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METHODISM IN CHARLOTTETOWN

From the Daily Examiner, June 22, 1898

List of the Ministers

The Halifax Herald, in the course of a timely article, remarks that Methodism in Prince Edward Island dates back to 1782. In that year, Rev. William Black visited the Island and found one Methodist there, Mr. Benjamin Chappell, whose family has ever since been identified with the church, and whose grandson, the Rev. Benjamin Chappell, was some years ago pastor at the Queen Square and Portland Street churches in St. John, and is now a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Japan. Mr. Black was treated courteously, but his first visit made no great impression upon the public mind. He was more successful later on, and visits, by himself and others, continued to be made until 1807, when the Rev. James Bulpitt was placed in charge of the little flock. Since then, the following ministers have been stationed there with the date of the appointment:

1807 - Rev. James Bulpitt.	1848 - Rev. E. Botterell.
1815 - Rev. John Kick.	1850 - Rev. Fred Smallwood.
1817 -Rev. J. B. Strong.	1852 - Rev. Ephraim Evans, D. D..
1818 - Rev. Wm. Fishpool.	1854 - Rev. John McMurray.
1819 - Rev. Robert Alder.	1857 - Rev. Ingham Sutcliffe.
1821 - Rev. Stephen Bamford.	1860 - Rev. Henry Daniel.
1823 - Rev. Wm Burt.	1862 - Rev. John Brewster.
1826 - Rev. Henry Pope, sr.	1863 - Rev. M. Richey, D. D.
1828 - Rev. Wm. Temple.	1867 - Rev. Henry Pope, jr.
1829 - Rev. Matthew Richey.	1870 - Rev. G. S. Milligan A. M.
1830 - Rev. Wm. Macdonald.	1871 - Rev. James Taylor.
1831 - Rev. Stephen Bamford.
1833 -Rev. Wm. Dawson.	1873 - Rev. D. D. Currie.
1834 - Rev. J. P. Hetherington.	1876 - Rev. John Lathern
1836 - Rev. Richard Knight.	1879 - Rev. H. P. Cowperthwaite, A. M.
1839 - Rev. William Smith.	1882 - Rev J. Burwash, A. M.
1843 - Rev. J. B. Strong.	1885 - Rev. Job Shenton.
1846 - Rev. William Webb.	1888 - Rev. John Read.
1847 - Rev. Charles Dewolfe, A. M.	1891 - Rev. W. W. Brewster.
	1894 - Rev. G. M. Campbell

The Assistant Ministers have been:

1845 - Rev. John Prince.	1864 - Rev. T. D. Hart
1847 - Rev. Wm. McCarty.	1864 - Rev. H. Sprague, A. B.
1849 - Rev. H. Pope, jr.	1866 - Rev. Jabez A Rogers
1851 - Rev. J. R Narraway, A. M.	1871 - Rev. Robert McArthur
1853 - Rev. Thomas Gaetz.	1873 - Rev. Wm. Penna
1854 - Rev. T. N Albrighton.	1874 - Rev. R. S. Crisp
1858 - Rev. Wm. Ryan.	1876 - Rev. Wm. Fiedler
1859 - Rev. W. W. Perkins.	1877 - Rev. George Steel
1861 - Rev. Richard Pratt.	1879 - Rev. G. M. Campbell
1862 - Rev. W. C. Brown.	1880 - Rev. Wm Tippett
1863 - Rev. Edwin Evans.	1882 - Rev. J. W. Wadman

Pownal was set off as a separate circuit in 1855, Little York and Cornwall in 1858, Souris in 1874, and Upper Prince Street, (now Grace Church) in 1883. The minsters of the latter have been Revs. S. H. Rice, W. H. Harrison, W. W. Brewer, C. W. Hamilton, G. C.P. Palmer, and W. J. Kirby. There are now 19 circuits on the Island, with 21 ministers and a membership last year of 3,535, and a Methodist population of about 15,000.