At last the embargo was raised, and committing his work to Wesley, whom he had drawn into field-preaching, he sailed in August, 1739, for Philadelphia, on his way to Georgia.

His fame had gone before him, and the desire to hear him was universal.

The churches would not contain the throngs.

It was long remembered how, on those summer evenings, he would take his stand in the balcony of the old court-house in Market Street, and how every syllable from his wonderful voice would be heard aboard the river-craft moored at the foot of the street, four hundred feet away.
At New York the Episcopal church was closed against him, but the pastor of the Presbyterian church, Mr.Pemberton, from Boston, made him welcome, and the fields were free to him and his hearers.

On the way to New York and back, the tireless man preached at every town.