{"id":2915,"date":"2016-07-10T09:16:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T13:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2019-02-19T06:51:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T11:51:16","slug":"woehrmann1977-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/2016\/07\/10\/woehrmann1977-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt from the Autobiography of Abraham Snethen (ca. 1814)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;25px|||&#8221;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Oswald; font-weight: normal; font-size: x-large;\">In 1818, Abraham Snethen, the \u201cbarefoot preacher,\u201d witnessed the jerks while preaching to a congregation of New Light \u201cChristians\u201d in Clay County, Kentucky. For the complete text of Snethen\u2019s autobiography, see Paul Woehrmann, ed. \u201cThe Autobiography of Abraham Snethen, Frontier Preacher,\u201d <em>Filson Club Historical Quarterly<\/em> 51 (1977): 315\u2013335.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243; \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 50px;\">\u2026now I left for cincinati again and on my way heard of the New light Presbytarians and Marshallites which is the Chrystian Church now and heard all sort of bad reports a bout them they said that they would trac the Devil up trees and bark at him about this tim the bodily exercise of falling and jerks and other exercises such as laughing they would fall and lay for hours and appear entierly [?] others jerk backwards and forwards with somuch force that a ladys hair wold crack like a wip it apeard almost all denominations and had a good affeit for the wickedest of men would take it as well as any and hardly ever let them go untill they out relijious\u2026.<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243; \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>Source<\/h3>\n<p>Paul Woehrmann, ed. \u201cThe Autobiography of Abraham Snethen, Frontier Preacher,\u201d <em>Filson Club Historical Quarterly<\/em> 51 (1977): 325.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[N]ow I left for cincinati again and on my way heard of the New light Presbytarians&#8230;and heard all sort of bad reports a bout them they said that&#8230;they would fall and lay for hours and&#8230;others jerk backwards and forwards with somuch force that a ladys hair wold crack like a wip&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86440,96005,86452,86443,86437,86446,86335,86447,86450],"tags":[96005,86413,86497,93382,96007,96008,86334,86353,86335,93295,96009,86516,86391,86341,93343],"class_list":["post-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1810-1815","category-abraham-snethen","category-autobiographies-biographies","category-barking-exercise","category-christian-disciples-of-christ","category-falling-exercise","category-kentucky","category-laughing-exercise","category-other-bodily-exercises-general-references","tag-abraham-snethen","tag-barking","tag-bodily-exercises","tag-christians-denomination","tag-cincinnati-ohio","tag-clay-county-ky","tag-falling","tag-jerking","tag-kentucky","tag-laughing","tag-marshallites","tag-new-lights","tag-ohio","tag-presbyterians","tag-treeing-the-devil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}