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From: Margaret McCleskey <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] Methodist ministers received 17 >1840 Ray
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 20:30:02 -0600


May I know where you found this book? Many of my distant cousins were
Methodist ministers.

wrote:
>
> The list below, taken from "A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church,"
> Volume IV, by Dr. Nathan Bangs, includes: "all the preachers who were received
> into full connection in the Methodist Episcopal Church to the year 1840,
> including those who came from Europe and returned, as well as those who
> remained in this country." While the Methodist Episcopal Church was not
> organized until 1784, some of the preachers on this list entered the Methodist
> ministry long before that. Especially is this true of those who came from
> England, one of whom was "received" in the year 1762. Thus, the range of years
> shown above is from the year 1762 to the year 1840.
>
> Along with the names of those who were yet in the itinerant ministry in 1840,
> the year in with they were received is shown. With the name of each who was no
> longer in the itinerant ministry, the year is shown in which he was either
> located, died, withdrew, or was expelled.
>
> THE AUTHOR'S MULTIPLE ENTRIES OF IDENTICAL NAMES WITH IDENTICAL YEARS HAVE
> BEEN RETAINED. Perhaps most, if not all, such multiple entries of identical
> first names, last names and year-records may have resulted from the co-
> incidental fact that two, or even three, men with identical first and last
> names did actually serve concurrently in the M. E. ministry. -- Duane V. Maxey
>
> Ray, Anderson -- Received 1812, Located 1825
> Ray, Edwin -- Received 1822, Died 1831
> Ray, John -- Received 1792, Died 1837
> Ray, Thomas -- Received 1833
>
> Pat H.
>
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