Genealogy

THIS venerable man, now verging on eighty years, with a service in the ministry beyond a half-century, was a son of thunder in his prime, and of tireless zeal. He was a person of marked features and manner, tall, robust, brusque and positive, with "a face as the face of a lion." Even in his ashes the old fire often kindles. There is a fitness of things in such a veteran living near the training school of the sons of the

  Fragments from Inside the Memory Hole The Battle of Brooklyn, in August , and the capture of Fort Washington, in November, 1776, placed in possession of the British nearly four thousand prisoners; and this number was increased, by the arrest of private citizens suspected of complicity with the rebellion, to over five thousand, before the end of the year. The only prisons then existing in the city of New York were: the "New Jail," which still remains, in an entirely altered form, as the "Hall of Records," and the "Bridewell," which was located between the present City Hall and Broadway. These edifices proving entirely inadequate for the accommodation of this large number of captives – to whom they were unwilling to extend the privileges of parole – the British were compelled to turn three large sugar-houses, several of the Dissenting churches, the Hospital, and Columbia College, into prisons for their reception. These buildings, also, were

List of Names from British War Department List compiled by 'The Society Of Old Brooklynites' in 1888.* "This list of names was copied from the papers of the British War Department . There is nothing to indicate what became of any of these prisoners, whether they died, escaped, or were exchanged. The list seems to have been carelessly kept, and is full of obvious mistakes in spelling the names. Yet it shall be given just as it is, except that the names are arranged differently, for easier reference. This list of prisoners is the only one that could be found in the British War Department. What became of the lists of prisoners on the many other prison ships, and prisons, used by the English in America, we do not know." *Names marked are not from the list, but correspondence sent by descendants or others.

ONE name alone on the Conference roll goes back to the last century. James McAden was born on the 15th August, 1795. He is of the long list of preachers that North Carolina has contributed to our ranks. His birth-place is Caswell county. The Methodists held a two days meeting in 1810, near Milton, on Dan river. Young McAden, the grandson of a Presbyterian minister, with nearly all his relations of that church, was among the converts. In 1812 he began to preach. Asbury and McKendree were the

  REV. JAMES DRYBOROUGH LUMSDEN THIS leaf contains a recital of the "Acts" of an Apostle. Though the record of his deeds is somewhat of the brevity of Caesar's dispatch, it has also its victorious accent. Such a roll achievements under God, would have challenged the admiration of the chiefest of the sacred band in early Christianity. Paul could not have read of such long service, and with the grace of God abounding, in the conversion of hundreds and hundreds, without apostolic commendation.