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account of slavery, and removed to Illinois. He was 

 the second Methodist preacher in that territory, being 

 preceded by Joseph Lillard, who entered in 1793. Mr. 

 Clark was the first man that preached the gospel west 

 of the Mississippi Kiver — in 1798. 



Abner Henley was admitted on trial in 1791, and 

 gave two years to the Sonth Carolina Conference; the 

 remainder of his itinerant labors were devoted to 

 North Carolina. He located in 1796, but was appoint- 

 ed to Salisbury in 1800. 



John Russell entered the traveling connection in 

 1789, and devoted nine years to South Carolina, and 

 one to Virginia. 'He located in 1799. 



Richard Posey was admitted in 1794, and located in 

 1799. His itinerant life of five years was given to South 

 Carolina. 



George Clark gave nine years of itinerant labor to 

 the South Carolina Conference, entering in 1792, and 

 locating in 1801. He settled in Union District, and 

 lived to an advanced age. He was a good man, char- 

 acterized by plainness of dress and manner, though 

 possessed of wealth, and did much to advance the in- 

 terests of the Church. 



John King was admitted in 1794, and located in 

 1803, dividing his nine years of itinerant labor be- 

 tween the Carolinas and Virginia. 



Benjamin Tarrant entered in 1792, and gave two 

 years to the Burke Circuit in Georgia, and two to the 

 Edisto Circuit in South Carolina. He located in 1796. 



James Douthet was admitted on trial in 1793, and 

 located in 1803. He gave six years to South Carolina, 

 one to Virginia, and three to North Carolina. 



Coleman Carlisle joined the itinerancy in 1792, and 

 was sent to Broad River Circuit; in 1793, to Tar River; 



