The General Commission on Archives and History's own landmark record for John Street United Methodist Church documents that Philip Embury, an Irish Methodist immigrant, began preaching again at his cousin Barbara Heck's urging and held the first Methodist society meeting in New York City in 1766, that the growing congregation met in rented rooms before purchasing land on John Street, and that it dedicated Wesley Chapel there in 1768, the first Methodist meeting house built in the American colonies.
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Reliability Tier1
The General Commission on Archives and History's own landmark page, the United Methodist Church's official denominational archive, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable denominational archival records, used here for the 1766 founding and its place in early American Methodism, corroborated by John Street Church's own museum account of Philip Embury. Citation
PublisherGeneral Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church
URLhttps://gcah.org/landmarks/john-street-united-methodist-church/
Source Typechurch body
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