Abstract:
These papers represent a collection of correspondence between the state's leaders in the Protestant Episcopal Church and their efforts to strengthen religion in western North Carolina at the beginning of the 19th century. The letters cover a period between November 1813 and January 1831 between five individuals; Bishop John Stark Ravenscroft, George W. Freeman, William M. Green, William D. Cairns, and Robert Johnston Miller. Content of these letters focuses on the \"Great Revival,\" a religious sweep of the state following the Revolutionary War.