 He was joined in this meeting by Hugh and James Bourne and others.In October 1808 he preached his trial sermon with the Wesleyan Methodists and was duly appointed a local preacher; but, continuing to associate with the Bournes and to attend camp-meetings, his name was omitted from the preachers' plan in June 1810, and in September his quarterly ticket as a member of the society was withheld from him.After this he made common cause with the Bournes and James Crawfoot.