Near this site stood the home of Judge Thomas White, a member of the Colonial Maryland legislature and Delaware House of Assembly, Chief Justice of the Kent County Court of Common Pleas, and a delegate to the Delaware Constitutional Conventions of 1776 and 1791-1792. It was also the boyhood home of his son, Samuel White, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1801 to 1809. During the tumultuous Revolutionary War years of 1778-1780, the future Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury found refuge here, and while living with the Whites he developed the ideas that would shape the future of American Methodism.