John Carroll introducing Nathan Bangs's
published account of the Hay Bay camp-meeting
Carroll Case and His Cotemporaries 113-114
During this year [1805], as Camp Meetings
were beginning to be found a great instrumentality for good,
one was introduced for the first time into Canada, and that
one was held on Mr Case's Circuit. It was held on the land
of Peter Huff, on the shore of Hay Bay, not far from the
Adolphustown Chapel. The preachers present, beside Case and
Ryan, were Pickett, Keeler, Madden, and Bangs. We give an
account of it from the graphic pen of Dr. Abel Stevens,
found in his life of the Rev. Dr. Bangs, who was present,
and from whose personal description the account is
engrossed. I give this rather than the account by Mr
Playter, it being the testimony of an eyewitness and an
actor in the scenes.