{"id":2397,"date":"2017-03-09T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T00:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2019-02-19T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:23:08","slug":"southunion1805-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/2017\/03\/09\/southunion1805-02\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt from the Journal of Benjamin Seth Youngs (December 25, 1809)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This excerpt, likely derived from the journals (now lost) of Benjamin Seth Youngs, was copied into the official records of South Union Shaker Village by Harvey L. Eads later in the nineteenth century. In 1805, Youngs had witnessed a number of western converts who contracted the jerks after refusing to participate in the Shakers\u2019 distinctive dancing worship practices (click here<\/a>). John Patterson, an Ohio believer, informed Youngs of a similar incident involving a Kentucky man named John Bryant. Several months later, Bryant moved his family to the Shaker settlement at Shawnee Run (later Pleasant Hill), Kentucky, where he assumed a series of leadership positions prior to his death in 1823.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Monday [December] 25 [1809].\u00a0Return<\/em>. John Patterson from Ky. Heard from Believers there. John Rankin & Samuel Hooser<\/em> preached last Saturday there, & John Bryant Sr.<\/em> who had opened his mind, was opposed to dancing. Returned home from Shawnee Run in Confusion. While feeling opposed was taken with the jirks. Was released but still opposed. Was seized again in the woods. He seized a buckeye sapling, but was jerked into willing obedience & now has full faith in dancing!<\/div>\n

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Source<\/h3>\n

Harvey L. Eads, transcr., Shakers\u2014South Union, Ky., \u201cRecord Book A (including Autobiography of John Rankin, Sr.),\u201d 1805\u20131836, 110, Shakers of South Union, Kentucky, Collection, 1800\u20131916, MSS 597, Manuscripts and Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.<\/p>\n

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