EV. JOHN ROBERTSON united with the Methodists in 1784, and is recorded as located in 1787 and withdrawn in 1798. He was a co-laborer with James O'Kelly in opposing Methodist despotism. At the Manakintown Conference in Powhatan county, Virginia, the name Republican Methodist" was adopted as the [38] distinctive title for the new Church, which name he is said to have held to, with Edward Almond and Thomas Hardy, and would not accept the name Christian Church as adopted by the Conference at Lebanon in Burry county, in 1794. Chaney Chapel, one of the churches of the Republican Methodists, was still in existence in 1809. It is possible that those in existence at the time of the organization of the Methodist Protestant church united with it.

      It is stated that he split off from the Christian Church and became the head of a sect, but such is not the fact except that he held to the name of Republican Methodist as at first adopted.

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