July 16, 1806 — to Alexander M’caine
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
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Alexander M’Caine was one of the three preachers assigned to Baltimore City in 1805. He was getting restless because he was unable to support his family. Jesse Lee in his A Short History of the Methodists says that M’Caine retired in 1806 to support his family. However, in 1815 he reentered the traveling connection and continued until 1821, when he finally retired from the Methodist Episcopal Church ministry. He frequently traveled with Asbury. After Asbury’s death he became one of the reformers and later one of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church. He served as one of its leaders in South Carolina and Alabama, and served as secretary of the General Conference. He was one of a group of reformers who were expelled from the church for agitation. He died in 1856 in his ninetieth year. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
July 16, 1806
[TO ALEXANDER M’CAINE]1
My dear Son:
If I loved thee less, I should not put myself to pain and scribbling. I love you, you know. I have always manifested it. Your honest bluntness I approve, &c.
As ever,
F. ASBURY
Alexander M’Caine, A Defence of the Truth, 15
Notes (1)
- M’Caine was known for his “bluntness.” He was a great apologist for the reformers. M’Caine located in 1806, as did George Roberts. Their names are shown under those located in the Baltimore Conference. (See Colhouer, Sketches of the Founders of the Methodist Protestant Church, for M’Caine’s sketch, 90-119. See letters March 29, 1799; April 30, 1815; July 1, 1815; also preface to M’Caine’s Letters.) ↩