The colonel was very friendly, very courteous, but not religious. I went to his house to preach one Sabbath morning, and arriving before the hour of service, I was kindly invited into a private room. The colonel came in, and, after wishing me good morning, I inquired after the state of his health. He answered, “As hearty as a buck, but I do not like this dying. I believe God made man to live forever.” I replied, “I believe that too, but sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and now it is appointed unto all men once to die.” He looked thoughtful, but made no reply, and left the room. A few minutes after I began the service, and the colonel was one of my auditors, for he was always present at the preaching, and a very attentive hearer. He was then an old man, and yet he did not like to think of death. He died three years after, in 1806. My excellent friend and brother, William Colbert, in November, 1804, married Colonel Stroud’s daughter Elizabeth. As I was so well acquainted in the family, and he and myself such intimate friends, he consulted me concerning the step he was about to take. I knew how deeply he was in love, and said I could give him no better advice than I saw in the almanac: “If you marry, you will be sorry; if you do not, you will be sorry.” He smiled, and said, “You have now fixed me.” A few months after he was married, and I never heard he was sorry. She made him an excellent helpmate, and William and Elizabeth “walked in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless,” till death separated them, in 1833. Then Elizabeth was left a widow, and William went up to receive his crown. Another of my preaching places was at Father Broadhead’s, in Smithfield, Northampton County. There was a place called “Broadhead Settlement,” and there is a stream called “Broadhead Creek,” They probably were so called from General Broadhead, who distinguished himself first in the Indian wars, and afterward in the Revolution. Here the Rev. John Broadhead, a descendant of his, was born and converted, and began to preach, and from this place entered the traveling connection. It was at his uncle’s I preached, and there were a number of his relatives in the neighborhood. He entered the traveling connection in 1794, and after having accomplished a noble work, died with his armor on, April 7, 1838. No name in the annals of New England Methodism shines brighter than John Broadhead’s; none will be more enduring. He was a man of imposing appearance, a dignified Christian minister, and a model preacher. In 1800 I became acquainted with him, and in after years, when at the New England Conferences, I saw him and heard him preach.