John Sayle, Wesleyan local preacher, one of the Manx emigrants who settled in Ohio.

He sailed in 1827 in the ship Ocean, which carried something like a hundred and twenty-nine Manx people, and he went out with Patrick Cannell, another local preacher.

They were part of the first real movement. Manx people had been going to America since the seventeenth century, but the Cleveland district was opened only in 1826, when three families arrived: William and Eleanor Kelly, Patrick and Ann Tear, and William and Mary Kneen, with seven children between them. The next year something like seventy families, about two hundred people in all, followed them into Ohio. The names that took root there are a roll of the Island: Crellin, Shimmin, Kaighin, Cowley, Collister, Gelling, Kermeen, Monier, Mylchreest, Carran, Kewley, Lewin, Bridson, Crow, Killip, Cain, Corkill, Looney, Clucas and Kneen.

The settlers organised early. A Manx Society was founded at Cleveland in 1851 by James Christian, John Corlett, William K. Corlett, William Cubbon and William Brew, to assist and take care of the poor immigrant from the Isle of Man who came with an empty pocket or in feeble health, and it holds an honoured place among the pioneer bodies of its kind.