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Smith, John

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Frank A. Johnson, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1170
Overview

Account book of Matthew Wallace, a Mill Point, West Virginia, physician, containing notes, a list of medical books, and the medical account of George B. Moffett; sentiment book of Anna McNeel Wallace, 1883-1886; and typescript copies of a sermon and journals, 1786-1788, of John Smith, a Methodist circuit rider, pertaining to his labors on the Greenbrier, Redstone, and Holston circuits.

Dates: 1786-1886

John Smith, Methodist Circuit Rider, Journal

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1717
Overview

Journal of John Smith, Methodist circuit rider, concerning his work on the Greenbrier Circuit in West Virginia, 1787 and 1788; the Redstone Circuit in western Pennsylvania and western Virginia, 1786-1787; and the Holston Circuit in 1787. Smith preached Calvinist doctrines of unconditional election, reprobation, and perseverance. There is a typescript, "Greenbrier Circuit - Its First Year; 1787-1788," by the Reverend Lawrence Sherwood, based on the Smith journal.

Dates: 1786-1788, 1963

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Account books 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
Physicians - letters and papers. 1
Religion -- Calvinism 1