Excerpt from the Autobiography of William Winans (ca. 1802)

1802-1804, Autobiographies & Biographies, Methodists, Millsaps College, William Winans

“While we resided in Fayette County, I think in 1802, there was a very great Religious excitement among the Baptists and Presbyterians, in that part of Pennsylvania…. The Jerks was a prevailing exercise throughout the whole of this excitement….”