Such petitions came from C.C.Pinckney, Charles Boring, and Lewis Morris.[1] Two stations were established in 1829 and two additional ones in 1833.

Thereafter the Church founded one or two others every year until 1847 when there were seventeen missions conducted by twenty-five preachers.

At the death of Bishop Capers in 1855 the Methodists of South Carolina had twenty-six such establishments, which employed thirty-two preachers, ministering to 11,546 communicants of color.

The missionary revenue raised by the local conference had increased from $300 to $25,000 a year.[2] [Footnote 1: Wightman, _Life of William Capers_, p.

296.] [Footnote 2; _African Repository_, vol.xxiv., p.