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NYMP.783.012
22 Aug 1783:34 (3/133)
Just come to hand, and now selling by the printers hereof,
at No.7, Water Street, between the Coffee House and the Old
Slip, and by Mr. Robert Mills, book-binder and stationer,
near the North-Church, price two shillings, Some Brief Hints
of A Religious Shemn [ ], Taught and propagated by a
number of Europeans, living in a place called Nisqueunia, in
the state of New-York. Written by Valentine Rathbun,
Minister of the Gospel...[3 lines] The following extract
will fully shew the wonderful and surprizing enthusiasm and
phrenzy of these people, more commonly known by the
appellation of the Shaking Quakers: "When they meet together
for their worship, they fall a groaning and trembling...[6
lines] some will be singing each one his own tune; some
without words in an Indian tune; some singing tunes; some,
tunes of their own making, in an unknown mutter, which they
call new tongues, some will be dancing and others stand
laughing heartily and loudly; others will be drumming on the
floor with their feet, as though a pair of drum-sticks were
beating a ruff on a drum head...[3 lines] till the different
tunes, of groaning, jumping, dancing, drumming, laughing,
talking and fluttering, shoving, and hissing, make a perfect
bedlam."
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