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William Hammett, who, by faithful labor and patient 

 endurance of persecution, had also purchased to him- 

 self a good degree as a missionary in the West Indies, 

 came to Charleston with Dr. Coke, after the business 

 of the Conference had been completed, and the preach- 

 ers were in readiness to enter upon their new work. 

 He clamored for the appointment which had been 

 given to Mr. Parks, and pursued Bishop As bury to 

 Philadelphia and New York, with " a wonderful list 

 of petitioners " in his behalf. Restless under a firm 

 administration of discipline, he accused Bishops As- 

 bury and Coke of tyranny, and headed a secession 

 from the young Church of the city. His popularity 

 and influence enabled him to secure a lot of land on 

 the corner of Hasel street and Maiden Lane, and to 

 erect on it a spacious chapel, with an adjacent parson- 

 age and he proceeded to organize a Church of his own. 

 He called his chapel Trinity Church, and his people 

 " Primitive Methodists." This body continued a dis- 

 tinct Connection till after the death of their leader. 

 But alas! "man is born to trouble as the sparks fly 

 upward;" and these good people found that ecclesi- 

 astical difficulties followed them even into their " prim- 

 itive " asylum. It is believed that their highly talent- 

 ed leader found that he had undertaken a task to which 

 he was not adequate — the task of arranging and bind- 

 ing together the discordant materials which he had 

 gathered from the Church, and from the world. Suf- 

 fice it to say that before he went hence he had his 

 troubles among his flock. Many of them returned to 

 the fold where they had been formerly fed; some went 

 to other Churches, and not a few went back to the 

 world. After the death of Mr. Hammett, the congre- 

 gation was served by a Mr. Brazier, who had formerly 



