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Application was then made to the Presbytery, in session at New York, April 25, 1804, praying them " to receive the Rev. David Austin into their body and appoint him to sup- ply the congregation of Elizabeth Town for three months. The following day the Presbytery took action as follows :
Resolved, That, whereas none of the petitioners are present and have not been seen in Presbytery since shortly after the petition was presented ; and Mr. Austin has not appeared to make any application to Presbytery : and there is no application to Presbytery from the Session, or Board of
* Sprague's Annals, IV. 263-74. Mc Vickar's IIobart, pp. 4, 9. Life of Dr. Alexander, pp. 218, 236, 249-9, 252. Murray's Notes, pp. 126-7. Memoir, prefixed to Kollock's Sermons, I. Records of Presb. of N. York.
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Trustees, or any regular body of the congregation of Elizabeth Town ; and Mr. Austin is by no means acknowledged by Presbytery as in good standing, or in any wise connected with this body :
They cannot comply with either of the requests ; but, on the contrary find themselves in duty bound to declare, agreeably to their declaration on a former occasion, that they cannot recommend Mr. Austin as one who ought to be employed by any of our Congregations as a minister of the gospel of Christ.
Disappointed with the result, his friends withdrew from the congregation, and obtained the use of the Methodist Church, for the Sabbath afternoons and evenings. Subscrip- tion papers, bearing date, "May 7th 1804," were circulated to raise £50, to finish the gallery of the Methodist church, "for the accommodation of the people disposed to attend the Labors of the Revª David Austin for the year ensuing." The amount was secured, mainly through the agency of Mr. Edward Price. Among the subscribers were Alderman Caleb Halsted, Jr., (for a long period Mayor of the Borough), Aaron Winans, Elihu Brittin, Stephen Burrows, Lewis Woodruff, Wm. Halsted, Thomas Price, Jr., David and Tenrub Price, Lewis Tucker, Nehemiah Tunis, Isaac Wood- ruff, Richardson Gray, Morris Hatfield, Wm. and Daniel Willis, Henry Freeman, James Bonnell, David S. Canfield, Moses Ogden, John Hendricks, Wm. W. Smith, and Thos. Eaton. None of them were office-bearers of the Church. One subscription only was for five dollars ; none of the others exceeded three and a half dollars. Very few men of sub- stance adhered to him.
Not content with the opportunities of the pulpit, frequent communications appeared, from May to November, 1804, in the columns of the N. Jersey Journal, on "the Millennial Empire," of which the following is a specimen :-
The Millennial Empire: or the Republican Cloud presenting the Blaze of National Day.
Brethren of Ecclesiastical Grade, -... What were we doing during the eight years of Washington's day? ... We advanced to a fellowship in our spiritual connections :- The rallying point was Elizabeth Town. A wind dislodged John Adams, and sent David Austin, a revolutionary name, into the sea. This formed a compound fracture upon the political
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and spiritual hopes of the existing labor. But, Sirs, if John Adams be irretrievable gone, not so with your file-leader. He rises from the sea, and returns from his walk upon the waters, unfurling the banners anew at Elizabeth Town. If the republican winds now blow let them blow, &c. David Austin,
Chaplain to the Republic, on the old spiritual line at Elizabeth Town. Eliz. Town, May 28, A. D. 1804 .*
It is strange, that, with such palpable evidence of his mental derangement, he should have been so long sustained by even his warmest admirers, for a single month. Yet he continued here. Encouraged by his friends, he addressed a letter to the Presbytery, dated at E. Town, Oct. 1, 1804; and, on the 3d, appeared personally before them at Morris- town, when he was heard at full length in relation to his being restored to the fellowship of the ministry. Thereupon it was
Resolved, That the said letter and the subsequent communication have given the Presbytery no further satisfaction respecting the state of Mr. Austin's mind, and that the said letter be put upon the files of the Pres- bytery.
Mr. Austin took his leave of the people that employed him, in a farewell discourse, Wednesday evening, Dec. 26, 1804, and presently returned to Connecticut. Finding the Con- gregational churches closed against him, and their Asso- ciations quite as reluctant to receive him into their fellow- ship as the Presbytery had been, and not brooking the re- straint, he sought the fellowship of the Baptists, and was im- mersed. But he soon discovered that his new associations were far from being congenial, and he returned practically to the Congregationalists.
His father-in-law, Dr. Lathrop, having died in 1807, and made ample provision for his daughter, Mr. Austin thence- forward resided at Norwich, where by the tender and judi- cious treatment of his excellent wife, he gradually recovered the tone of his mind, and embraced every opportunity to preach the gospel. He appeared in the Presbytery of New York, Ap. 29, 1808, with a certificate of commendation from
* N. Jersey Journal, Nos. 1074, 9, 50, 4, 9, 90, 4, 8.
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the New Haven East Association, and the censure was so far withdrawn as to allow of his being employed by the brethren in Connecticut.
It is probable, that, on this occasion, Mr. Austin spent several weeks among his old parishioners. It was announced, in the N. J. Journal, June 28, 1808, that the Rev. David Austin would deliver the oration at Rahway, on the ensuing 4th of July.
Again, at the meeting of the Presbytery, April 28, 1809, in this town,
The Rev. David Austin appeared and requested to be received into his former standing in Presbytery, and having solemnly acknowledged him- self wrong in withdrawing from this Presbytery; and renounced all claim to a spirit of inspiration or prophecy ; and promised to conduct himself in a peaceable and christian manner as a minister of Christ and a member of this body ; the Presbytery received him again as a member of their body, and Mr. Austin took his seat.
He was in attendance on the Presbytery, at Newark, June 7, 1809, and was appointed to preach at Morristown the next Sabbath. He attended, also, in October, 1809. He con- tinued to be reported as a member of the Presbytery of Jersey, for several years, when he was transferred to an Association in Connecticut, having been called to take charge of the Congregational church of Bozrah, originally the fourth society of Norwich, Ct., of which he was duly installed pastor, May 9, 1815. Continuing still to reside at Norwich, he re- tained the charge of this humble country parish, greatly honored by his people, until his death, at Norwich, Feb. 5, 1831. His faithful wife died some years before. It has been truly said,-
For elegance of manners, for brilliancy of conversation, for fervor of worship, for a large heart and a liberal hand, few men could surpass Mr. Austin. The darkness that obscured his intellect on many points, and which was never wholly removed, appeared not to impair in the least those prominent traits, that lay deep and shone through, to illustrate his character, and to win for him the love and admiration of all who came within his sphere .*
Miss Caulkins' Norwich, p. 437.
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Another, who knew him intimately, says,-
He closed life unusually well. Nearly a year before his death, his health began to decline. His forwardness, his eccentricity, his extrava- gance, his drollery, were all laid aside. An increasing simplicity and gentleness, with brotherly love and faith, characterized him the residue of his days. In life, he had commanded great attention ; in his decline and death, he awakened great interest in the hearts of his Christian friends. *
Of all the excellent and eloquent men who have graced the pulpits of this town none have excited deeper interest than Mr. Austin.
Dignified in personal appearance, polished in manners, eloquent in his public performances, and prompt to meet every demand that was made upon his ample fortune, he exerted a commanding influence not only over his own congregation, but also over many of the leading minds of his day. His memory was retentive and his conversational powers extraordinary. His devotional exercises were peculiarly happy and impressive ; and all who remember him testify that few have ever surpassed him in public prayer. t
* Dr. McEwen in Sprague's Annals, II. 206.
t Sprague, II. 195-206. Murray's Notes, pp. 114-125. N. Y. Observer, Aug. 11, 1544. Caulkins' Norwich, pp. 435-7. Sprague's Life of McDowell, pp. S-12. Disosway's Chhs. of N. Y. & its Vicinity, pp. 379-81. Ms. Records of Presb. of N. Y. N. J. Journal, No. 1257.
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CHAPTER XXVIII.
A. D. 1790-1838.
ECCLESIASTICAL - Rev. Samuel Spraggs - Rev. Menzies Rayner - Rev. Frede- rick Beasley, D. D. - Rev. Samuel Lilly -Introduction of Methodism - Lists of Methodist Ministers -Rev. Thomas Morrell.
AT the time of the decease of the Rev. Dr. Chandler, in June, 1790, the Rev. Samuel Spraggs had been the resident minister of St. John's church, since April of the previous year. Mr. Spraggs had given such general satisfaction in his work as an assistant, that on the 1st of January following he was appointed by the Wardens and Vestrymen to fill the vacant rectorship, with good promise of usefulness in his vocation.
REV. SAMUEL SPRAGGS,
the newly-appointed rector, was in the forty-fourth year of his age, and had, for a considerable period, been an accepta- ble preacher in connection with the Methodist Episcopal Church, having been admitted on trial, at the second Con- ference, held at Philadelphia, May 25, 1774. Of his paren- tage and the place of his nativity, no record remains. It is said that he came from England. Like all the Methodist preachers of that day, he had probably enjoyed but few ad- vantages of education, in which respect the contrast between him and Dr. Chandler was very noticeable.
Mr. Spraggs' first appointment, after being "admitted on trial," was to Brunswick Circuit in S. E. Virginia, May 25, 1774. In May, 1775, having been admitted to full connec- tion, he was appointed to Philadelphia, and re-appointed in May, 1776. The following record, made at Philadelphia, in Mr. Asbury's Journal, refers to Mr. Spraggs :-
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Lord's Day, June 2. Went to the chapel, and preached after brother S. S. and the people appeared to be deeply affected. But brother S. does not seem to enter into the Methodist plan of preaching. He uses a few pomp- ous, swelling words, which pass for something great with short-sighted people ; but are not calculated to do them much spiritual good .*
In May, 1777, he was appointed to the Frederick Circuit in Maryland. After the capture of Philadelphia by the British army, Sept. 26, 1777, he found his way again to Philadelphia, and in the course of the following winter or spring to New York. As the only travelling preacher there in the connection, he took charge of the old John st. Chapel from that time to the close of the war in 1783. In common with his fellow-itinerants, he was regarded by the British authorities as a loyalist, and so neither he nor the chapel was disturbed, during the war. His ministry there termi- nated in July, 1783, from which time his name disappears from the connection. It is probable, that, about this time, he married and located at Mount Holly, N. J. His wife's name was Mary. She was twelve years his senior.
It is not known how he was occupied during the next few years. He had, in all probability, become connected with the Episcopalians, and had been ordained a deacon. His salary at the first was £120. It was increased, Ap. 1, 1793, to £150. His ministry was cut short by his unexpected de- cease, Sep. 7, 1794.
Mr. Spraggs was an affectionate and useful pastor, (says Dr. Rudd,) and enjoyed the confidence and regard of his flock, with whom he was on terms of affable and cordial intercourse.t
His widow survived until June 27, 1821, dying at New York, in the S7th year of her age. She left the parish a small legacy. +
REV. MENZIES RAYNER.
At a meeting of the Vestrymen and Wardens, Feb. 10, 1795, a committee was appointed to write to the Rev. Men- zies Rayner, " respecting his residing here as minister of St.
* Asbury's Journal, I. 139. t Dr. Rudd's Notices of St. John's, p. 21.
# Clark's St. John's, pp. 164-S. Wakeley's Lost Chapters of Am. Methodism, pp. 202, S. 279-83, 287, 293. Records of St. John's Chh.
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John's Church." Mr. Rayner had been on the Methodist circuit that included this town, and so was well known here. The application was not successful. At the Easter meeting of the parish, April 6, 1795, Rev. Joseph Pilmoor was ap- pointed the rector, but declined, in favor of Christ church, (Ann st.) New York .*
The call to Mr. Rayner was shortly after renewed and ac- cepted. He began his ministry here as early as Jan. 1, 1796. He was a native of Hempstead, L. I., had entered the Methodist ministry in 1790, and had successively been ap- pointed to the Dutchess, Hartford, Lynn, Elizabeth Town, and Middletown (Ct.) circuits.
He was a young man of promise, (says Dr. Stevens,) and very accepta- ble among the people as a preacher. Having engaged himself to marry a young lady whose family was unwilling that she should share his privations as an Itinerant, he chose the alternative of resigning his ministerial post. It was done with deliberation, with frank notification of his purpose to his Presiding Elder, Rev. George Roberts, and with the avowal of undiminished confidence in the doctrines and discipline of Methodism.
He had just left the connection, when he was called here, in 1795. He was ordained to the priesthood, on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1797, by Rt. Rev. Samuel Provoost, D.D., on which occasion, the Rev. Abraham Beach, D.D., of New York, read the prayers, and the Rev. Mr. Gardiner, Assistant Minister of Trinity church, Newark, preached. His pastorate con- tinued nearly six years. In September, 1801, he accepted an invitation to the rectorship of the Episcopal church of Hartford, Ct., which position he held about twelve years. Afterwards he took charge of a church in Huntington, Ct. In his later years, he withdrew from the Episcopal min- istry, and became a Universalist preacher. In 1839, he sup- plied the pulpit of the Bleecker st. Universalist church of New York.+
· At a parish meeting, Sept. 5, 1801, as Mr. Rayner was
* Sprague's Annals, V. 266-70. Berrian's Trinity Chh., pp. 183, 4, 191. Wakeley's Lost Chapters, pp. 198, 207-18.
t Records of St. John's. Dr. Rudd's Discourse, pp. 21-2. Stevens' Memorial of Meth- odism, I. 127. Journals of the Gen. P. Ep. Convention, I. 209, 284, 318. N. J. Journal, No. 735.
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about to leave his charge, a committee was appointed to wait on the
REV. FREDERICK BEASLEY,
who was then in town, and invite him to the rectorship of St. John's, with a salary of £250. The call was accepted, and he was instituted in February, 1802.
Mr. Beasley was a native of Edenton, N. C., where he was born, in 1777. He graduated in 1797, at the College of New Jersey. In 1798, he was associated with Henry Kol- lock, of this town, as a Tutor in Princeton College, and served two years, pursuing, at the same time, under the di- rection of Pres. Samuel Stanhope Smith, D.D., the study of theology. He was employed as a Reader, for several months previous to Nov. 1800, by Christ church, New Brunswick, N. J. In the summer of the following year, he was ordained Deacon by Bishop Moore of New York, and soon after was invited to serve one of the churches of New York City, but declined in favor of St. John's of this town. In February 1802, arrangements .were made for his regular induction as rector ; and, not long subsequently, he was ordained Priest, also by Bishop Moore. His salary was £250 a year. His college friend, Henry Kollock, had, scarcely more than a year previous, become the pastor of the Presbyterian church of this town. Their intimacy, thus, was very happily re- newed for a season.
His ministry here was soon terminated. He resigned his rectorship, June 5, 1803, (six months before Mr. Kollock's removal), to accept a call to St. Peter's church, Albany, N. Y. In August 1809, he resigned this charge, to become the Colleague of the Rev. Joseph G. J. Bend, D. D., of St. Paul's, Baltimore, Md." This position he resigned in July, 1813, to become the Provost of the University of Pennsyl- vania, at Philadelphia. In 1815, the honorary degree of D.D., was conferred on him, both by the University over which he presided, and by Columbia College. He retired
* The Rev. Dr. Bend, in April, 1790, had married Mary, daughter of Abner Hatfield, of this town, and niece of Elias Boudinot, LL D. He died, at Baltimore, Sept. 13, 1S12, in his 50th year. His wife died in 1801, leaving two sons and one daughter.
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from the University in 1828, and, in 1829, became the rector of St. Michael's, Trenton, N. J. He resigned this charge in June, 1836, and withdrew from public life.
While rector of St. John's in this town, he had become tenderly attached to Susan W., daughter of Gen. Jonathan Dayton, whom he married, August 22, 1803, just as he was removing to Albany, N. Y. Mrs. Beasley, having given birth to a daughter, died, Nov. 27, 1804, in her 22d year, greatly lamented. Mr. Beasley subsequently (June 29, 1807) mar- ried Maria, daughter of Matthias Williamson, also of this town. On his retiring to private life, in 1836, he came hither, and spent the remainder of his days, among his relatives by marriage, in the prosecution of his studies. His publications had been somewhat numerous, of which the most profound were,-" A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind ; Part I.," Svo. 1822. (Part II. was completed, but not published) :- " A Vindication of the Fundamental Principles of Truth and Order in the Church of Christ, from the Alle- gations of the Rev. William E. Channing, D.D." 1830. He was a superior scholar, but excelled chiefly in the Philosophy of the Mind, being of the School of Locke. Though con- scientiously attached to the Episcopal Church, he was not illiberal towards other Churches.
He died, of dropsy in the chest, on Saturday, Nov. 1, 1845. His wife survived until July 2, 1852. They had nine chil- dren, seven of whom came to mature years. One of them [Frederick W.], took orders in the Episcopal Church, and settled in Bucks County, Pa .; another practised law at Trenton, N. J., and has attained great eminence at the bar and on the bench .*
Mr. Beasley's successor was the
REV. SAMUEL LILLY.
He was appointed rector of St. John's, August 28, 1803. He was admitted to Priest's Orders, shortly after, and in- ducted April 2, 1804, on an annual salary of five hundred dollars and the use of the parsonage. He had charge, also,
* Records of St. John's Chh. Clark's St. John's, pp. 168-70. Sprague's Annals, V. 477-84.
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of the academy, during the same year. No record has been found of his history, previous to his becoming the rector of St. John's. Early in the autumn of 1804, he was informed of the impossibility of raising the stipulated salary. The con- gregation voted, Oct. 21, 1804, to continue the salary until April 1, 1805, "if he should so long continue to perform divine service in this church and would then resign the Rec- torship." Mr. Lilly declined to accede to the terms pro- posed, and negotiations were continued until April 13, 1805, when he agreed to resign his charge on the first of May, " being then paid up all arrears of the stipend due to that time." The arrears were paid in full, April 30, and Mr. Lilly, the same day, formally relinquished the rectorship. Some time after he removed to the South, where he died, previous to 1824 .*
Until the close of the Revolutionary War, two churches only had been organized within the village of Elizabeth Town; The First Presbyterian, and St. John's Episcopal, churches. Soon after the War, the town was visited occa- sionally by traveling preachers of the Methodist Episcopal persuasion. Bishop Asbury, as previously noticed, on passing through the town, preached by invitation, Sept. 6, 1785, in the unfinished Presbyterian church. Either then, or shortly after, a society was gathered, and taken under the care of the Conference. Of this society, one of the earliest and most efficient members was the wife of Mr. Jonathan Morrell. This worthy couple originated in Newtown, L. I., but, at an early day, took up their abode in the City of New York, where they resided more than a quarter of a century. Mrs. Morrell was one of the small company, who were induced to hear Philip Embury, the carpenter, preach in his own house, at New York, in the year 1766,-the earliest American Methodist preacher. She was converted, and had the honor of being enrolled in the first Methodist Class in America. In 1772, Mr. Morrell removed to this town, and, with his wife, united with the First Presbyterian church under the
* Ms. Records of St. John's Chh. N. J. Journal, No. 10$2. Dr. Rudd's IIist. Notices of St. John's Chh. p. 22.
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care of the Rev. Mr. Caldwell. At the organization of the Methodist society, Mrs. Morrell returned to the people of her first love, and became one of the principal supports of the society.
The first who ministered to this handful of people, (for such they were for many years), were circuit preachers, appointed by the General Conference, generally two by two, in the order following:
The appointments by the General Conference to the E. Town Circuit were as follows :
1787. Robert Cloud, Thomas Mor- 1798. James Tolleson, Samuel
rell. Thomas, Thomas Morrell.
1788. John McCluskey, Pile.
Simon 1799. Thomas Everard, David Bar- tine.
1789. John Merrick, John Cooper. 1790. Jethro Johnson, Gamaliel Bailey.
1800. Joseph Totten, Jesse Justice. 1801. Joseph Totten, William Mills. 1802. Joseph Totten, William Mills. 1803. Samuel Thomas, George Wool- ley, Joseph Stevens.
1791. No record.
1792. John Clark, Joseph Totten.
1793. John Ragan, Menzies Ray- 1804. Thomas Morrell, Benjamin ner.
1794. John Clark, Hezekiah C. Wooster.
1795. Shadrach Bostwick, Robert Hutchinson, William Storms.
1796. John Fountain, Albert Van Nostrand.
1797. John Clark, Timothy Mer- ritt, John Seward.
Stratton, John Sharpley.
1810. William Mills, Jacob Hevener.
With the exception of the year, 1821, when Joseph Ly- brand received the appointment, no preachers were assigned to the E. Town circuit from 1811 to 1822. Mr. Morrell, during this period, preached regularly on the Sabbath, aided by the preachers on the Essex circuit. In 1823, Samuel S. Kennard, and, in 1824, Robert Lutton were stationed here. From 1825 to 1838, Thomas Morrell was classed among the "supernumerary preachers, in connection with " this church ; and, from 1825 to 1853, the following preachers were stationed here :-
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Iliff, Samuel Budd.
1805. Peter Vannest, David Bartine. 1806. William McLenahan, David Bartine.
1807. James Moore, Jacob Hevener. 1808. James Moore, Thomas Strat- ton. 1809. William Smith, Thomas
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1825. Thomas B. Sargent.
1840. Robert Lutton.
1826. Thomas B. Sargent.
1841. Robert Lutton.
1827. Joseph Holdich.
1842. Alexander Gilmore.
1828. Joseph Holdich.
1843. Joseph Ashbrook.
1829. Daniel Parrish.
1844. Joseph Ashbrook.
1830. Edmund S. Janes.
1845. James O. Rogers.
1831. Edmund S. Janes.
1846. James O. Rogers.
1832. William A. Wilmer.
1847. Richard B. Westbrook.
1833. Edwin L. Janes.
1848. Richard B. Westbrook.
1834. William HI. Gilder.
1849. Thomas McCarroll,
1835. James Buckley.
1850. Thomas McCarroll.
1836. James Buckley.
1851. Lewis R. Dunn.
1837. George A. Raybold.
1852. Lewis R. Dunn.
1838. Isaac N. Felch.
1853. Alexander H. Mead.
1839. Isaac N. Felch.
In 1852, a second Church was commenced at Elizabeth Port, and located on Fulton st. For the next five years, the appointments were as follows:
1854. Alexander H. Mead, E. Town; Isaac Trotter," E. Port.
1855. James Ayars, Jonathan B. Heward,
1856. John Ogden Winner, "
Albert H. Brown, 66 66
1857. John Ogden Winner, “
Horace S. Bishop,
1858. Richard Vanhorne, “ 66
Jeremiah Cowins. 66
In 1859, a new enterprise was started in Mechanic street, now known as St. Paul's Church, since which time the ap- pointments for the three churches have been as follows, in the order of time,-Water st., Fulton st., and St. Paul's :-
1859. Richard Vanhorne, George F. Dickinson, John F. Dodd. 1860. Dallas D. Lore, George F. Dickinson, Edward W. Adams.
1861. Dallas D. Lore, John F. Hurst, Edward W. Adams.
1862. George H. Whitney, John F. Hurst, Elbert Clement.
1863. John F. Hurst, Charles S. Coit, James N. Fitzgerald.
1864. John F. Hurst, Charles S. Coit, Sylvester N. Bebout. 1865. Richard B. Lockwood, Sylvester HI. Opdyke, Alexander L. Brice. 1866. Richard B. Lockwood, Sylvester II. Opdyke, Alexander L. Brice. 1867. Benjamin Kelley, James I. Boswell, Alexander L. Brice.
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