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to visit Governor Thomas Broughton, and to deliver 

 the official letters sent by Governor Oglethorpe. Gov- 

 ernor Broughton lived in the parish of St. Johns, a 

 pleasant and healthy part of the country on the west- 

 ern branch of Cooper River. He was a worthy gentle- 

 man and serious Christian, and, coming to reside in 

 the parish soon after the church-building was com- 

 pleted, in 1711, very generously adorned it with a pul- 

 pit, reading-desk, pews, communion-table, and railing 

 round the chancel — all made of cedar. His residence 

 was about thirty miles from Charleston, and stood very 

 pleasantly on a little hill, with a vale on either side, in 

 one of which was a thick wood; the other was planted 

 with rice and Indian corn. Mr. Wesley utilized this 

 visit by gaining all the information in his power re- 

 specting the Churches. He learned that particular 

 interest had been shown in giving Christian instruc- 

 tion to the negroes in the parish of Goose Creek, 

 where a few years before the Rev. Mr. Ludlam had 

 admitted a number to baptism, and said, if their mas- 

 ters would heartily concur to forward so good a work, 

 all that were born in the country might, without much 

 difficulty, be instructed and received into the Church ; 

 and also in the parish of St. George, where the Rev. 

 Mr. Yarnod had baptized fifty negroes belonging to 

 Alexander Skeene. Mr. Wesley conceived at once a 

 desire to see this work in person, and set out the next 

 day to visit Mr. Skeene, who resided on his plantation 

 west of the Ashley River, and about twenty-eight miles 

 from Charleston ; but his horse breaking down, he was 

 obliged to forego the pleasure of the visit, and return 

 by the most direct route to the city. 



Charles Wesley, after spending eleven days in 

 Charleston, in agreeable and profitable Christian in- 



