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to orders until the next General Conference of the white brethren; but were not able to come to any decision on either side. They received letters from various parts, written by our coloured brethren, advising and recommending, according to their ideas and judgment, how to proceed at this critical and very perplexing moment; but these letters served mostly to increase perplexity of mind, being none of them to the point, and therefore could not render any satisfaction.
About this time, John Dungy left the city of New- York, and went to New-Haven, to reside. He had not been long there, before information was received in New- York, that he had applied for and received preaching license from the white Methodist Episcopal Church, and that he was endeavouring to persuade the society there, of coloured people, to submit themselves to that government, which caused some unpleasant feelings among them there, as the case relative to our government remained yet unsettled.
Among other perplexities and dissatisfaction in regard to the conduct of our coloured people, manifesting instability, we mention another, viz., that the Trustees of the Asbury Church, contrary to the expectation of the official members of Zion Church, had granted the use of their church to the Allenites, to hold their yearly Conference, which was to take place in June next.
On the 15th of May, 1822, Abraham Thompson, Christopher Rush, Leven Smith, William Carman, Timothy Eatto and Samuel Bird, embarked for the second African
