the Rev. Alexander B. Black succeeded Rev. Henry Pope, Jr. in the Pownal 
     
     Circuit and Rev. 0.0. Huestis was appointed to Bedeque and Tryon. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Evans followed Rev. Smallwood in the pastorate of 
     
     the Charlottetown Circuit in 1852. Rev. Dr. Evans was not only a scholarly man 
     
     and a good preacher, but he was also a thoroughly public spirited citizen. The 
     
     loss of the ill-fated “Fairie Queen,” which took place while he was stationed in 
     
     Charlottetown, and which created such a storm of indignation on the part of the 
     
     public, brought the pastor of the Methodist Society prominently to the front.”‘7 
     
     “At a meeting of the inhabitants, called in accordance with a requisition to the 
     
     high sheriff, John C. Binns, and signed by eighty members of the community, 
     
     Rev. Dr. Evans spoke in a way that few men could have done, on condemnation 
     
     of the negligence of the government in not having proper inspection, and the 
     
     cowardice of the captain and crew. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The first change on the board of trustees of the Charlottetown Circuit since 
     
     they were made a corporate body, some twenty years previously, was caused by 
     
    
   
   
    
     the resignation of Mr. John Treneman in 1853. Mr. Richard Heartz was ap- 
     
     pointed a trustee of the society in the place of Mr. Treneman. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1853, the Rev. William C. Beale was stationed at Bedeque, and the Rev. 
     
     Alexander McLeod DesBrisay at Pownal, where each remained for two years. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Rev. John McMurray succeeded Rev. Dr. Evans in the Charlottetown 
     
     Circuit in 1854, where he remained three years. Rev. McMurray was ordained at 
     
     the first Wesleyan Conference held in Charlottetown in 1838, and he was twice 
     
     elected President of the Conference of Eastern British America, first in 1865 and 
     
     again in 1874. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1855, the Rev. Alexander McLeod DesBrisay was stationed at Bedeque, 
     
     the Rev. Thomas M. Albrighton at Pownal, and the Rev. John Brewster at 
     
     Mount Stewart.””, 
     
    
   
   
    
     “The following year, the Rev. George M. Barratt was sent to Bedeque, and 
     
     Rev. George S. Milligan took charge of the Pownal Circuit. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Rev. Ingham Sutcliffe succeeded Rev. McMurray in Charlottetown in 
     
     1857, and the Rev. Henry Pope Jr., was the same year sent to Little York. The 
     
     visit of Dr. and Mrs. Palmer to Charlottetown in September of the following 
     
     year and their work in the Society, in conjunction with the Rev. Sutcliffe and the 
     
     ministers from the adjoining country circuits, were remembered for many years. 
     
     An address presented to Dr. and Mrs. Palmer, as they were leaving the Island, 
     
     signed by the minsiters and members of the Official Quarterly Board, expressed 
     
     in glowing terms the Society’s appreciation of the valuable services rendered by 
     
     those peculiarly gifted evangelists. During Rev. Sutcliffe’s pastorate, considerable 
     
     changes took place in the personnel of the Trustee Board. On the 30th of June 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     17 Ibid, pp. 319A-320A. 
     
     18 Ibid. p. 320A. 
     
    
   
   
    
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