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Calvin Flint was a circuit rider within the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1818, Flint was assigned to the St. Lawrence circuit. That year, membership in the Episcopal church increased by 42 people on that circuit.[1] In 1819, he was reassigned to the Augusta circuit, where he rode alongside Robert Jeffers and Renaldo M. Everts. Membership in the Episcopal church increased by 105 on the Augusta circuit that year.[2] In 1820, he was assigned to the newly created Rideau circuit, which saw no increase in membership.[3] In 1821, he was assigned to the Bay of Quinte circuit, where he rode alongside Robert Jeffers.[4] Jeffers left the church, and Flint preached mostly in Kingston, neglecting the outlying areas. Membership in the church dropped from one hundred sixty five to fifty one.[5] In 1822, Flint was assigned to the Hallowell circuit.[6] A Methodist revival took place on the Hallowell circuit that year, at the farm of the Dempsey brothers of Ameliasburgh, and the first Methodist class was set up on the circuit in its wake.[7] Church membership on the circuit increased by 32 that year.[8]
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[edit]- Carroll, John (1869). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. II. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office.