Excerpt from Jacob Young’s Autobiography of a Pioneer (August 1804)

1802-1804, American Antiquarian Society, Autobiographies & Biographies, Methodists

“I made a pause, then exclaimed, at the top of my voice, ‘Do you leave off jerking, if you can.’ It was thought more than five hundred commenced jumping, shouting, and jerking. There was no more preaching that day….”