congregation the subject of the enlargement of the chapel.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     The meeting was held according to announcement, and after a full discussion 
     
     of the whole subject, a committee was appointed to solicit subscriptions to carry 
     
     on the work. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the 4th of July, 1847, the Rev. William Webb died, at the age of forty- 
     
     four years, just as he had entered upon the second year of his pastorate in 
     
     Charlottetown. He was buried by the Rev. Dr. Jenkins, then rector of St. Paul’s 
     
     Church, in the old burial ground, at the entrance of the Malpeque Road, where a 
     
     stone now marks his last resting place. In 1847, Rev. William McCarty was sta- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tioned at Pownal. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Rev. Charles DeWolfe, afterward the dean of Mount Allison, filled the 
     
     pastorate of the Charlottetown circuit for the remainder of the conference year. 
     
     The work of enlarging the chapel, begun under Rev. Webb, was finished during 
     
     the pastorate of Rev. Dr. DeWolfe. The large wing, added on Prince Street, com- 
     
     pletely changed the appearance of the building, and the chapel, with its increased 
     
     accommodation, would seat twelve hundred persons. A part of this old chapel, 
     
     which was being removed by the purchasers to a site on Queen Street for a liquor 
     
     store, fell to pieces on the way, and it was stated at the time, that this was a 
     
    
   
   
    
     protest against the uses to which it was intended to be put.”16 
     
    
   
   
    
     21. 1848 - 1858 
     
     CHANGES OF ASSIGNMENTS IN PASTORAL CIRCUITS 
     
    
   
   
    
     “In 1848, the Rev. Edmund Botterall assumed charge of the Charlottetown 
     
     Circuit, and remained there two years. On his retirement from the active work of 
     
     the ministry, he removed to Montreal, where he resided for several years. On the 
     
     26th of October, 1893, he was killed in that city by a street car accident at the 
     
    
   
   
    
     age of eighty-two years. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Rev. Henry Pope, Jr., was stationed in Pownal in 1849, and remained 
     
     two years in charge of that circuit. The Rev. Frederick Smallwood entered upon 
     
     the pastorate of the Charlottetown Circuit in July, 1850. His ministrations were 
     
     signally successful, and under his preaching nearly three hundred persons joined 
     
     the society. He remained two years in Charlottetown. Rev. Smallwood possessed 
     
     a wonderful preaching force, and in the pulpit he has few equals. While at the 
     
     height of his power, he lost the use of his voice, and was compelled on this ac- 
     
     count to retire from the active work of the ministry. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1873, he returned to Charlottetown, where throughout the remainder of 
     
     his declining years, he employed himself in visiting the sick, assisting in 
     
     ministerial work, and other duties with great acceptance and profit. He died on 
     
     the 2nd of November, 1890, at the age of seventy-eight years. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1850, Rev. James Buckley was appointed to Bedeque and Tryon. In 1851, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     16 Ibid. p. 319A. 
     
    
   
   
    
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