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Subject: [RHEA-L] Methodist ministers received 17 >1840 Ray
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 20:50:50 EST

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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