1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ASBURY. FRANCIS (1745-1816), American clergyman, was born at Hamstead Bridge in the parish of Handsworth, near Birmingham, in Staffordshire, England, on the 2Olh of August 1745. His parents were poor, and after a brief period of study in the village school of Barre, he was apprenticed at the av fourteen to a maker of " buckle chapes," or tongues. It seems probable that his parents were among the early converts of Wesley; at any rate, Francis became converted to Methodism in his thirteenth year, and at sixteen becam…
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