Francis Asbury

This portrait represents Asbury in middle life. He went to America in 1771, and became the Wesley of the Western world, who rode 275,000 miles as an evangelist and as Methodist bishop. He died on March 31, 1816, in his seventy-first year.

Letter to Rev. Thomas Davenport

The Vicar of Allexton, near Uppingham, had found spiritual blessing through Wesley, and pleaded to be remembered by him and the Methodists in prayer and thanksgiving. The letter shows how Wesley was endeared to not a few of the clergy of his day.

Freeborn Garretson and Francis Asbury

1. Freeborn Garretson (1752-1827) ranks next to Asbury in early American Methodism.
2. The house of George Arnold, twenty miles from Fredricksburg, where Asbury died with his head resting on the shoulder of John Wesley Bond, his devoted companion.
3. Site of Asbury's birthplace, four miles from Birmingham, where he was born in August 1743.
4. Equestrian statue of Asbury in Washington. At its dedication on October 16, 1924, President Coolidge described him as 'The pioneer of the wilderness' who fitted into the scheme of things. 'Who shall say,' he asked, 'where his influence written on the immortal souls of men shall end? He is entitled to ranks as one of the builders of our nation.'

Letter to Freeborn Garretson

Garretson was now in Nova Scotia, and became on of the most powerful preachers in America. He seems to have been specially devoted to Wesley, whom he consulted about printing and other matters. He sent his Journal, but the ship which brought it was lost on the voyage.