The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . 87 there weretwo circuits with ninety , who was superseded in the follow-ing year, became a strong adherent ofOKelly s and did much to promoteschism in the Cumberland circuit, whitherhe moved. His successor in Kentuckywas Francis Poythress, who, in the 17-H>to 1800 decade, presided over all theAnnual Confere
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . 87 there weretwo circuits with ninety , who was superseded in the follow-ing year, became a strong adherent ofOKelly s and did much to promoteschism in the Cumberland circuit, whitherhe moved. His successor in Kentuckywas Francis Poythress, who, in the 17-H>to 1800 decade, presided over all theAnnual Conferences which were held inKentucky, and had a general supervisionof the work. Bishop Asbury, who vis- 310 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF METHODISM. ited the territory in May, 1790, accom-panied by Whatcoat and Hull, foundBrother Poythress much alive to God,and formed a high conception of hisworth. The field, he noticed, was as yetin other hands. At a Conference heldin Lexington he ordained as elders,Wilson Lee, Thomas Wilson, and Bar-nabas McHenry; and raised a subscrip-tion in land and money for a school to benamed Bethel. It was about this time that a Virginianfamily, named Cartwright, in which themother was a pious Methodist, migratedacross the frontier into the new and. THE OLD STONE; HOUSE. GUILFORD. CONNECTICUT,The oldest house in the United States, built 1639. beautiful country of canes and a band for mutual protection,about a hundred families moved west-ward together, and rarely a day passedbut they saw evidences of killing andscalping by the savages who roamedthrough the great forests. Of their ownparty, seven families, who had impru-dently separated from the main body,were murdered, with the exception ofone man, who escaped. The life was oneof hard toil and incessant danger, andfor long the communities had to be con-centrated in forts for mutual the year 1793 the Cartwrightfamily were settled in Lincoln county, on the Hanging Ford of Dicks ri
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