REV. A. FLETCHER WELDON 
     
     1859 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Rev. A. Fletcher Weldon was born in Dorchester, New Brunswick in 1837. 
     
     He underwent a change of heart while attending a Methodist Class Meeting and 
     
    
   
   
    
     came to be received on trial in 1860. In the previous year, 1859, he served as the 
     
     pastor in the West Cape-Cascumpec Circuit. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Rev. Weldon also was stationed in New Brunswick, but his health failed, and he 
     
     stayed out of the ministry until 1868, when he took up the work again. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ordained in 1872, Rev. A. Fletcher Weldon served in the Maritimes and in 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bermuda. He retired in 1886 and died on January 18, 1890. Rev. Weldon walked 
     
     with God and enjoyed intimate fellowship in Christ. 
     
    
   
   
    
     WILLIAM CROSCROMBE BROWN 
     
     1860 - 1862 
     
    
   
   
    
     “The native place of William Croscrombe Brown was Windsor, Nova Scotia, 
     
     and the date of this birth December 5th, 1834. He came of blended Roman and 
     
     Saxon lineage; his father being of French extraction and his mother of English 
     
     descent. 
     
    
   
   
    
     At the age of eighteen he united with the Methodist Church in Windsor at the 
     
     close of an extensive revival under the ministry of the late Rev. Frederic W. Moore. 
     
     Of the many persons converted during this revival three were destined to become 
     
     ministers of the Methodist Church: J.J. Teasdale, Isaac Thurlow, and William C. ' 
     
     Brown. For four years he was a member of the class conducted in Windsor by the 
     
     father of Dr. T. Watson Smith. Three years after his conversion, namely in 1856, he 
     
     was admitted by the Quarterly Board a local preacher, on the nomination of Rev. 
     
     Roland Morton, to whom he, with others, was indebted for much kind aid in 
     
     preparation for the itinerant work. During the period of preparaion, and when he 
     
     had given up business to devote himself wholly to study, he met with a serious 
     
     accident the effects of which he never wholly recovered, his retirement finally 
     
     resulting at an earlier period than under other circumstances it would have taken 
     
     place. In June, 1857, again on the nomination of Mr. Morton, he was recommended 
     
     to the Halifax District which met at Halifax for the Itinerant Ministry, and after a 
     
     most satisfactory examination, was accepted, and sent by the Wesleyan Conference 
     
     of Eastern British America to the Woodstock Circuit under the superintendence of 
     
     the late Rev. John Prince. Other succeeding appointments before ordination were: 
     
     Nashwaak, (1858); Gagetown, (1859); West Cape, P.E.I. (1860) and Souris, P.E.I., 
     
     (1862-63). 
     
    
   
   
    
     In July, 1861, he was ordained at the Conference in St. John, NB, Wm. B. 
     
     Boyce, President, and J. McMurray, Secretary, and returned to West Cape. Thence 
     
     he went to Souris, P.E.I., (1862); and in 1863 to Yarmouth. Here his marriage took 
     
     place to Miss Annie R. Flint, daughter of John Flint, Esq., of that town. Subsequent 
     
     circuits were as follows: Upham 1864, Dorchester 1867, Digby 1868, Pictou 1871, 
     
     St. George’s, Bermuda, 1875, Liverpool 1878, Pictou 1880, Horton 1883, Darmouth 
     
    
   
   
    
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