NOTICES OF EARLY METHODISM IN
IRELAND.
BY THE REV. JOSEPH W. McKAY.
...METHODISM was introduced into that part of the
parish of Clones situate in Fermanagh about the year
1768. About the same time it obtained a footing in
the town of Clones, where Richard Kelso and John Kerr,
respectable tradesmen, were among the first members
of the Society. The former entertained Mr. Wesley in
1775; and about 1790 a son of his emigrated to America,
where he become an esteemed member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in the city of Baltimore....