Strong’s pastorate in Charlottetown he was assisted by the Rev. Samson Busby, who resided at Murray Harbour, which was then part of the Charlottetown

circuit.

The Rev. John Fishpool was appointed to Bedeque and Tryon in 1817, which then for the first time became a separate circuit. In Bedeque, a small chapel had been erected the previous year, and a building, commenced in Tryon at this time, was completed during the pastorate of Rev. Fishpool. The Rev. John B. Strong was appointed to the Bedeque circuit in 1818, and the Rev. John Fishpool was transferred to Charlottetown. In this year Mr. Adam Clark Avard, a young man who had been educated for a lawyer, entered the Wesleyan ministry, as the first candidate from the Charlottetown circuit.

In 1819, the Rev. Robert Aldar succeeded the Rev. Fishpool in Charlottetown, and the Rev. George Millar was appointed to Bedeque. Rev. Aldar was an Englishman, who had been sent to Nova Scotia a few years previously by the London Missionary Society. He remained two years in Charlottetown, and under his ministry preaching places were established at Little York, West River, Pownal and Fullerton’s Marsh.”‘°

16. 1821 - 1824 NEW MINISTERS

“The Rev. Stephen Bamford took charge of the Charlottetown circuit in 1821. He had come out to Halifax in 1802, as a private in His Majesty’s Twenty- ninth Regiment, where he remained for four years. During all this time, as a local preacher, he had given the Methodists of Halifax an opportunity to form a satisfactory estimate of the man who so frequently stood before them in his military garb declaring the counsel of God. In 1806 the London Missionary Com- mittee secured his discharge from the army, and he then entered upon the full work of the ministry. Among the Wesleyan preachers of his day, he was unique. His large form, military bearing, and powerful sermons usually created a marked impression upon his hearers.

The Rev. T. Payne was appointed to Bedeque and Tryon in 1822, and the Rev. John Snowball was appointed to the Murray Harbour Circuit, where he remained for two years. Mr. Snowball was an Englishman from Yorkshire, who arrived in Halifax in 1817. He was, the following year, ordained to the Methodist ministry, and for upwards of fifty years occupied a prominent place among his brethren. He died in Sackville in 1871. Rev. Snowball was the father of Lieutenant-Governor Snowball of New Brunswick.

In 1824, Rev. William Burt succeeded Rev. Bamford in the pastorate of the Charlottetown circuit. In November of this year, upon the arrival of Colonel John Ready as Lieutenant-governor of Prince Edward Island, two of the three Wesleyan ministers then stationed in the colony — Rev. William Burt, of Charlottetown, and Rev. George Jackson, of Bedeque —— waited upon His Ex- cellency and presented him with an address of welcome, ‘acting as representatives

10 lbid. pp. 315-A-316A.

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