Re: Methodists and Presbyterians

[DaneBowen@aol.com]

As I note in the Way family history I published, when the Congregational 
Churches in SC and GA died out, the descendants of the New Englanders who 
brought them south tended to switch to the sect nearest in religious belief 
and practice.  In the case of the Way family in GA, they generally switched 
to the Presbyterian.  Indeed, some went to China as Presbyterian 
missionaries.  But in SC the Ways mostly became Methodists.  
       The founder of the Methodists, John Wesley, was briefly in GA soon 
after it's founding and probably accounted for some Methodists there. Later 
the Methodist Church appealed to people on the frontier.

Dane Bowen in Alexandria, Va., researching Bowen, Bacon, Carlton (Carleton), 
Luker, Sanders (Saunders), Chaudoin (Chaudoins), Maverick, Richey (Ritchie, 
Richie, Ritchey), Spence, Sumner, Way, and Wells families.
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