Wetmore's letter in September of the same year he writes: "As to the state of my parish, nothing very remarkable has happened since my last, but I find my cares and labors much increased by having two (iirobably one at White Plains and the other at Rye) Independent Methodist teachers settled by that party in my parish, besides exhorters and itinerants that frequently call people together and instil wild and entliusiastic notions into them ; they have made much confusion in the remote parts of my parish, but chiefly among those who always were Dissenters."

Only two years had elapsed since his first letter comjilaining of the corrupting influences of the new sect of Methodists, and already this " wild sect " had become organized, and had two " Independent Methodist teachers " settled in his jjarish. He called them " teachers ; " he would not call them " ministers," for he recognized no minister outside of the Church of England, and these were " settled " in his parish.

Although no record has been preserved of that little society, with the name of the teacher or of the members who composed the class or congregation, or in what commodious farm-house they assembled for worship, the fact that such a teacher and .such a class or congiegation. in an organized shape, existed in White Plains in 1743 cannot be controverted ; and this was seventeen years before Philip Emlniry and Barbara Heck came to America, and twenty-three years before Philip I^mbury organized his class-meeting or society in his house in Barrack St., New York ■City, which the learned historian. Dr. Abel Stevens, states was the foundation of Methodism in America.