404 History of Methodism 



Spirit) to devote myself to the work of preaching the 

 gospel of Christ." 



As late in the season as past the middle of November 

 a camp-meeting was held at Eembert's (the second one 

 at the same place that year), becanse the people were 

 in the spirit of it; and for the special reason that the 

 bishops, Asbnry and McKendree, had appointed to 

 meet on official business which would occupy them 

 several days, at that time, at the house of their old 

 friend (the Gaius of those days) James Rembert, im- 

 mediately in the neighborhood, and they would attend 

 the meeting. And this being also the occasion of the 

 last quarterly-meeting for the Santee Circuit, at the 

 advice of Mr. Gassaway (Bishop Asbury also approv- 

 ing) Mr. Capers was licensed to preach, and was rec- 

 ommended to the Annual Conference to be admitted 

 on trial in the itenerancy. Accordingly, at the next 

 Conference, which was held at Liberty Chapel, in 

 Greene county, Georgia, December 26, 1808, he was 

 duly admitted, and was appointed to the Wateree 

 Circuit. The next year he was sent to the Pedee 

 Circuit, but at the second quarterly-meeting, which 

 was held in June, 1810, he was transferred from this 

 to the town of Fayetteville, in North Carolina, where 

 he found himself in the midst of excellent society, and 

 many efficient auxiliaries to both his comfort and use- 

 fulness. Of the origin of Methodism in this place he 

 gives the following interesting account: 



" The most remarkable man in Fayetteville when I 

 went there, and who died during my stay, was a negro 

 by the name of Henry Evans. I say the most remark- 

 able in view of his class, and I call him negro with un- 

 feigned respect. He was a negro; that is, he was of 

 that race, without any admixture of another. The 



