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Francis Asbury podcasts about his ministry of; Bishop Asbury Cottage - story on the BBC website about Francis Asbury's former home; Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury (1958) by Francis Asbury (ISBN 0-687-20581-6) American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists (Oxford University Press, 2009) by John H. Wigger (ISBN 0-195-38780-5)
The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church from August 7, 1771 to December 7, 1815, vol.2. New York, 1821. Boles, John B.
Felix Earnest was a minister and leader in the Methodist Church, having been ordained a deacon by Bishop Francis Asbury in 1806 and elevated to Elder by Joshua Soule in 1825. [5] Henry Earnest, Jr. represented Greene County in the state senate 1811–1813, and became a charter board member of Tusculum College upon its founding in 1818.
Barratt's Chapel, built in 1780, is the second oldest Methodist Church in the United States built for that purpose.The church was a meeting place of Asbury and Coke.. The history of Methodism in the United States dates back to the mid-18th century with the ministries of early Methodist preachers such as Laurence Coughlan and Robert Strawbridge.
Francis Asbury (1745–1816), the founding bishop of American Methodism, established the precedent for circuit riding. Together with his driver and partner " Black Harry " Hosier, he traveled 270,000 miles and preached 16,000 sermons as he made his way up and down early America supervising clergy.
Francis Asbury, Methodist, circuit rider and founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Henry Ward Beecher, ... Journal of Presbyterian History, 2002 80(1): 3–16.
Francis Asbury, later one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, arrived in America on October 27, 1771 after a fifty-three-day ocean voyage from England and received at St. George's. Asbury wrote in his journal, "...we were brought in the evening to a large church, where we met a considerable congregation. Mr. Pilmore ...
With the assistance of Francis Poythress and John Metcalf, Asbury completed arrangements for the school. Founded in 1790 under the name of Bethel Academy, [ 3 ] [ 5 ] : 171 it was the first Methodist school in the United States west of the Appalachians , [ 3 ] and the second in the nation.