1816-1860, Autobiographies & Biographies, Texas, University of Texas at Arlington
“When I told him about the few professors of religion [in Texas, Joseph Brown] became greatly excited and had the jerks…. I told him that if he did not stop his whooping that I would get in the other bed so he promised to be quiet but we quit the subject of religion in the new settlement….”
1816-1860, James J. McDaniel, Magazines & Newspapers, Other/Unknown
“About 1822–3…, I attended a camp-meeting at McCain’s…. [T]here I first saw [Joseph Brown] under religious excitement…. Some years before, those peculiar, involuntary and spasmodic exercises known as ‘jerks,’ had been very common…and [they] continued to effect Col. Brown likely through life….”
