Note 44 — Chapter XXXIX · BISHOP ASBURY—CHARACTER AND HABITS.

Thinking it would gratify some of my readers, I give the names of some of the subscribers in this list: Bishop M’Kendree, his father, James M’Kendree, and his sister; my mother, Eve Boehm, and my sister Barbara, wife of Dr. Keaggy; Francis Hollingsworth, (the transcriber of Asbury’s Journal,) and Mary his wife; Revs. W. Beauchamp, Samuel Parker, (spiritual father of Rev. W. Winans,) H. B. Bascom, (then but two years in the ministry and eighteen years old,) Jacob Young, James B. Finley, and John Collins, (the spiritual father of Judge M’Lean;) the Revs. James Quinn, John Sale, Thomas S. Hinde, (once well known as “Theophilus Arminius,”) William Burke, (an eloquent preacher, and one of the pioneers of Methodism in the West,) James Gwin, James Axley, (noted for his eccentricities and excellences,) and their wives; Revs. Thomas L. Douglass, (an intimate friend of M’Kendree, and who preached his funeral sermon,) John M’Gee, (father of camp-meetings in this country,) Jesse Walker, (pioneer of Methodism in Missouri,) and Peter Cartwright. These were chiefly from the West. Of southern preachers there were James Jenkins, Daniel Asbury, William Capers, James B. Glenn, S. Dunwoody, Lewis Myers, Alexander Talley, W. M. Kennedy, Hilliard Judge, and Edward Drumgoole, with seven of his family. Among the subscribers north and east we find the names of Freeborn Garrettson, his wife and daughter; Revs. S. Merwin, W. Phœbus, W. Ross, W. Jewett, W. Anson, Elijah Woolsey, Heman Bangs, Arnold Schofield, Smith Arnold, Philip Munger, Asa Kent, George Pickering, Solomon Sias, (first publisher of Zion’s Herald,) Daniel Filmore, Martin Ruter, (who found a grave in Texas,) Joel Ketchum, and Ebenezer Newell. Of the laity in this region we find the names of John Armitage, John Baker, (in whose house the conference was held at Ashgrove in 1803,) James Sterling and his wife, of Burlington, N. J.; John Paradise, (the portrait painter,) W. B. Skidmore, J. B. Oakley, and Grace Shotwell. The amounts subscribed would be thought very small nowadays. Some gave a dollar, but most of them much less. Some of the distinguished preachers I have named gave but twenty-five cents. It was as much as they were able to give, so scanty were their means.