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Joseph Tracy was born November 3, 1793, in Hartford, Vermont, as the eldest child of Joseph and Ruth Carter Tracy.By his own account, he "was a farmer's boy and student alternately, or sometimes both at once," until he graduated with a Master of Arts from Dartmouth College in 1814, after election to Phi Beta Kappa society. [1]
The Second Great Awakening (sometimes known simply as "the Great Awakening") was a religious revival that occurred in the United States beginning in the late eighteenth century and lasting until the middle of the nineteenth century. While it occurred in all parts of the United States, it was especially strong in the Northeast and the Midwest. [15]
The Old Side–New Side controversy occurred within the Presbyterian Church in Colonial America and was part of the wider theological controversy surrounding the First Great Awakening. The Old and New Side Presbyterians existed as separate churches from 1741 until 1758.
Each of these "Great Awakenings" was characterized by widespread revivals led by evangelical Protestant ministers, a sharp increase of interest in religion, a profound sense of conviction and redemption on the part of those affected, an increase in evangelical church membership, and the formation of new religious movements and denominations.
The Separate Baptists are a group of Baptists originating in the 18th-century United States, primarily in the South, that grew out of the Great Awakening. The Great Awakening was a religious revival and revitalization of piety among the Christian churches. It covered English-speaking countries and swept through the American colonies between the ...
The Great Revival, 1787-1805: The Origins of the Southern Evangelical Mind (University Press of Kentucky, 1972) Conkin, Paul Keith. Cane Ridge: America's Pentecost (Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1990) online. Dunnavant, Anthony L. ed. Cane Ridge in Context: Perspectives on Barton W. Stone and the Revival (Disciples of Christ Historical Society, 1992)
Shubal Stearns (sometimes spelled Shubael; 28 January 1706 – November 20, 1771), was a colonial evangelist and preacher during the Great Awakening.He converted after hearing George Whitefield and planted a Baptist Church in Sandy Creek, Guilford County, North Carolina. [1]
Williams described the sermon as “most awakening” accompanied by a great moaning & crying out throughout ye whole house…so that ye minister was obliged to desist..shrieks and crys were piercing & amazing." [23] In all, about forty new members were admitted to the Longmeadow church during the height of the Great Awakening (1741–1742). [24]