Chapter XXVIII

A Missionary—Chaplain at Niagara—Pastors to the settlers—Chaplain
to Legislature—Visits Grand river—Officiates—A land speculator—
Receives a pension, £50—1823—Rev. Mr. Pollard—At Amherstburgh—
Mr. Langhorn—A missionary—Little education—Useful—Odd—On Bay
Quinté in Ernesttown—Builds a church—At Adolphustown—Preaches at
Hagerman’s—Another church—A diligent pastor—Pioneer preacher
around the bay—Christening—Marrying—Particular—His appointments—
Clerk’s Fees—Generosity—Present to bride—Faithful to sick calls—
Frozen feet—No stockings—Shoe buckles—Dress—Books—Peculiarities—
Fond of the water—Charitable—War of 1812—Determined to leave
Canada—Thinks it doomed—Singular notice—Returns to Europe—His
library—Present to Kingston—Twenty years in Canada—Extract from
Gazette—No one immediately to take his place—Rev. John Bethune—
Died 1815—Native of Scotland—U. E. Loyalists—Lost Property—
Chaplain to 84th Regiment—A Presbyterian—Second Legal Clergymen
in Upper Canada—Settled at Cornwall—Children—The Baptists—Wyner—
Turner—Holts Wiem—Baptists upon river Moira—First Chapel—How
built—Places of preaching—Hayden’s Corners—At East Lake—The
Lutherans—Rev. Schwerdfeger—Lutheran settlers—County Dundas—
First church east of Kingston—Rev. Mr. Myers lived in
Marysburgh—Marriage—His log church—Removes to St. Lawrence—
Resigns—To Philadelphia—Mr. Weant—Lives in Ernesttown—Removes to
Matilda—Not supported—Secretly joins the English church—
Re-ordained—His society ignorant—Suspicious—Preaching in shirt
sleeves—Mr. Myers’ return, by sleigh—Locking church door—The
thirty-nine articles—Compromise—Mr. Myers continues three years
a Lutheran—He secedes—The end of both Seceders—Rev. I. L.
Senderling—Rev. Herman Hayunga—Rev. Mr. Shorts—Last Lutheran
minister at Ernesttown, McCarty—Married 267