[December 23, 1791] — to William Glendinning
ASB_VOL3.PDF, PDF page 138
William Glendinning, or Glendenning, was a very odd person. He had preached in the traveling connection for about ten years but had to give up because of mental aberrations. Evidently he worked to get back into the active ministry, as this letter indicates. [LANES, VIRGINIA]
[December 23, 1791]1
[TO WILLIAM GLENDINNING]2
I write in the presence of, and by the consent of Conference, to inform you that we do not look on you as being in connection with or under any direction from us. We cannot therefore make appointments for you, in our societies, or advise our people to hear you, knowing you are not under any legate authority but your own; and should you obtain countenance and authority from another denomination, it will not be ours. Yours,
FRANCIS ASBURY
JAMES O’KELLY
JN. WYNNE
JOHN METCALF
IRA ELLIS
JOSIAH ASKEW
ARCHER DAVIS
JOHN PAUP
DAN. STRINGER
W. MCKENDREE
JOHN EASTER
HUBBARD SAUNDERS
PHILIP COX
WM. SPENCER
JOHN BALDWIN
THOS. EASTER
JOHN FORE
RICE HAGGARD
JOHN BUXTON
DAN. SOUTHALL
BENJA. BARNES
Notes (2)
- This notice to William Glendinning seems to have been written from the Virginia Conference, which met at Lane’s Chapel, Sussex County, Virginia, on Friday, December 23, 1791. The preachers listed here were in that conference. (See also letter of November —, 1792.) Some preachers did not sign. ↩
- The Minutes show that William Glendinning was admitted to the ministry in 1776 and traveled until 1786, when his name is listed among those “who desist from traveling.” He was on the Brunswick Circuit, Virginia, in 1785 and developed a mania of some type. In 1784 he had been appointed to Nova Scotia but refused to go. At that conference he was refused ordination because of “want of gifts.” Asbury records in the Journal, Sunday, December 26, 1790, at Newcastle, Hanover County, Virginia: “William Glendinning spoke after me: I am clear he is not right in his head or heart, and am therefore resolved he shall speak no more at my appointments.” The Minutes show that he secured a pension in 1790 of £8 6s. 10d. (Jacob S. Payton.) ↩