Excerpt from the Autobiography of Israel Mitchell (ca. 1804)

1802-1804, Autobiographies & Biographies, Barking Exercise, Cane Ridge Meeting House, Dancing Exercise, Other Bodily Exercises & General References, Presbyterians, Running Exercise

“I am awair that those that have never saw these things [the jerks] will be ready to say it is utterly imposable and cannot be true. But who has not seen persons in fits…preform faits [feats] intirely beyand the power of man while in the exercises of reason?”