FEBRUARY 28. 194s

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Bedeque United Churchj

m. ftlstory u not“... lilrcelt . la Prince Edward lslssd

Tracing its Roots in tlis Cultural, Educational and Commercial Fields at the Community.

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ly l. I. b. Acknowledgements and Bibliography e

Most oi’ the histories Prince Edward Island have been consulted in the pireparation o1 this work as well as many o! the early Island

newfliﬂiwrs on iile in the Charlottetown Library where every facility"

ior research was-ocurteously extended The local church records st Bedeque were very kindly put at the author's disposal by the Oiiiclal Board through their secretary, Arnold Henderson. Sicnilar (lo-operation was received lroni the librarian oi the Mount Allison University Lib- vary where/the archives o1 the Wesleyan Methodist Church in the Maritlmes are stored. and 7mm the librarian 0d Pine l-llll Divinity Hell where some o! the early Presbyterian records may be iound.

For illustrations the invaluable collection made by Thomas moyse s! iormer sninisters’ pictures has been pateiully received on loan as

Pastor oi’ Bcdoque mull - 1m . 1943

also several photos from individual donors. The picture o! the Church and the group pictures are the generously donated W"! l" R"- W B. Orowe.

The author thanks all who hebed in any way in this P16886111 lug, , - h... the ' and- s o1 the “ ’ Official Board and others who, by expert criticism, kindly advice, interviews and questionnaires, made themselves partners in this undertaking.

The ehlei sources consulted include);-

irstcrviews or Questionnaires

Callback, William.

Haslam. Mrs. Rnilnall. 4

Henderson, James.

Inman. '1‘. J. ' i

Leard. Mrs. Herbert.

Lord. Mrs. Herbert.

Lowthcr, Mr. and Mrsﬁchrlstopher. _ I

REV. J. M. minim. Pastor o! Bedsque marge. . 104a - 1647

Imwther, Mrs. Leigh.

MaoCauil. Artemas.

MacFas-lane, J. H.

Moyse, Thomas

Muttart. Lavinia J.

mitten, W. l.

Myas. Hermes.

Strong, C. Edward. ' ' Trueman, Mrs. Iievris.

Public Ioeordl:

Record Book. marriage licenses and Militia. commissions.‘ etc. in the Island o! 5t. John, commenced in 1787 by Robert Grey-Pro- vincial Secretary's Ollice, Charlottetown.

Record o! Marriages on Prince Edward Island beginning 1838- Provinciel Building end Provincial Ssnatorlum, Charlottetown.

"Record of Registry St. John's Islsnd Custom House." Started 1787.—-Clha.r1ottetcwn Public library,

Church Records: Wesleyan Methodist Records kept at Bcdequez- 1. Beptisumloolc 1. 1&1-'1842, witha teiw marriages. '2. Quarterly Meeting Minutes (1856-1886). 3. Quarterly Meeting Minutes (1892-1037). 4. Minister's Minute Book, started 1865, containing trustee minutes for the circuit, Sunday School Committees, m c. s. Members Bedeque Oircilit. Book No. 2, started iaso. 1 not found).

(Book No.

‘MEMBERS OF SESSION; BEDEQOE PASTORAL

bert Palmer, Mrs. B. M. Mscitay, Mrs. ll. B. Ween

lack Row. lest to right: lﬂett. William Montgomery. William Btevert,

, __ IlE GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETOWN

Mort-t 120w, lolt to right: Irving Toombs, Rev. E. S. Weeks, William Callbeck, Hon. Horace Wright. ‘ Back Row, {sit to right: Melville Johnson, Jc-hn Dawson. Harris Bcu lter. Walter Craig, Harrison MacFarlai-le, Sterling MaKcay.

snwasneaun rausnss or pronoun rasro ‘m’ cmlm" T“ "m?" CWM“ °F CAMPA- 1948- Ilront now. m to rights- anion Henderson iﬂeoordinl emu-st, use‘: Peterson, Aleusnder moral-m... me Platte, w. .1. Inman. Adel-

Albert Weeks, O arise Henderson, Iorese WrishtlfJi-q Debris: Lori. William MacLellaa, Ralph Calibeck, Harry

l MaoParlem, Lame

6. Bearlctown Ol-iopel Account Book, 188i. Wesleyan Methodist Records kept in Mount Allison University Library. Backville, NB;

1. Nova Scat-la District Minutes, 1826-1864.

I. Prince ..Ed.lW81‘d Island District lvlinutcs 1859-1803.

8. Nova Bcotle Circuit Accounts-Eastern District 1860-1858.

Record Book. Baptist Church. " ‘ ,

with a iew earlier notes: _

, Minutes oi Presbytery o! Prince Edward Island, 1821-1B32.—Plne Hill Divinity Hall, Haiiiax, N5:

BOOKS AND PALEHLITS

John Stewart, Account o! Prince Edward Iland h Gull s! It. Lawrence, North America, Iondcn, 1808.

John Cambridge, Quaker, Description of Prince Edward Island in the Gui! oi St.‘ laswrencc. London. 1805. _

Walter‘ Johnstone, A Series oi Letters descriptive ofPrlnce Edward Island in the Gull of St. Lawrence, 1822. _ v .

Walter Johnstone, Travels in Prince Edward Island. Edinburgh, 1882.

C. Birch Bagstor, Tho Progress and Prospects otPrince Edward Island. Oimridttetown, John Ings, 1861.

Rev. George Sutherland, A Manuel oi the Geogrﬂphy and Natural and Civil History oi’ Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown. John Ross, 1861. » The Private and local Acts cl the General Asucrnbly oi Prince Ed- ward Island, 1773-1862. Charlottetowrn, John Ings, 1802.

Duncan Cauuplaell, History of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown. Breather. 1875. .

James B. Pollard, Historical Sketch o! tho Eastern Regions or New France; Also Prince Edward Island, Military and Civil. Charlottetown, 1090.

lihoKinnon and Warburton. Past and Present oi Prince Edward Imssd. Charlottetown, Bowen. (100877.

John. MccKlnnan, A Sketch Book. liumnsrsi’ . (19157).

A. B. Wsrburton, A History or Prince Edward Iland. Printed by Barnes. St. John. N3. 1923.

R. Douglas, Place-Names of Prince Edward Island With Meanings, Ottawa, 1925.

Lorenzo Sabine, The Amsrioan loyalists, Boston, 1847.

Wilbur l-l. Siebert and Florence E. Gillian, The Loyeiists in Prince

, commenced June 16, 1084.

FAQ! THIRTEEN _.

NOTICE

of Dissolution

NOTICE is llereby given that the partnership lately subsist- ing between us, the undersigned Eldon Huestis and Kenneth Huestis, carrying on business os Taxi Drivers, under the firm name of “Huestie‘s Taxi" in the Town of Sumensrside, hos this day been dissolved by mutual consent, so far os regards the said Kenneth Huestis, who. retires from the Finn. ‘

The Business in future will be carried on under the some name Huestie's Taxi by the said Eldon Huestis, who will payund discharge all debts and liabilities and receive ell moneys payable to the said ﬁrm.

DATED at Summersids this l9th day of February I948.

ELDON HUESTIS KENNETH HUESTIS

Edward Island. Royal Society Report. 1910.

Claude H. Van Tyne. The Loyaliots in the American Revolution.

Census by Sleur do la looiue 1752. Canadian Archives Report, 1905, Vol. ll, Aippx. A. part 1.

'1‘. Wlatson Smith, History of the Methodist Church within the Ter- ritoriea oi the Lute Conference of Eastern British America. Vol. 1, Halli-ax, Methodist Book Room, 1877. Vol. 2, Halifax, Briggs, 1890.

John Wesley, A Collection oi’ Hymns for the use of People called Methodists. Iondon, 1880.

_ D. W. Johnson, History of Meihodlsm in Eastern British America, Slokvllle.

John Harris} Francis Meﬂicrall and His Work in Prince Edward Island. lacs.

Rev. George Patterson, Memoir of In. James Maoﬂregor, D.D., Halifax, MaoKiniey, 1859.

Rev. Matthew Ritchie, A ltlemolr o! the late William Black, Wes- leyan Minister. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Haliiax, 1839.

John T. Melilsh. Outlines of the History oi’ Melhodiam in Char- lcttciown Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, i888.

Henry Smith, Methodists in Prince Edward Idand from Past and Present oi’ Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, ic/wen, (190671.

h] ‘lltev. John Maclieod, History o! Presbyterlanlsm on Prince Edward an .

Rev. Charles Churchill, Memorials of Mlaions-ry Liie in Nova Booth, London. 1846. _

George H. Cornish, Cyolopeedis o! Methodists: in Canada from 179i io1874. Toronto.

Gwvge O. Huestil. A Manuel c! Methodism. 1&6,

John J. Sidey, Overcoming, Or the Victory of The Gospel, The Centennial of the Bedeque Baptist Church 1926. Published by Bedeque Baptist Church, 1928. ' '

M. Lamont. Rev. I), lllacbonild. Glimpses o! His Liie and Times, 1902. ‘ 1". A. Wiahtmen, A Twentieth Century Souvenir o! Bedeque Method- isln. 1901. .

Abstract of the Proceedings before the Land Commissioners Court lwlli during the Summer or 1880 in Prince Edward Island, Charlotte- town. 1862.

George O. Huestis. Memorials of Wesleyan Missionaries and Min- isters, Heliiax, Mclleb, 1872.

MAGAZINIG AND NEWSPAPERS

George Jackson, Memoir of Mr. Nathaniel Wright, Senior, of Be- deque, Prince Edward Island, Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, London. Deoemcbr, 1826, (pp. 794-798).

Missionary Correspondence, in Weeieyarcitieehodise. Magazine, i808,

i».

CHAIGE, TIE UNITED CHURCH 0i‘ CANADA. 1948 Thomas Moyse, James Henderson.

csmeron, Wilrred Craig.

1810. 1817, 1818, 1810, 1820, 18.26, 1826. Nova Sootla and New Brunswick Wesleyan Methodist Maurine. 1832.

Wesleyan. or Provincial Wesleyan, Rallies weekly. INK-IND. lili- 52. 1800-1890.

“Senexﬁ Old Times and Now, Charlottetown Guardian, October ll to October 26, 1982.

Ada. MacLeod, Some Loyslists oi Prince Edward Island. Dalhousie Re- view, Haliiax, Nova. Scotia, October, 1930.

L. U. Fowler, Bedeque and It's People, iour articles in Prince Id.- ward Island Magazine, 1900.

H. H. Hooper, Bedeque and its People. two-articles in Prime ldwasid Island Macrame. 1000. ‘

Thomas Moysc, Early Days in Bedeque, '.I‘he_, United Cliurohsmss, Sackvllle, Feb. 28, 1938. .

William Callback, Historical Paper on the 50th Anniversary Beilequa» United Church. The United Churchmen, February 28, 1888.

The Islander, Charlottetown weekly. 1842-1871.

Prince Edward Island Register. Charlottetown weekly, 1888-1880. Royal Gazette, Charlottetown weekly, 1888-1852.

The Pioneer, Summerside weekly, i861, 1883-1808.

Speciﬁc historical articles in the Pioneer:

Growth o! the Strong Business Doc. I. 1395 David Rogers use! Son, Dec. l. 1N6 Around the shores o! Bay Dee. I. 106 Reminiscence oi’ Olden Days, Dee. IO. 1Q! Memories of Bsdeque .... .. . Jan. 18, 1&8 Shipbuilding In Bedeque. . Jan. 30. 1N6 a United Empire loyalist. Rb. I. 1088 Opening oi New Church rledeque) Jan..10. 18$

Royal Guette and Miscellany o! m. Ilnnl Jr at sou, enuresis- town, ("Published every fortnight by William A. Rind. Rims Printer‘). Royal Herald, Charlottetown iortnightly paper, 1805. January-Deb- ruary, 1808.

Hazel-ifs Gazette, Charlottetown weekly, 1082. Summerslde Journal (weekly) Octobe , ieilo-Qqoteniie, 180. The rroteltant Union, Charlottetown weekly, Jilly. IMO-July llll- __ The Examiner. Cilerlottetown daily. 18H.

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