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Letter from Samuel M. Wallace to Anne “Nancy” Fleming (July 20, 1804)

Letter from Samuel M. Wallace to Anne “Nancy” Fleming (July 20, 1804)

1802-1804, Correspondence, Other Bodily Exercises & General References, Presbyterians, Samuel M. Wallace

“Those who withdrew themselves last fall from the Presbyterian Church, perhaps, go to greater lengths, than any set, or sect, of people ever did. The Tenesse exercise has got very comon among them….”

Letter from Samuel M. Wallace to Anne “Nancy” Fleming (November 2, 1804)

Letter from Samuel M. Wallace to Anne “Nancy” Fleming (November 2, 1804)

1802-1804, Correspondence, Other Bodily Exercises & General References, Presbyterians, Samuel M. Wallace

“The dissenters from the Presbyterian sect has increased in number considerably and still continue to be warmly engaged in religion. They are exercised with almost all the different kinds of exercise, that you have heard of in Tenesse and Kentucky….”

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