sealy. Newnansville, John M. Hendry. Marion, John C. Ley.

262 Florida Conference, 1850.

Key West, James Peeler. Benton Mission, to be supplied. Hillsboro' Missioo, James a. Conner. Santa Fee Mission, Aaron W. Harris. South Madison Mission, Ro. H. Howren.

ST. MARY'S DISTRICT. Simon P. Richardson, P. E. St. Mary's, Jesse M. Valentine. Brunswick, .flnderson Peeler, William M.

Kennedy. Holmesville, John P. Richardson. Irwin. John Slade. Talbott Mission, Philip Petly. Black Creek Mission, John L. Jerry.

Jacksonville and Mandarin Mission, Ed· win L. T. Blake.

Waresboro' Mission, Robert S. Tuckllf. Satilla Mission to colored people, John J.

Richards. Bethel Mission to colored people, Gideon

.fl. Mallette. Thomas W. Cooper, Leroy G. Lesley,

Joshua Carraway permitted to rest on ac· count of ill health.

Quest. 18. When and where shall our next Conference be held?

At Thomasville, Georgia. Time not given.

GENERAL RECAPITULATION.

Conferences

entucky, K S M L H I T V A M N M S E T L G A F

t. Louis, issouri,

ouisville, olston,

ndian Mission, ennessee, irginia, rkansas, empllis, ~rl~ qar?lina, ISSISS1PP1,

outh Carol ina. ast Texas, ,exas, 'ouisi,ana, eorgla, I.abama, lorida,

T T

otal this year, otal last year,

nC'rease, I D ecrease,

Whites. Colored. Indians.

23,581 5,325 13,272 1,012 11,193 l,a03 ]6,852 3,172 34,733 3,525

159 373 3,226 34,922 7,924 30,H38 5,891 1O,a32 1,819 28,352 6,954 21,lla 6,519 12;960 8,%5 34,206 41,617

5,:-147 503 3,315 959 4',257 4,405

43,5~1 16,847 32,745 15,a46

4,784 ~,573

------------~66 582 134,72'2 3,226 354,258 134,153 3,:i75 ---------

12.324 569 149

Total. n. Pro Sup'd. £0. Preach.

28,906 106 7 235 14,~84 64 2 145 12,496 57 5 87 20,024 66 5 181 38,258 87 8 324 3,758 41 39

42,R46 142 7 390 36,829 115 2 184 12,151 60 4 153 35,306 108 [) 370 27,632 70 12 145 21,615 70 8 182 75,823 124 12 271 5,R50 32 85 4,274 40 2 59 8,662 49 4 83

60,368 143 13 520 48,091 121 7 445

7,357 43 1 No report. --------------504,530 1,&38 104 3,898 491,786 1,4;6 108 3,O'J6

---- -12,744 62 872 4