A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Volume IV.

The Oneida conference was formed at the General Conference of 1828,
making in all nineteen annual conferences to be attended by five
bishops. As, however, the health of Bishop McKendree was very feeble,
the labor of the superintendency devolved chiefly on the other four
bishops; and as Bishop George died early in 1828, the remaining three
bishops had work enough on their hands for the three succeeding years.
The manner, however, in which they fulfilled their high and weighty
trusts gave gen...