PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 3 i 7a age was erected, in connection with the chapel on Richmond street, Charlottetown , and at Little York , where preaching had been held in private houses for some time, a neat chapel was built. The Rev. Mr. Burt was followed by Rev. Henry Pope in 1826, and the Rev. Thomas Davies was in that year sent to Murray Harbour . The Rev. Henry Pope was one of the early English pioneer preach¬ ers of the upper Canada district, and the first Wesleyan preacher in Fort York , now To¬ ronto, then a place of fifteen hun¬ dred inhabitants. He was an uncle of the late Hon . J. C. Pope and the late Judge Pi >]>e, both of this province. In 1827 the Rev. William Smith was stationed in the Bedeque and Tryon circuit, and the follow¬ ing year the Rev. William Webb was sent to Murray Harbour . In 182 S the Rev. Wil ¬ liam Temple succeeded Rev. Henry Pope in the Charlottetown circuit. The Rev. Mr. Temple was one of the leaders among the early Methodist preachers, and he occu¬ pied several of the most important positions of trust and responsibility at the disposal of the conference. He died on the 18th of May, 1873, in the eighty-third year of his age, and the fifty-third year of his ministry. In this year the Rev. John Shaw was sta¬ tioned at Murray Harbour . In 1829 the Rev. Matthew Richey was appointed to the Charlottetown circuit, but, owing, to the illness of his wife, he re¬ mained only one year at that time. The Rev. William McDonald , a young minister from the Canada district, followed Rev. Dr. Richey in the Charlottetown pastorate for one year. He was followed by a former pastor, the Rev. Stephen Bamford , who re¬ mained two years. The Rev. Robert Cooney , who had been a priest of the Roman Catho ¬ lic church until he was thirty years old, was stationed at Murray Harbour in 1831, where he remained for two years, and the Rev. John Snowball , who went to Bedeque and Tryon at this time remained there for the full ministerial term of three years. In 1833 the Rev. William Dowson was ap¬ pointed to the Charlottetown circuit but, at the close of the first year, he resigned his pastorate and removed to England . As the Methodist society grew in Char¬ lottetown, the chapel premises on Richmond street became too small to accommodate the congregations, and it was decided to pur¬ chase a piece of land eighty feet wide by one hundred and sixty-eight feet long, on the corner of Prince and Richmond streets, for the purpose of erecting a new building; The deed was dated 16th November, 1833, and the land was conveyed to Isaac Smith , Rob ¬ ert Longworth, William Tanton , John Bov- yer, ,. Henry Smith , John Treneman , Thomas Dawson and Charles Welsh as trustees of the-society. In 1S24 the Rev. J. P. Hetherington , a former member of the Irish Wesleyan Con¬ ference, entered upon the pastorate of the Charlottetown circuit. Under his adminis¬ tration the trustees built the chapel on the comer of Prince and Richmond streets.. The building was an oblong wooden struc¬ ture, forty-two feet wide by fifty-five feet long, with flat ceiling, high-backed pews. and a gallery around three sides. The build¬ ing would seat about six hundred persons. On the 7th of July, 1834, the trustees met and agreed upon the following plan for the disposal of the pews in the new chapel: " Re ¬ solved that the preference of the pews shall be given t<> the highest subscriber, according to the promise made previous to the building of the chapel, that the pews shall be rated > s