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Ledbetter is still fresh in the memory of the Church. 

 He was received on trial in 1787, and after seven yeai'3 

 of itinerant labor given to the Carolinas and Georgia, 

 he located and settled in the upper part of this cir- 

 cuit. He died full of years and full of faith, leaving 

 to his descendants the rich inheritance of an unblem- 

 ished Christian character. 



The preachers on the Broad River Circuit in 1787 

 were Richard Ivey, elder, John Mason, and Thomas 

 Davis. Mr. Ivey was a native of Sussex county, in 

 Virginia, and spent eighteen years in the itinerant 

 work. He traveled extensively through New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North and South 

 Carolina, and Georgia. He was a man of quick and 

 solid parts, and sought not himself any more than did 

 a Peddicord, a Gill, or a Tunnell— men who were well 

 known to our Connection as preachers who never 

 thought of growing rich by the gospel; their great 

 concern and business was to be rich in grace and use- 

 ful to souls. Exclusive of his patrimony, he was in 

 debt at his death. He died in his native county in 

 Virginia, in the latter part of the year 1795. Mr. 

 Mason began his itinerant life with Mr. Allen, in 1785, 

 and was admitted on trial the following year, and sent 

 to the Yadkin Circuit in North Carolina. His col- 

 league, Mr. Davis, was in the first year of his minis- 

 terial labors. Like their predecessor, Stephen John- 

 son, they gave one year each to South Carolina, and 

 it does not appear, indeed, that either of them took 

 an appointment afterward. During this one year, 

 however, they opened a fountain of usefulness which 

 continues to flow with ever-widening and deepening 

 current through the South Carolina Conference. 



In the State of Pennsylvania, in 1752, there was 



