Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Douglas L. Winiarski

So many of the principal itinerants descended on Hartford and the surrounding towns during the spring and summer of 1741 that minister Daniel Wadsworth complained of “much Talk and running after new preachers” among his parishioners.