Note 13 — Chapter XVI · MISSIONARIES, 1807.

Leonard Castle was the Summerfield of the Baltimore Conference. He was converted in a prayer-meeting at Pipe Creek. In after years I knew his relations there and his brother in Tennessee. His race was short but brilliant. He was only eighteen when he entered the ministry, and, after traveling six years, he died of yellow fever in Baltimore on September 21, 1808. He had a splendid intellect and great oratorical powers. His brethren in the Minutes speak of him “as a happy model of pulpit simplicity, eloquence, and piety.” They also say, “This astonishing genius is gone from the thousands of our Israel to the Paradise of God.” He married the daughter of Rev. Ephraim Chambers. I saw her in all the loneliness of early widowhood. She was the friend of Mrs. Gough, and I used to meet her at Perry Hall.