44 History of Methodism 



Scriven, who began his ministerial labors in the prov- 

 ince as early as 1683, and continued them till his death 

 in 1713. The Rev. Mr. Scriven was succeeded by the 

 Rev. Mr. Peart, after whom the Rev. Thomas Simmons 

 took charge of the Church till his death, January 31, 

 1749. The Rev. Isaac Chandler, a native of Bristol in 

 England, gathered a Church on Ashley River in 1736. 

 The Baptist Church on Welch Neck was founded in 

 1738, and the pastor of the Baptist Church on Edisto 

 Island, the Rev. Mr. Tilly, died there in 1744. Other 

 Churches were formed by the Baptists in George- 

 town, Colleton, and some of the maritime islands, and 

 in 1776 their number amounted to about thirty. A 

 subdivision of the Baptists, known as the Arian, or 

 General Baptists, was formed into a Church in Charles- 

 ton in 1735, but the society became extinct about the 

 year 1787. 



The Quakers, or Friends, emigrated at an early date 

 to this province, and in 1696 had a small meeting- 

 house in Charleston. In 1750 a colony of them from 

 Ireland, under the guidance of Robert Milhouse and 

 Samuel Wiley, located themselves on the spot where 

 Camden now stands — called at first Pine-tree — and 

 erected a house of worship, which remained until the 

 Revolution. 



The German Protestants associated for worship un- 

 der the Rev. Mr. Luft, in 1752, and built St. John's 

 Church in Charleston in 1759. A considerable colony 

 from Germany and Switzerland settled in 1735, in sev- 

 eral parts of Orangeburg — so called in honor of the 

 Prince of Orange — and had for their minister the Rev. 

 John Ulrich Giessendanner, who died in 1738. He was 

 succeeded by his nephew, John, Giessendanner, who 

 after a season accepted ordination from the Bishop of 



