EV. JOHN LIVESAY, whose parents lived in Prince George county, was present at the organization of the Eastern Virginia Christian Conference, in 1818, though a preliminary meeting seems to have been held at Holy Neck which he attended. Whether this was the celebrated May meeting which is proverbial at that place, we have not been able positively to determine. But the name of the Conference was not decided upon till in 1819 at the first regular session held at Cypress chapel. Among the ministers who composed this Conference the following names appear: Burwell Barrett, Joshua Livesay, Mills Barrett, James Warren, Francis Williamson, Nathaniel P. Tatem, and Nelson Millar.

      This Conference met on the 25th of September, 1828, at the Union meeting house in Southampton county, and he was chosen to be the pastor of the Church at the Union chapel," in Southampton county. He was an excellent man, but was not noted as a writer; he was more reserved than his younger brother Joshua Livesay. As his name disappears from all records which have come to our hands bearing date before the year 1834, he must have died about this time. [95]

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