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stationed: twelve have located, and one has died, sud- 

 denly; and fifteen are added. 



Sunday, 16. I preached. Thursday, we came 

 away. On our way we called on Hodges, Shaw, and 

 Saunderson, exhorting and praying with their fami- 

 lies. I enjoy great peace of mind. 



Sunday, 23. I preached in our chapel, fifty by sixty 

 feet, to a small congregation. Am I not a child, to 

 have been looking for summer? William Glenden- 

 ning and I met, and embraced each other in peace. I 

 visited Sister Perry, the former wife of^John King^ 

 Diieof the first Methodist preachers. After all rea- 

 sonable allowances for drawbacks, we cannot yet tell 

 all the good that was done by our Conference in 

 Raleigh, in 1811. We started away northward. 



North Carolina — Wednesday, October 19, 1814. 

 Rode to Boling's. Behold! Richard Bird came one 

 hundred miles to hasten us to camp-meeting away on 

 the bleak hills of Haywood. I was forced by misery to 

 retire to my room and bed at Boling's, but son John 

 held a meeting and preached. We came on the camp- 

 ground, in Haywood county, North Carolina, Friday, 

 21. Saturday I preached, and ordained W. Spann and 

 J. Evans deacons. 



Sabbath, 23. Ordained two elders, Thomas Bird 

 and Samuel Edney, after preaching. In our tent we 

 contrived a hearth and had a fire. Monday we visited 

 the house of Richard Bird. 



Tuesday, 25. I preached in the house of the father, 

 Benjamin Bird; there was much feeling manifested. 

 We collected liberally on the mite subscription to help 

 the suffering ministry. I had for twenty years past 

 wished to vist the Cove; it is done, and I have seen 

 my old, tried friends, dear Richard and Jonah Bird, 



