Excerpt from the Journal of Daniel Boler (ca. 1807)

1805-1809, Diaries & Journals, Western Reserve Historical Society

“[O]ne of the [Shaker] Sisters looked sternly and solemnly at him when all of a sudden he was taken with the jirks and was jirked around the house and thro’ the brush and bushes and would at times be thrown…completely heels over head, flat on his back, and the [hickory] staff which he held in his hand would be thrown 20 or 30 feet from him….”