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lodged at Deacon Tarrant's. On Friday we crossed 

 Saluda at Wilson's Ferry, and rode fifteen miles to 

 Thomas Willingham's, upon the Indian lands. 



Saturday, 16. Preached at Nash's meeting-house, 

 in Pendleton county, on Col. i. 27. Mr. James and 

 family are not in fellowship with us, but are our most 

 kind friends; we were used in the very best manner, 

 and this was more abundantly acceptable; friends in 

 need are friends indeed. 



Sunday, 17. We had love-feast and sacrament; my 

 subject, 2 Peter ii. 9. 



Monday, 18. Crossed the Savanna^ at the Chero- 

 kee Ford. 



After an extended visit to Georgia, he arrived in 

 Charleston by way of Augusta, on Saturday, Decem- 

 ber 28. 



Sunday, 29. Preached in the Old Church (Cumber- 

 land) on Psalm cxviii. 24, 25. 



Wednesday, January 1, 1800. We began our Con- 

 ference in Charleston; twenty-three members present. 

 I had select meetings with the preachers each even- 

 ing, who gave an account of the dealings of God with 

 their own souls, and of the circuits they supplied the 

 past year. 



Saturday, 4. After determining, by a large major- 

 ity, that our next meeting together (by Divine per- 

 mission) should be in Camden, the Conference rose. 

 Slow moved the northern post on the eve of New- 

 year's-day, and brought the heart-distressing infor- 

 mation of the death of Washington, who departed this 

 life December 14, 1799. Washington, the calm, in- 

 trepid chief, the disinterested friend, first father and 

 savior of his country, under Divine protection and 

 direction. A universal cloud sat upon the faces of 



