Excerpt from The Life and Times of the Rev. John Brooks (1811)
“Here I first saw what was called the jerks, a very strange as well as disgusting exercise….”
Letter from Peter L. Maxey to Oliver H. P. Maxey (November 26, 1845)
“He is a thorough Methodist believes in all of the religious exercises after the straightest of the sect…. I shall not fall out with him for advocating the genuine Jerks….”
Excerpt from the Diary of Jacob Lanius (March 17, 1836)
“One woman took what used to be called in Tennessee the barking exercise. This was something I never witnessed before, and something that I am not prepared to account for on any principal.”
Published Letter in the Methodist Magazine (October 15, 1820)
“The character of this revival is the least mixed with what is called irregularities or extravangancies of any that I ever saw. We have had nothing of what is called the jirks or dance among us….”
