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CHAPTER VI. 

ADDENDA.

CONDENSED BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE VARIOUS BISHOPS OF THE A. M. E. CHURCH, AND OF SEVERAL MEMBERS OF CONFERENCE, TOGETHER WITH REPORTS OF PRESIDING ELDERS.

The matters presented under this head were, for some unaccountable reason, omitted from the manuscript as originally sent to the printer, but as they are of too much interest and importance to be excluded from this work they are here inserted that our readers may not be deprived of anything material to the completeness of the history.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

RT. REV. RICHARD ALLEN,

FIRST BISHOP OF THE A. M. E. CHURCH,

In the United States of America, and founder of this church, was born in the city of Philadelphia, Pa., in 1760. At the age of seventeen he experienced religion and joined the Methodist Society, in the State of Delaware. At the age of twenty-two he commenced his ministerial labors, which were extended through various parts of the Middle States. In 1787 he returned to his native city, where his unexampled labors will redound to posterity. He was instrumental, in the hands of the Lord, in enlightening many thousands of his brethren, the descendants of Africa, and was the founder of the First African Church in America, which was erected in Philadelphia in 1793. He was ordained

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