On Tuesday, October 9, we rode to Winchester, capital of Clarke County, Ky., and were the guests of Leroy Cole. The history of this brother is a peculiar one. He became a traveling preacher as early as 1777. His first appointment was to North Carolina with John Dickins and John King, one of the pioneers in that state. He was in Kent, Delaware, and on the Peninsula, Maryland, with Gill and Tunnell, and did noble service. In 1784 he was in Philadelphia. He was a member of the famous Christmas Conference in Baltimore, where the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1784. In 1785 we find in the Minutes the question, “Who is laid aside? Answer, Leroy Cole.” This is all the light we have on the subject, and this is enough to make darkness visible. There might have been injustice done him, for soon after he was restored, and he was a traveling or local preacher for over fifty years. He early emigrated to the West, and settled near Lexington, Ky., where he was a farmer, beloved and respected. Mr. Asbury’s visiting him and the friendship he exhibited shows he had confidence in him. He was a Virginian, born in 1749, converted in 1777, and the same year licensed to preach and entered the traveling ministry. He sustained a local relation when we visited him. He was afterward a member of the Kentucky Conference. He died in triumph February 6, 1830, aged eighty-one. We remained two days at Leroy Coles’s, and the bishop preached on Thursday evening. On Saturday he preached at Abraham Cassell’s, brother to Rev. Leonard Cassell of the Baltimore Conference, who died in 1808. Abraham had emigrated from Pipe Creek, Md. On Sunday, at Nicholasville, the bishop preached, and I in the evening at Brother Cassell’s on Matt. v, 20, and then gave them another discourse in German. At Brother Cassell’s the bishop heard sad intelligence of the death of Benjamin Swope. He had died the winter before. The bishop says, “My old acquaintance was a man of more than common mind and gifts, and might have been much more useful than I fear he was.” Mr. Swope was a minister among “The United Brethren.” Mr. Asbury became acquainted with him in 1771, and through him with the great Otterbein.