The big Cane Ridge camp meeting 8 miles n e of Paris,Ky started Aug 6,1801. I searched www.google.com for "RICHARD MCNEMAR" who was minister of Cabin Creek,kY pRESBYTERIAN and of East Eagle Creek Presbyterian [would be West Union,Oh in 1801,and,who,in 1806, became a leader of the Ohio-Ky-Ind Shakers with schoolmate Rev John Dunlevy. 1802-05 they were 'NEW LIGHT" leaders. In 1807, Richard McNemar published a book on "The Kentucky Revival." He states that the spread of the revival began in Christian and Logan Co., Kentucky and in the Spring of 1801, had reached Mason Co., Kentucky. Beginning at Flemingsburgh in April, moving to Cabin Creek, where a camp meeting was held, then Concord, in Bourbon County, by the last of May and Eagle Creek in Adams Co., Ohio in the beginning of June. There were meetings in quick succession at Pleasant Point, Kentucky; Indian Creek, in Harrison county (July); Caneridge, near Paris, Bourbon county (August). "Here were collected all the elements calculated to affect the imagination. The spectacle presented at night was one of the wildest grandeur. The glare of the blazing camp-fires falling on a dense assemblage of heads simultaneously bowed in adoration and reflected back from long ranges of tents upon every side; hundreds of candles and lamps suspended among the trees, together with numerous torches flashing to and fro, throwing an uncertain light upon the tremulous foliage, and giving an appearance of dim and indefinite extent to the depth of the forest; the solemn chanting of hymns swelling and falling on the night wind; the impassioned exhortations; the earnest prayers; the sobs, shrieks, or shouts, bursting from persons under intense agitation of mid; the sudden spasms which seized upon scores, and unexpectedly dashed them to the ground -- all conspired to invest the scene with terrific interest, and to work up the feelings to the highest pitch of excitement. When we add to this, the lateness of the hour to which the exercises were protracted, sometimes till two in the morning, or longer; the eagerness of curiosity stimulated for so long a time previous; the reverent enthusiasm which ascribed the strange contortions witnessed, to the mysterious agency of God; the fervent and sanguine temperament of some of the preachers; and lastly, the boiling zeal of the Methodists, who could not refrain from shouting aloud during the sermon, and shaking hands all round afterwards. . ; take all this into consideration, and it will abate our surprise very much, when informed that the number of persons who fell, was computed by the Rev. James Crawford, who endeavored to keep an accurate account, at the astounding number of about three thousand." <BR> <BR> The subjects and promoters of thsi revival were those who went into and formed that which was afterward called the New Lights. The Presbyterians among them at first formed themselves into a Prsbytery in 1803, calling it the Independent Presbytery of Springfield, for John Thompson, pastor of the Church of Springfield (now Springdale, near Cincinnati, Ohio), was one of those who went off, and that church had the honor of giving a name to the seceders. This arrangement was, however, of short duration, for June 28, 1804, they adopted what they called "The Last Will and Testament of the Presbytery of Springfield" in which those that signed agreed to "sink into union with the body of Christ at large. The signers included Robert Marshall, John Dunlevy, Richard McNemar, Barton W. Stone, John Thompson and David Purviance. This is the founding of the Christian Church denomination. [ And soon,for Dunlevy and McNemar, the mid-western Shakers. I keep repeating that Feb,1811 100+ new converts to the Shakers from s e Brown Co,and s w Adams Co floated past Cincinnati en route to form the Buseron [failed] Shaker village up the Wabash north of Vincinnes,Ind. And,these new Shakers had had families before becoming Shakers-HB FAGLEY] <BR> On April 20th, 1804, the Turtle Creek Church, which was near Lebanon, Ohio, and a part of the Washington Presbytery, supplied by Richard McNemar, reorganized as a New Light Church, adopting four propositions that were presented in writing, signed by William Bedel, Malcham Worley, Matthias Spring, Aaron Tullis, Samuel Sering, Francis Bedel and Richard McNemar; some of these, and probably all of them had been elders in the church. <BR>1806 THEY BECAME SHAKERS. < HB FAGLEY-It may be Richard McNeMar was near Moorefield,WV with George,of Thomas ,Brown And he was schooled by Rev Robert Wilkes Finley at Cane Ridge,near George Brown's kin. And was on Cabin Creek with George Brown,of Thomas.