...It is probable that the Rev. Joseph
Pilmore, one of Rev. John Wesley's first missionaries to America, preached in
Uwchlan twp in 1772. In 1774 the preachers made an appointment in
Uwchlan, where a society was raised up near the Little Eagle tavern, where
Benson's chapel was built in 1781. This meeting was the parent of
Batten's or Hopewell Church which survived after Benson's Chapel was gone.
The lot on which the church stood was still in possession of the Methodists,
in the late 1800s, and there were a few graves....one likely buried there is
Isaac Rollins, the first Methodist preacher that people in this area ever
heard.