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NYMP.783.018
5 Sep 1783:44 (3/137)
Printers hereof, at No.7 Water Street, between the Coffee
House and the Old Slip, and by Mr. Robert Mills, bookbinder
and stationer, near the North-Church, price two shillings,
Some Brief Hints of a Religious Sheme, 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. 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
more lines of description] some will be singing, each one
his own tune; some without words in an Indian tone; some
sing jig 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...[5 lines] till the different tunes, of groaning,
jumping, dancing, drumming, laughing, talking and
fluttering, shooing, and hissing, make a perfect bedlam."
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