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The design of the following pages is to present the curious public with a connected and intelligible account of the early history, the travels and the eccentricities of that theological 'knight errant,' Lorenzo Dow. His journal, of which this work is an abridgement, is both too bulky and too expensive, for general reading. It is moreover crowded with much unnecessary detail; of no interest whatever to the great mass of the reading public. These unimportant incidents are here omitted, while every fact necessary to illustrate his character, and every transaction which is either curious, remarkable or profitable, is retained.
The language of Lorenzo has been employed wherever possible, excepting that it has been carefully corrected and occasionally abridged of a redundant phrase, without changing the meaning of the writer. The sense of the original journal has been no where designedly mutilated.
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The Dealings of God, Man, and the Devil: As Exemplified in the Life, Experience, and Travels of Lorenzo Dow, in a Period of Over Half a Century : ... : To Which Is Added the Vicissitudes of Life,
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The stranger in Charleston!, or, The trial and confession of Lorenzo Dow: addressed to the United States in general, and South-Carolina in particular.
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Title: The stranger in Charleston!, or, The trial and c...)
Title: The stranger in Charleston!, or, The trial and confession of Lorenzo Dow : addressed to the United States in general, and South-Carolina in particular.
Author: Lorenzo Dow
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
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PublicationDate: 18220101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
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Collation: 93 p. ; 18 cm
History of Cosmopolite: Or, The Writings of Rev. Lorenzo Dow : Containing His Experience and Travels, in Europe and America, Up to Near His Fiftieth Year
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Lorenzo Dow was an American evangelist. His autobiography was at one time the second best selling book next to the Bible. Thousands of children were named after him with Lorenzo Dow remaining a popular name until the early 1900s.
Background
Dow was born on October 16, 1777 in Coventry, Connecticut. He was fifth of the six children of Humphrey Dean and Tabitha (Parker) Dow. His parents, natives of Coventry, brought up their children frugally, educating them, as Lorenzo said, "both in religion and common learning. "
Career
In 1794, Dow began preaching, making his evangelistic excursions on horseback, and in 1796 he was accepted into a tentative connection with the Methodistministry - only to be suspended after three months. Then he preached again independently, desperately poor and generally ill, but frequently within one week traveling as much as 150 miles and preaching as often as twenty times.
In 1798, readmitted to his former status with the Methodists, he soon afterward, though opposed by his ecclesiastical superiors, set out to carry his gospel into Ireland. After about eighteen turbulent months there, he returned to New York in May 1801, and almost immediately left by sea for Georgia. He preached there for a few months, returned to New York, and in November 1802 again turned southward, this time overland, proclaiming everywhere his threats of hell, and hopes of paradise, bringing in many converts. He visited the Indians, delivered the first Protestant sermon ever listened to in Alabama, talked in Charleston freely enough to be, at a later time, convicted for libel, and turning northward, preached through the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Virginia.
From his second marriage on, Dow wrote more and preached less, issuing, after his habit instituted in 1804, a chaotic torrent of egoistic pamphlets, and constantly revising his journals. Living on his farm in Connecticut, he accumulated affidavits about his own good character, compounded medicines recommended for biliousness, quarreled acrimoniously, litigated, to his sorrow, with his neighbors about a mill race, and stormed incessantly against Whigs, anti-Masons, Catholics, and finally against Methodists, who, he said, were badly tainted with popery.
Dow died on February 2, 1834, in Georgetown, D. C.
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Connections
Remembering that in Ireland he had seen "the first pair that I thought were happy in marriage”, Dow decided to take a wife, and accordingly on September 3, 1804, in Westernville, New York, he was married. The bride, Peggy Holcomb, born in 1780 in Granville, Massachusetts, entered into the union upon the express understanding that she would never hinder him in his roamings. Leaving her the day after the wedding, he began a swing to Mississippi and return, preaching constantly, and jotting down in his diary notes of dreams and of actual occurrences.
By April 1805 he was home again; in July he started for the Carolinas; in November, taking Peggy with him, he embarked for England. There Peggy bore a daughter, Letitia, who soon died. They returned to America in June 1807, and together, from Boston to Natchez and Natchez to Boston, they toured the country, he, reputedly rich both in money and in the gift of prophecy, and she everywhere and always abetting him.
In 1818 he again went to England, but soon after his return in 1820, Peggy died. Three months later he was married to Lucy Dolbeare of Montville, Connecticut.