24 History of Methodism 



Phenix brought a number of Dutch emigrants from 

 New York, who first built and occupied Jamestown 

 on James Island, but afterward spread themselves 

 through the other settlements. 



Sir John Yeamans, having left his colony on the 

 Cape Fear and returned to Barbadoes, soon after (1671) 

 joined the colony established by William Sayle, and 

 brought with him the first negro slaves who were ever 

 seen in Carolina. He was appointed governor of the 

 province April 19, 1672; and the colonists whom he 

 had planted on the Cape Fear, following him to the 

 Ashley, the old settlement was deserted and relapsed 

 again into a wilderness. Small parties of emigrants 

 continued to come into the new colony by almost every 

 vessel, and the proprietaries sought by every means 

 in their power to add to their number, so that in 1682 

 the population amounted to about twenty-five hun- 

 dred. "At our being there (1680)," says Thomas Ash, 

 two years afterward, "there was judged to be one 

 thousand or twelve hundred souls; but the great num- 

 ber of families from England, Ireland, Barbadoes, 

 Jamaica, and the Caribbees, which daily transport 

 themselves thither, have more than doubled that 

 number." 



The plan of co-extending settlements and religious 

 instruction, by making the Church and minister ap- 

 j)endages to every town and place newly occupied, 

 was not common in Carolina, and for more than 

 twenty years from the planting of the colony divine 

 service was but irregularly performed, and almost en- 

 tirely confined to the city of Charleston. "Without 

 the advantages of public worship, and of schools for 

 the education of their children., the people, scattered 

 through a forest, were in great danger of sinking soon 



