. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. ITTON IAIiK FAKThe Home of David Buxton. Who Joseph Salt was and what his relation to the Wootton Society have faithfullybeen put down for us by H. Bourne in his Journals under date September 18th, 1808 : — Mr. Joseph Salt, a respectable farmer, of Wootton, was fully brought to Godunder Thomas Cottons ministry. Before this, Mr. Salt had been awakened bya pious young female. [Why this periphrase, O Venerable Founder ? Was notthe pious young female one Mrs. Samuel Evans, better known as DinahMorris ?] Our Wootton people met in the Lexhe
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. ITTON IAIiK FAKThe Home of David Buxton. Who Joseph Salt was and what his relation to the Wootton Society have faithfullybeen put down for us by H. Bourne in his Journals under date September 18th, 1808 : — Mr. Joseph Salt, a respectable farmer, of Wootton, was fully brought to Godunder Thomas Cottons ministry. Before this, Mr. Salt had been awakened bya pious young female. [Why this periphrase, O Venerable Founder ? Was notthe pious young female one Mrs. Samuel Evans, better known as DinahMorris ?] Our Wootton people met in the Lexhead and Ramsor class ; butwhen it was judged proper to have a class at Wootton, Mr. J. Salt was madeleader, and Mrs. Salt was a mother in Israel. D4 PRIMITIVE METHODIST If Mrs. Salt was a mother in Israel, Elizabeth Salt seems to have been a fair•daughter of Zion, of whom there were a good many hereabouts, as the Journals testify. Writing just after the September, 1811, plan was out,and like a general casting about in his mind to see howmany effective troops he could bring into the field,Bourne writes:— There are seventeen preachers on this plan, andthree at Eamsor. One is raised up at Rocester, andtwo will shortly be raised up at Cannock I suppose the Lord will raise up some women—Hannah Heaton, Dorothy Buxton, Sarah Scott, andSarah Mace. Elizabeth Salt at Wootton bids fairto be useful. So there are nearly thirty in view,as Samuel Simcock has begun. Clowes, who was in these parts in 1810, bears a similartestimony to the heads of these house-churches. JOSEPH SALT. We did not limit the preaching to one place, butpreached from house to house. We found the housesof Brother Crichley (Critchelow) and Brother Buxtonvery convenient ; in the h
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