1802-1804, Correspondence, Dancing Exercise, Laughing Exercise, Other Bodily Exercises & General References, Presbyterians, Running Exercise
“We have now got the Silent, the jirking, the laughing, and the dancing also the [runing] & pointing exercises. Each one of these in their turns have staggered serious people but they are still as it were constrained to acknowledge this O Lord is thy work, and it is wondrous in our eyes….”
1802-1804, Correspondence, Dancing Exercise, Falling Exercise, Laughing Exercise, Other Bodily Exercises & General References, Presbyterians, Samuel G. Ramsey
“[W]e Are exercised in A religious way we think. This is the Genus As general name for the thing; but there Are A great many specimens of this exercise. There is the jerking; this is the most Common. In addition to this, there is the dancing, Laughing, running, walking, pointing, fighting and falling exercise….”
