Wesleyan Methodist Church of Canada
Hastings Mission


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Hastings is in Northumberland Co, but on the border with Asphodel Twp. Many Peterborough Co residents would attend church there and it was a centre for administering churches in Peterborough Co. Of the places mentioned below, only Hastings and Westwood are considered in this book. The other places are assumed to be in Northumberland Co.


            1863                                        created from parts of Norwood Circuit and Percy Circuit and is in Cobourg District

            1863                                        consists of at least Hastings, Flemings, Lobbs (WMMS)

            1863 - 1864                            Daniel A Perrin

            1864                                        church built

            1865                                        Seymour united with it for one year. Consists of at least Hastings, Oil Springs, Westwood, Campbellford, Church, Lonts, Pethericks (WMMS)

            1865                                        Robert Mark, Isaac Weldon

            1866 - 1868                            William Short

            1866                                        consists of at least Hastings, Johnstons, Westwood (WMMS)

            1867 - 1868                            consists of at least Hastings, Johnstons, Westwood, Lobbs, Flemings (WMMS)

            1869 - 1871                            Robert Godfrey

            1869 - 1870                            consists of at least Hastings, Westwood, Lobbs, Flemings, Hawkins (WMMS)

            1871                                        consists of at least Hastings, Westwood, Lobbs, Flemings (WMMS)

            1872 - 1873                            Robert Robinson

            1872 - 1873                            consists of at least Hastings, Westwood, Lobbs, Flemings, Johnstons (WMMS)

            1873                                        brick church built for “one of the country appointments” (WMMS)

            1874                                        to Methodist Church of Canada