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or twelve years, notwithstanding the infirmities of a 

 feeble constitution, and preached a part of his time 

 beyond the Alleghanies. This was the only year given 

 to South Carolina. He died in 1812, in Maryland, and 

 rests at " Hinson's Chapel, near the great and good 

 William Gill." His death was most triumphant. 

 "Come, Lord Jesus! " he exclaimed; "come quickly, 

 and take my enraptured soul away. I am not afraid 

 to die. I long to be dissolved, and see my Saviour 

 without a dimming vail between. Death has lost its 

 sting." 



Michael Burclge was received on trial at this Con- 

 ference, and appointed to Waxhaw?- which embraced 

 the territory of the Catawba Indians, in whose relig- 

 ious welfare great interest was excited. "I wish," 

 says Bishop Asbury-j April 3, 1789, " to send an ex- 

 tra preacher to Waxhaws to preach to the Catawba 

 Indians. They have settled amongst the whites on a 

 tract of land twelve miles square." Mr. Burdge dili- 

 gently cultivated this field, and opened the way for 

 the Catawba Circuit, which was more fully formed by 

 Jonathan Jackson in 1790. A^ter laboring the next 

 year on Broad River, and the two following on Eclis- 

 to Circuit, he located in 1792. In 1808 he joined 

 Matthew P. Sturdevant, who responded to the call of 

 Bishop Asbury to go as a missionary to the white set- 

 tlements on the Tombigbee River, and at the end of 

 two years reported eighty-six Church-members — the 

 germ of all the subsequent growth of Alabama and 

 Mississippi Methodism. He subsequently filled with 

 fidelity and success divers appointments in Georgia 

 and the Carolinas, after which he disappears from the 

 records. 



Thomas Humphreys was born in Virginia, and was 



