Scope and content

One volume containing quarterly conference minutes for the Bloomfield and Geneseo circuits combined (August 1829-July 1831), the Livonia and Lima circuits combined (October 1831-September 1835), the Lima and West Mendon circuits (December 1835-June 1836) and the Livonia circuit (1837-1854, 1859, 1869-1880). Minutes for the latter are sometimes titled "Livonia and Hemlock Lake). Livingston, Monroe and Ontario Counties.

Abstract The journal records the travels and work of William Colbert as a Methodist circuit rider with lengthy and detailed descriptions of towns and settlements visited, texts delivered in sermons, travel and weather conditions, Colbert's health, opinions regarding the progress of Methodism in New York, conferences and general meetings attended, and reflections on his own spiritual progress as a Methodist minister, size and spiritual condition of classes and congregations visited and baptisms,...