Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A.
& U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968.  Fayette
County. The Methodist Episcopal Church. Page 446. 

JAMES HAW, in 1781, was the junior preacher in the Isle of Wight; and
afterwards traveled the South Branch, Amelia, Bedford, and Brunswick
circuits, all in Virignia. He spent five years in the itinerant ministry
in Kentucky -- in 1786 and 1787, as superintendent of the Kentucky
district, and also in 1788, but cojointly with Francis Poythress.  In 1789
he was in charge of the Lexington circuit, and in 1790 was transferred to
the Cumberland circuit in Tennessee.  At the close of this year's labor
his name appears, with eight others, in answer to the question, "Who are
under a location through weakness of body or family concerns?"  He settled
in Sumner county, Tennessee, where he preached as a local preacher until
1795, when he became dissatisfied and joined the O'Kelly branch of
Methodists (who, in 1792, had separated from the Methodist Episcopal
Church on the subject of episcopacy and the elective franchise).  In 1800
he attached himself to the Presbyterian church, and continued to preach
for several years - dying, as he had lived, a Christian.

Haw Poythress
=
Isle_of_Wight-VA Amelia-VA Bedford-VA Brunswick-VA Sumner-TN

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