Excerpt from A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri (ca. 1814)

1810-1815, Books, Essays & Treatises, Dancing Exercise, Other/Unknown, Robert Rose, William S. Bryan

“It was about the year 1814, as near as we can ascertain—for there was no record kept of the matter—that the singular religious phenomenon called the “jerks” began to make its appearance at the camp-meetings….”