Introduction Part I: Settlement 1. Treaty with the Six Nations 2. A General View of New York 3. New York Population Growth 4. New York's Environmental Transformation Part II: Missionaries 5. Timothy Mather Cooley's Missionary Journal 6. Rev. Jacob Cram's Mission 7. Sagoyewatha's Reply to Rev. Jacob Cram 8. Constitution of the Waterloo Missionary Society 9. Reports of Episcopal Missionaries 10. Missionaries to Sailors and Canal Workers Part III: Revivals 11. Charles Finney's Argument for Religious Revivals 12. Revivals at Marcellus and Amber 13. Report of New York Revivals 14. Bradford King's Conversion 15. Nancy Alexander Tracy's Conversion 16. A Convention to Regulate Revivals 17. Theodore Weld on a Revival's Aftermath 18. Theodore Weld on Revivals and Women's Rights 19. The Grimké Sisters on the Limits of Revivalism and Reform Part IV: Church Development 20. Brothertown and Religious Autonomy 21. A Baptist Constitution 22. Baptist Trustee Minutes 23. Methodist Population Report 24. Proposal for a Methodist College 25. Building the First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Seneca Falls 26. The Growth of Presbyterianism in the Synod of Geneva 27. A Presbyterian Congregation's Confession of Faith and Covenant 28. Race and Ministry in Wayne County Part V: Kingdoms of God 29. Joseph Smith's Visions 30. Mormonism's Early Critics 31. Parley P. Pratt Encounters the Book of Mormon 32. William Miller's Biblical Calculations 33. William Miller Defends His Prediction 34. A Historical Rebuttal of Millerism 35. Matthias the Prophet Part VI: Intentional Communities 36. Shaker Charity 37. The Church Family at Watervliet 38. Account of the Shaker Settlement of Sodus Bay 39. Indenture of Susan Remer to the Shakers of Watervliet 40. Shakers and the Education of Children 41. A Shaker Hymn 42. Complex Marriage 43. John Humphrey Noyes's Home Talks 44. A Rebuttal of Noyes and Perfectionism Part VII: Religion and New York Politics 45. Abijah Beckwith's Reflections on a Political Career 46. Selections from New York's 1821 Constitution 47. An Anti-Masonic Declaration of Independence 48. Report of the Cayuga County Temperance Society 49. A Sabbatarian Convention 50. The Anti-rent Wars 51. Selections from New York's 1846 Constitution 52. Abijah Beckwith's Consideration of Civil Rights for Women Part VIII: Abolitionism and Ultraism in the Burned-over District 53. Rev. Thomas James on Antislavery Activism 54. New York Governor William L. Marcy Denounces Abolitionism 55. New York Methodists on Abolitionism 56. Establishing an Antislavery Newspaper 57. Resolutions of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society 58. Creating Antislavery Petitions 59. How to Be an Abolitionist 60. Gerrit Smith's Critique of the Clergy on Abolitionism 61. The Jerry Rescue Conclusion: The Legacy of the Burned-over District

Carefully organized and persuasive, New York's Burned Over District makes a compelling case for the importance of the Burned-Over District in American history. This documentary reader on religious revivals in that region during the early-19th century uses a combination of printed and manuscript sources to covers a broad range of revivals that deserve a closer look.