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Peter Cartwright, (born Peter Cartwright Jr.), also known as "Uncle Peter", "Backwoods Preacher", "Lord's Plowman", "Lord's Breaking-Plow", and "The Kentucky Boy" (September 1, 1785 – September 25, 1872), was an American Methodist, revivalist, preacher, in the Midwest, as
Peter Cartwright (born Sept. 1, 1785, Amherst county, Va., U.S.—died Sept. 25, 1872, near Pleasant Plains, Ill.) was a Methodist circuit rider of the American frontier. His father, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, took his family to Kentucky in 1790.
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“A Religious Flame That Spread All Over Kentucky”: Peter Cartwright Brings Evangelical Christianity to the West, 1801–04. In the decades following the Revolution, a vast variety of choices appeared on the American religious landscape as an antiauthoritarian climate encouraged the formation of new democratic religious sects.
Cartwright was a “hellfire and brimstone” preacher after the style of Wesley, and his character and personality often matched his sermons. Often he personally thrashed the “rowdies” who disturbed his camp meetings, after which he saw many of them “get religion.”.
One of the greatest frontier preachers and Methodist circuit riders was Peter Cartwright (1785–1872). He grew up in the western wilderness, and became one of the most famous evangelists and ...
May 31, 2017 · Peter Cartwright was a Methodist circuit rider known for his appearance and his direct manner, recounts the Rev. Alfred Day, who heads the church's Archives and History agency. Cartwright even told future U.S. president, General Andrew Jackson, that he would be damned to hell if he did not repent.
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Apr 28, 2010 · Peter Cartwright was one of the most colorful frontier preachers in the young United States. He died at eighty-seven, leaving behind an autobiography which became a classic as much for the exploits it recounted as for the picture it painted of frontier life.
