Record #:

19781

Author(s):

Johnson, Guion Griffis

Abstract:

This article looks at religious camp meetings held in North Carolina as part of the Great Revival, the religious revival movement that was extremely popular from the beginning of the 19th century until the Civil War. The article is divided into sections that look at the history of camp meetings in general and within the state, camp meeting methods, the phenomenon known as \"the exercises, and camp meeting disorders.\"

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 10 Issue 2, April 1933, p95-110, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Camp meetings

Record #:

19782

Author(s):

Shutz, Geza

Abstract:

This is a reprint of correspondence between the Ritter Company, Franz (or Frantz) Ludwig Michel, and others in the projected Swiss and Palatine colonies. The letters date between 1703 and 1708 which predate Christoph Baron von Graffenried's expedition to North Carolina by about 10 years. According to Schutz's introduction, the letters address the period in which Michel was sent to North Carolina by the Canton of Bern to find a tract of land for Swiss settlement and later negotiated for the Canton of Bern and the Ritter Company, a silver mining and Swiss Anabaptist settlement venture, to acquire land in North Carolina and Virginia.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 10 Issue 2, April 1933, p133-141 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

New Bern--History