Philip Embury

[1] His parents were members of the colony of Germans that emigrated from the Palatinate to Ireland early in the eighteenth century, and in which John Wesley labored with great success.The colony had formed from Protestant Germans forced to abandon their farms on the Rhine due to French Catholic raids and a harsh winter.In 1709, Queen Anne of England accepted the refugees, settling a group of families in Catholic Ireland to boost the Protestant presence.[3] He organized among Irish emigrants at Ashgrove, near Camden Valley, the first Methodist society within the bounds of what became the flourishing and influential Troy Conference.In 1832, his remains were removed to Ashgrove churchyard, and in 1866 to Woodland Cemetery, Cambridge, New York,[6] where in 1873 a monument to him was unveiled, with an address by Bishop Matthew Simpson.
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