Cloud, Robert

Cloud, Robert, a Methodist Episcopal preacher, began his ministry in 1785, and filled the following appointments: 1785, Trenton; 1786, Newark; 1787, Elizabethtown; 1788, Long Island; 1789 and 1790, New York; 1791 and 1792, presiding elder of the territory in and about New York city; 1793, Chester, and in 1794 located, after which no trace of his life remains. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1785-94; Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, vii, 225; Stevens, Hist. of the M. E. Church, it, 57.