Excerpt from the Joseph Brown’s “Biographical Sketch” (ca. 1803)
“I was taken with the Jirks and the impresson was followed with power….”
Excerpts from the Diary of Isaac Conger (June 15–September 10, 1813)
“I seen a woman have a fit in the morning & the man at knight the first that I ever saw have Convulsion fits. To see the Goodness & the mercy of God in preserving his people how thankful ought I to be….”
Excerpt from Joseph Brown’s “Biographical Sketch” (Fall 1814)
“The peopel had the Jirks Shouting and d[a]ncing and…those that atempted to desribe there fealing while ingaged in the above exersize sayed the[y] had the most hevenly fealing that [they] ever felt in the there life….”
