EV. JOHN HATLEY (Hartley) was ordained to the office of Elder at Pleasant Grove, in Chatham county, North Carolina, on the 4th Lord's day in April, 1835, the following Elders officiating: Littlejohn Utley, Henry B. Hayes, and Frederick Rollins. The Conference this year met at Moore Union, in Moore county, on 2nd to 5th of October. At this Conference he was appointed one of a committee to arrange the business of Conference. He was also appointed to take part in the quarterly meetings at Pleasant Spring, Sweet Spring, Pleasant Grove, Moore Union, and Bethel, the coming year with other ministers. He was at the North Carolina Christian Conference held at Pleasant Grove in Chatham county, in 1836. In 1840, Elder John Hatley was chosen to preach the introductory discourse at the next Conference. [199] In 1845, he attended the North Carolina and Virginia Conference at Apple's chapel as a fraternal messenger from the North Carolina Conference. In 1854, he became a member of the North Carolina and Virginia Conference, when the two Conferences met as one at O'Kelly's chapel, in Wake county, North Carolina.

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