MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 35
April 2d, 1870, under the preaching of Rev. James Morris Williams, and joined the same church on the first Sabbath in May, 1870. He remained in the Church eight years until September, 1878. He was then sent to Wilberforce University by Bishop Daniel A. Payne, where he remained four years. While there he was licensed to preach by Rev. J. M. Rose, of the Ohio Conference, and his first charge was given him by Bishop James A. Shorter, at Yellow Springs, Ohio. Leaving Wilberforce he was sent to Bishop H. M. Turner, at West Point, Mississippi, and was received in the North Mississippi Conference and ordained a Deacon by Bishop H. M. Turner February 14, 1882, and was appointed to Port Gibson Station and served one year. His next appointment was Jackson, Mississippi. From this charge he was transferred to the Virginia Conference and stationed at Martinsville, and remained two years. While in the Virginia Conference he was ordained Elder by Bishop D. A. Payne April 13, 1884, in Portsmouth, Va. In 1886 he was transferred by Bishop H. M. Turner to New Jersey Conference, and stationed at Bushtown.
Was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and is now in the thirty-seventh year of his age. He came to New Jersey in 1878 and joined the church at Bushtown, under Rev. Wm. Grimes. He was licensed to exhort at Yorktown charge by the Rev. Walter Thompson. He received local preacher's license at Cape May charge under the Rev. Wm. Watson. He was taken up in 1879 by Rev. Walter Thompson and was sent to Sorrel Mountain charge, where he only found eight members and the building in a very poor condition. In about two months he raised one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and sixty-eight cents. He then repaired the church and organized a Sunday-school numbering twenty-eight scholars. In 1880 he joined the annual conference at Princeton, N. J., under Bishop Brown, and was sent back to the same work. In 1881 he left the charge clear of debt, and was sent to Bound Brook charge, under Presiding Elder Rev. Redman Faucett. There he only found four members and no
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