In this brief journal entry, Methodist circuit rider Noah Fidler describes a somatic phenomenon resembling the jerks. Contextual information appears in square brackets.
Thursday [May] 30 [1805]. I preached at Henry Holstines. The power of God came down. Several took an exteordinry exercis of shaking there heaad and working there arms. How wonderful is the work of the Lord.
Source
Noah Fidler, journal, 1801–ca. 1805, 68, negative photocopy, Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, MSS 4965, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
