Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY.
and J. A. & U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted
1968. Unknown County. The Methodist Episcopal Church. Page 447.
WILSON LEE was born in Sussex county, Delaware, November, 1761,
and admitted into the traveling connection in 1784. He was sent
out to labor in Kentucky, in 1787, and continued to labor in the
different appointments assigned him, as a man of God esteemed
very highly, for his work's sake, until 1782. From that
conference he was transferred to the east, where he continued to
labor until he finished his course, by the rupture of a blood
vessel, in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, October 11, 1804.
Wilson Lee was a preacher of no ordinary acceptability, correct
in the economy of himself and others. As an elder and presiding
elder he showed himself a workman that needed not be ashamed.
professing the sanctifying grace of God, he carried about him
the air and port of one who had communion in heaven; his life
and conversation ill