Excerpt from History of the Late East Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church The total membership for the Conference at this date was ten thousand six hundred and sixty-three. In 1816, six years after the organization of the old Genesee Conference, the region west of Genesee River embraced two circuits, Caledonia and New Amsterdam, and reported seven hundred members. The whole Conference reported at that time (1816) thirty-seven cir cuits, fifty-eight preachers, and fifteen thousand two hundred and twenty-two members, exclusive of Canada. The fact that not until the twentieth annual session of the Genesee Conference was there found a society west of Genesee River of sufficient strength to entertain that body, was entirely due to the comparative lateness of settlements in that beautiful region. Such an entertainment was of more financial sig nificance then than now, and both then and now furnishes monumental evidence of the faith of the Church in her doctrines, and of love and confidence toward her leaders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.