It seems the Salisbury Circuit established by ALLEN was in NC and not VA. Methodism was introduced in Salisbury in 1783 by Beverly Allen, and a circuit was formed with thirty members. An account of the first sermon preached in a school­house there was written by a convert and is preserved in Lednum. (Op. cit., 372-76; Grissom, op. cit., 245-47.) In 1784 Beverly Allen and James Hinton were sent to form a circuit, but their small classes were not permanent. They reported only eighty members in the whole Cape Fear area, and in 1786 Wilmington was merged with the Bladen Circuit. The first class of white people was formed in Wilmington in 1797, and it was said that "the blacks were much more attentive to religion than the whites." (Lee: History of the Methodists, 209; Grissom, op. cit., 219, 224.) John R. Clarke Thomasville, GA