Doctrine of perfection in the US?

On reading through Jarena Lee's journals, I became curious to know how Wesley's idea of Christian perfection fared in the colonies and early post Revolution US. Jarena Lee's first introduction to sanctification through William Scott made no mention of perfection, and even the idea of sanctification was new to her. Did early American Methodists believe in and/or preach on perfection? Was it acknowledged and just not at the forefront of their thought, or did people disagree with Wesley on this issue? Jarena's story is full of very distinct moments and structured around those moments as the source of transformation--would perfection be difficult to hold onto as a more gradual occurrence when conversions/transformations were understood as moments in time?