<<< >From the 1786 Journal of Bishop Francis ASBURY South Carolina: Henry Willis was the "presiding elder" of the district which included the Yadkin and Holston circuits covering northern and western North Carolina and all the Holston country of Tennessee and Virginia. [Note: Henry Willis lived in Charleston, SC.] John Fletcher of Madeley died August 14, 1785, in his fifty-sixth year. He was a saintly man, second in the Methodist command, and chosen by Wesley as his successor. He wrote two famous works, Appeal to Matter of Fact and Common Sense, on human depravity, and Checks to Antinomianism, against Calvinism. He marred Mary Bosan­quet, who became a preacher and took his place in the parish of Madeley after his death. Leaving Georgetown, Asbury proceeded along his 1785 route until he was within twenty-five miles of Charleston. Then he turned southwest over the Wappetaw Swamp Bridge to Cainhoy, which was inland from Caper's Island and Caper's Inlet on the coast. Between the bridge and Cainhoy lived Captain George Sinclair Capers, the uncle of William Capers who was to become famous as the founder and superintendent of the Plantation Missions and a bishop. Bishop Caper's mother, née Mary Singletary, and her parents are buried at Cainhoy. Bishop Capers says that his father, William Capers, was converted this year under the preaching of Asbury's companion Henry Willis. (Life of William Capers, D.D., autobiography completed by Wightman, 12, 24, 41.) >>> John R. Clarke Thomasville, GA