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The appointments for the Peclee Circuit this year 

 (1786) were Beverly Allen, elder, Jeremiah Mastin, and 

 Hope Hull. "At the Conference (1786) held at Salis- 

 bury I was appointed," says Mr. Allen, " to take 

 charge of Pedee and Santee circuits, in the former 

 of which we had a blessed ingathering of souls, and in 

 the latter God set a few seals to my feeble labors. I 

 spent some time also in North Carolina, where we had 

 very happy meetings — some falling to the earth, and 

 others crying to God to have mercy upon their souls." 

 Mr. Mastin was received on trial into the traveling 

 connection in 1785, and was sent to the Williamsburg 

 Circuit in Virginia. After traveling the Pedee Cir- 

 cuit one year, he gave three years in succession to the 

 Holston country, and located in 1790. His successful 

 labors on this circuit were long and gratefully remem- 

 bered, and Mastin became a family name in house- 

 holds awakened and converted through his instrumen- 

 tality. Hope Hull was a native of Maryland, a class- 

 mate in the ministry of Mr. Mastin, and was appointed 

 the first year to the Salisbury Circuit in North Caro- 

 lina. Dr. Coke says: 



Mr. Hull is young, but is indeed a flame of fire. He appears 

 always on the stretch for the salvation of souls. Our only fear con- 

 cerning him is that the sword is too keen for the scabbard — that he 

 lays himself out in work far beyond his strength. Two years ago he 

 was sent to a circuit in South Carolina which we were almost ready 

 to despair of; but he, with a young colleague (Mastin) of like spirit 

 with himself, in one year raised that circuit to a degree of impor- 

 tance equal to that of almost any in the Southern States. 



His popularity in the Pedee country was unbounded, 

 and his name, like that of Mastin, was perpetuated by 

 incorporation as a family name in many households. 

 Edward Crosland, of Green Pond Church, was so par- 

 tial to both the preachers that he named a son Mastin 



