A History Of The Rise Of Methodism In America - Media Sabda Org

Early in the present century, Mr. White Brown sold his possession in the Fork, and settled on Deer
Creek, in Ross county, Ohio. Here, Mr. Asbury visited him several times; and, after an acquaintance
of thirty-four years, parted with him in 1812, until they should meet in Paradise.
White Brown was a Methodist of distinction in Ohio. In 1813, Samuel Parker, the Cicero of
Western Methodist preachers, was laboring on Deer Creek Circuit; a camp meeting was held at
White Brown's, which was one of the most powerful ever held in the state: hundreds were awakened,
and converted to God. The best talents in the Western Conference were at this meeting: Parker,
Collins, Quinn, Cummins, Crume, Finley, Strange, and Hellums. The thousands of Methodist Israel
were there, from far and near, in Ohio; and hundreds and thousands long remembered the hallowed
scenes and associations of the Deer Creek camp meeting; nor are they forgotten by the dwellers in
the Upper Temple, who participated in them. In 1814, that remarkable youth, the Rev. H. B. Bascom,
began to itinerate on Deer Creek Circuit.
At Dover, Mr. Smithers was a chief man in the original society. Mr. Garrettson speaks of a
Church lady, with ten of her children, as belonging. Mrs. Ann Bassett joined soon after. Dr. Ridgely
was a leading Methodist in this region, in the last century.
In 1778, Methodist preaching was introduced into the following places on the Peninsula: Kent
Island -- Appoquinimink, in New Castle. In Kent county, Del. -- Mr. Lewis', in Murderkill; Mr.
Boyer's, Dover; Mr. Hilliard's, above Dover; and at Cardeen's -- probably this appointment is now
represented at Laws' Meetinghouse. In Sussex county -- Mr. Shockley's, in Slaughter Neck; Mr.
Ross'; White Brown's; and Joseph Turpin's, in North West Fork; and Broad Creek. In Somerset
county -- Salisbury, and Quantico. There were several other appointments made, of which we cannot
speak with equal clearness.
In the North West Fork, at Morgan Williams', Mr. Asbury was the instrument of the restoration
of Mr. Lowry, a backslider, who afterwards gladly entertained the preachers; he lived at Lowry's
Mill, on the head of Nanticoke river.
The principal men in the Broad Creek society, were Gitting Bradley, George Moore, Joshua
Moore, Joseph Moore, Isaac Moore, and Thomas Jones; in their houses the Methodists preached
until they built a chapel. Mr. George Moore became a very considerable preacher; and in 1780 he
appears in the Minutes as an itinerant, where his name is found for the last time, in 1792, as preacher
in charge of Milford Circuit. A he was a man of family, his labors were confined to the Peninsula.
On a certain occasion, he delivered a discourse in (now) Smyrna that so interested Mr. John
Cummings that he arose and endorsed it as one of the ablest sermons ever preached in that place; and
with a pertinent exhortation, called on the people to improve what they had that day heard.
Mr. Joshua Moore moved to the South. In 1806, Mr. Asbury notices him for the last time as an
inhabitant of Georgia, not far from Sparta. At that time he had served this Moore family to the third
generation. Messrs. Jacob and Daniel Moore, who were members of the Philadelphia Conference,
descended from the Moores of Broad Creek. In 1779, Mr. Asbury drew a subscription for a
Methodist chapel, which was opened for worship a few years after, among the Moores. It was a poor
edifice, and when the Protestant Methodists set up for themselves they got possession of it; but one