June 21, [1800] — to Jesse Lee
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FROM THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1800
THROUGH 1801
June 21, 1800 - December 31, 1801
CHAPTER 7
Jesse Lee was one of the great preachers of early Methodism. Born in Virginia, he moved in many sections of the church and for a while traveled with Asbury. He was the father of New England Methodism. Though there was a question here as to his appointment, the Minutes show he was assigned to New York. [NEW YORK]1
SATURDAY MORNING
June 21, [1800]
[TO JESSE LEE]2
Dear Brother:
We wish to close the Minutes in [New] York, if we can. You must have some place therein: will the above do? [New] York will be a blank at present. If you choose to stay until you think it meet to go down south, you may; and more, you may make your own appointments south, and omit going eastward. Or go, if you choose, to the east; or, if you choose, you may come to Kentucky.
FRANCIS ASBURY
RICHARD WHATCOAT
J.B. Wakeley, Lost Chapters Recovered from the
Early History of American Methodism, 522