A very scarce locally published memoir of early Rochester, New York Methodist Circuit Rider and Revivalist, John B. Hudson. Contains excellent accounts of camp meetings dating from the late 1790's through the 1830's, revivals, local instances of religious enthusiasm, miraculous dreams, etc., an excellent and rare work describing the local and contemporary religious situation which gave rise to Joseph Smith and the formation of the Mormon / Latter Day Saints movement, etc. 

No examples in the last 100 years of auction record or in the trade at the time of cataloguing. 

Contents include: Strange Accounts of the People Called Methodists; Engages with a Baptist Family; False Reports and Unjust Views of Methodists; Attends a Baptist Revival [1796]; Reasons why the Revival Failed; Removes to Susquehannah; Becomes Enlightened and Confirmed in Methodist Doctrine; Calvinistic Controversy; Respecting Immersion; Special Prayer Meetings; Begins Reading Wesley Sermons rather than Preaching; Shocking Death of a Profane Youth - A Genuine Awakening Ensues; A Remarkable Dream; Purchases Horse and Begins Preaching the Circuit; A Powerful Awakening and Many Converted; Remarkable Awakening at Canesteo; A Boy's Death Occasioned by the Bite of a Rattle Snake; Excursion along the Genesee River; Visit of an Indian Settlement at Canesteo; Camp Meeting at Owego [1807]; Ordained by Bishop Francies Asbury; Rioters Quashed; Methodism in Connection with the Formation of Various Settlements in the Western Region of New York State; Fatal Ravages of the Epidemic of 1812; Formation of the Genesee Conference [1810]; First Camp Meeting in the Region; Methodism an Extraordinary Work; Spiritual Despotism cannot Exist while the Present Discipline is Maintained; True Idea of Christian Liberty; Rochester Now [1838]; Future Welfare of Rochester of Dependent upon its Christian Character; etc. 

Narrative of the Christian Experience, Travels and Labors of John B. Hudson, a Local Elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with Notices of the Introduction of Methodism into Various Sections of the State of New York. Written by Himself, with the Assistance of a Friend. Rochester: Printed by William Alling. 1838. 176pp.

A good - example in quarter leather, ex library. Quite rubbed. Label removed. Former Methodist Historical Society [Ohio] copy. Textually generally solid and clean with light foxing.