. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . fftrsrOENcE or J P DOF?R ///llsdal!: N£w Yor HISTOKY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. in a style of native eloquence which would seem self-suflB-cient to wake up the sympathy of angels, when her dauj^h-ter and sister, with some eight or ten of her most respectableneighbors, came forward and gave me their names. Inconclusion I gave out another appointment. On my ar-rival I found six of the number happily converted. Iremained with them, preaching every night, about tenday
. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . fftrsrOENcE or J P DOF?R ///llsdal!: N£w Yor HISTOKY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. in a style of native eloquence which would seem self-suflB-cient to wake up the sympathy of angels, when her dauj^h-ter and sister, with some eight or ten of her most respectableneighbors, came forward and gave me their names. Inconclusion I gave out another appointment. On my ar-rival I found six of the number happily converted. Iremained with them, preaching every night, about tendays, and organized a class of thirty members. The lady here mentioned was Anna, wife of Colonel JohnPtxley, not Peaksly. From this extract we learn some of the circumstancessurrounding the introduction of Methodism among therough and somewhat lawless people who then inhabited thisregion. After the class was formed it continued to worshipin private houses till the summer of 1811, when the firstchurch was built, on lands donated by Parla Foster. It wasa frame building, unfinished on the inside, and suppliedwith seats formed o
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