Wearing, Anne

Ministry

A transcription of journal extracts published in the Primitive Methodist Magazine relating to her experiences in New York and Philadelphia in 1830 is attached. Ann describes in some detail her experience of attending a week long camp meeting. She also emphasises the importance of family visiting as a mission activity.

Family

Anne came from Devon where she had been associated with the Wesleyan Methodists. She with some of her relations emigrated to America circa late 1829 where she joined with the Primitive Methodists. Already a preacher, she was taken out as a travelling preacher by the early missionaries in New York.

I have not been able to identify Anne in online records. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Circuits

• 1830 New York -USA
• 1831 Hudson
• 1832 disappears

References

Primitive Methodist Magazine 1831/184; 1831/206

E. Dorothy Graham, Chosen by God – A list if the Female Travelling Preachers of Early Primitive Methodism

W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers