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Wayman life and work shaping early American Methodist mission
The narrative covers Rev. Wayman’s early literacy, travels with his mother to the Eastern Shore in 1844, and his preaching in Philadelphia and Denton. It notes his ministry amid free Black communities, emancipation-era patrols, church-building efforts in Washington and Georgetown, and his leadership during the Baltimore Conference era and Civil War shortages. It highlights his role in forming Ebenezer Church, St. John's Chapel, and the Union Bethel Church, plus his interactions with prominent figures like Secretary of the Navy John Y. Mason and Bishop Payne.
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Baltimore Sun
A. W. Wayman
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Galveston
Texas
Baltimore
Carsicana
Wayman
Tuckahoe Neck
Caroline county
Philadelphia
Maryland
General Harrison
M.E
Princeton
New Jersey
West Chester
Salem
Trenton
Washington city
Port Deposit
no church
Frederick
Baltimore city
Methodist Episcopal Church
Harrison
Hoe
Alexander
Delaware
Smyrna
M. E
Denton
John Y. Mason
Navy
Washington
Union Bethel Church
Abigail Nugent
Ebenezer Church
Georgetown
D. C
M. E. Church
Bethel Church
Bishop Payne
Bishop Wayman
W. H. Hunter
colored troops
Bute Street
Norfolk
Virginia
J. P. Campbell
South
South Carolina
Wade
Ohio
Camden
Henry Cotdater
New Haven
Conn
Beauregard
episcopal
Middle
New England
North Carolina
Richmond
Congress
H.R. Revels
M. E.Church
United States
Mississippi
Tuckahoe
Caroline
county
Springfield
lls
Pacific coast