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Mills, and Burlington, on week days, spending most of his Sabbaths in Philadelphia. June 23.
"Walked down to Gloucester Point, and then rode to Brother Chew's, and preached to many people.
24. At Greenwich I met with Mr. Stringer, who preached and baptized several people. We conversed
on the insult which Mr. Shirley had given Mr. Wesley. Mr. Stringer said Mr. Wesley was
undoubtedly a good man, and had been useful to thousands. Returning back towards Gloucester, I
called on Squire Price, and presented him with a petition for raising one hundred and fifty pounds,
to discharge the debt on our preaching house (St. George's) in Philadelphia."
Returning to Philadelphia, he received a letter from Mr. Pilmoor, who was now in Maryland, on
his way to Virginia, "replete with accounts of his preaching abroad, and in the church, to large
congregations, and the like." On his next visit to Trenton he preached five times, one of which was
in a field; he also filled his appointment over the river; it seems that this place was near Trenton.
Soon after he attended the execution of a man by the name of Smart, who was hung at Burlington,
for murder.
July 14. "Went to Jersey, and preached at Friend Turner's. Then at Jesse Chew's; next day at
Greenwich; then at Gloucester; next to Haddonfield, and preached to a few attentive hearers, at
Joseph Thorne's." Mr. Asbury finished his work, on the Philadelphia Circuit, which, at this time,
included all of Methodism in Jersey, by preaching at Trenton, New Mills, and Burlington. On his last
visit to Trenton he first notices the existence of a society in that place, which consisted of nineteen
serious persons. This was in July, 1772. About this time Mr. Asbury met Mr. Boardman, who had
been to Boston, where he had spent some time in the work of the ministry; and it is said that he
formed a Methodist society in the place; but, as no other Methodist preacher succeeded him for
several years, the society languished away, after he left, for want of ministerial attention.
In the latter end of July, 1772, Mr. Boardman made out his second plan for this year, which seems
to have been thus: Mr. Asbury to go to New York; Mr. Wright to Maryland, to labor with Messrs.
Strawbridge, Williams, and King; Mr. Pilmoor, as we have seen, was appointed to Virginia. While
Mr. Boardman took charge of Philadelphia, and also visited Maryland, as the superintendent.
As Mr. Pilmoor was on his way to Virginia, passing through Maryland, and preaching from place
to place, he came to Deer Creek. While here, he lodged in the old mansion of the Watters family;
where he wrote, on a pane of glass, with the point of a diamond,
"Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives;
She builds our quiet as she forms our lives;
Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even,
And opens in each heart a little heaven."
Psa. xcix. 9, Exalt Jehovah our God."
J. P. (Joseph Pilmoor), June 30, 1772.
This has been read by many an itinerant Methodist preacher, who has lodged in the same house
since it was written; and, it is said, the pane of glass has been carefully preserved to this day, as a
memento.