Asbury’s letters and related documents · Record 285
August 26, 1810 — to Jacob Gruber
PITTSBURGH, PA.
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The date of the Short Creek Camp Meeting is the reason for this letter. The camp meetings were becoming so numerous that it was necessary for Asbury to pick some and miss others.
PITTSBURGH, PA.
August 26, 1810
[TO JACOB GRUBER]1
Dear Son:
I think now so far as we can look into futurity, I have no intention to be at Pike Run next year nor Pittsburgh. About 7 weeks after the 26 of July, 1811, I might possibly get up to Short Creek after taking [New] York, Philadelphia and Baltimore in the way to the west. In which case you might appoint Short Creek campmeeting. It might come near the second or third week in September.
F. ASBURY
Methodist Historical Society of the Baltimore Conference (Lovely Lane Museum)
Notes (1)
- Letter not designated but probably to Jacob Gruber as Asbury is writing about Pittsburgh and affairs on Monongahela District, where Gruber was presiding elder. ↩