42 History of Methodism 



alist), of Charleston; the Rev. Josiah Smith, of Cain- 

 hoy; the Rev. John "Witlierspoon, of James's Island, 

 with perhaps the Rev. Mr. Turnbull, of John's Island; 

 and the Rev. William Porter (Congregationalist), of 

 Wappetaw. Other Presbyterian Churches were or- 

 ganized at Wiltown, on Edisto Island, Beaufort, Wad- 

 malaw, and at JacEsonborough. 



In 1731 twelve families, chiefly natives of Scotland, 

 left the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Bassett to form the 

 Scotch Church, or the first Presbyterian Church of 

 Charleston. The separation was not fully effected 

 until their house, which was a wooden building, and 

 stood near the site of the present church, was finished, 

 in 1734. Their first minister was the Rev. Hugh 

 Stewart. The Rev. Josiah Smith, the grandson of 

 Landgrave Thomas Smith, who was governor of the 

 colony in 1693, was called from the Church at Cain- 

 hoy May 14, 1734, and settled in Charleston as the 

 colleague of the Rev. Mr. Bassett, in the pastorship 

 of the Independent Church. He was a man of active 

 character and ardent piety, and became the warm 

 friend and able defender of George Whitefield. 



On the 22d of October, 1695, the Rev. Joseph Lord, 

 a native of Massachusetts, and a graduate of Harvard 

 College in the class of 1691, was duly set apart and 

 ordained to the gospel ministry; and a Congregational 

 Church was organized, with him for its pastor, as a mis- 

 sionary church for Carolina. They set sail on the 14th 

 of December, in two vessels, and about the middle of 

 January, 1696, threading their way up the Ashley in 

 search of a convenient place for settlement, they se- 

 lected a spot in the midst of an unbroken wilderness, 

 twenty miles from the dwellings pf any whites, which 

 they called Dorchester, after the nan e of the town in 



