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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boehler , Peter , 1712 -1775 (search)
Boehler, Peter, 1712-1775
Clergyman: born in Frankfort, Germany, Dec. 31, 1712: was graduated at Jena in 1736; ordained a Moravian minister in 1737; and was sent as an evangelist to Carolina and Georgia in 1738.
On his way he became acquainted with John and Charles Wesley, upon whom he exercised great influence.
Indeed. John Wesley records in his diary that Boehler was the person through whom he was brought to believe in Christ.
The Moravian colony in Georgia was broken up and removed to Pennsylvania in 1740.
He was consecrated bishop in 1748 and superintended the Moravian churches in America in 1 753-64, when he was recalled to Germany.
He died in London, England, April 27, 1775.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Methodist Episcopal Church , (search)
Methodist Episcopal Church,
A religious denomination which dates its origin in the United States back to 1766.
About thirty years prior thereto John and Charles Wesley visited America and labored in Georgia, but did not achieve immediate results.
It was reserved for Philip Embury and Robert Strawbridge, two Wesleyan local preachers from Ireland, to really organize the movement in America.
Embury began his work in the lower part of New York City by gathering a few Methodists together for regular worship.
In 1768 these people built the first Methodist church in America, on John Street. The site is still occupied by a Methodist edifice.
Strawbridge at about the same time gathered about him a few people in Frederick county, Md. The first annual conference was held in Philadelphia in 1773, but the Methodist Episcopal Church was not formally established till Dec. 24, 1784, when a general conference met in Baltimore.
By the latter year the number of members had increased to 14,988.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whitefield , George 1714 - (search)
Whitefield, George 1714-
Clergyman; born in Gloucester, England, Dec. 16, 1714; was a religious enthusiast in very early life, fasting twice a week for thirty-six hours, and at the age of eighteen became a member of the club in which the denomination of Methodists took its rise.
He became intimately associated in religious matters with John and Charles Wesley.
In 1736 he was ordained deacon, and preached with such extraordinary effect the next Sunday that a complaint was made that he had driven fifteen persons mad. The same year the Wesleys accompanied Oglethorpe to Georgia, and in 1737 John Wesley invited Whitefield to join him in his work in America.
He came in May, 1738; and after
George Whitefield. laboring four months, and perfecting plans for founding an orphan-house at Savannah, he returned to England to receive priest's orders and to collect funds for carrying out his benevolent plans.
With more than $5,000 collected he returned to Savannah, and there founded an o