David B. Mintz
David B. Mintz was an early-nineteenth-century minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in North Carolina. He was a revivalist of the Second Great Awakening, and published two collections of camp meeting songs, despite the official stance of the Methodist Church which prohibited popular folk hymns.[1]
Life
Very little is known of Mintz' early life. His father may have been John Mintz, who owned land in Johnston County, North Carolina in 1761. He may also have had a brother, John Westley Martin Bryan Mintz, who bought land in New Bern in 1812.[2]
At the 1802 Methodist Episcopal Church annual conference in Virginia, Mintz was made a travelling circuit rider minister on a standard one year probationary trial,[3][4][5] and was stationed in the Amherst circuit. He was made a deacon in 1803, and was assigned the Gloucester, North Carolina circuit. In 1804, he was stationed in the Pamlico circuit, and in 1805 – only three years after becoming a minister – was made an elder, and took on the Tar River circuit with John French.[6][7] That year he published the Spiritual Song Book, his first collection of camp meeting hymns, printed by Abraham Hodge in Halifax.[1]
In 1806, he was assigned the
Hymns
Mintz became a Methodist minister during the Second Great Awakening, a
Mintz' Spiritual Song Book (1805), which collected many of these camp meeting folk hymns, claimed to be "for the pious of all denominations", but many of the songs were strongly pro-Methodist, part of their counter-offensive against the Baptists.[1]
Books
- As compiler
- As publisher
- A Guide to True Happiness by Samuel Coate (1806)[8]
- Lorenzo's Thoughts on Various Religious Opinions by Lorenzo Dow (1806)[8]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Jackson, George Pullen (1975). White and Negro Spirituals: Their Life Span and Kinship. New York: Da Capo Press. pp. 55, 135, 297.
- ^ a b c d Moore, Alan Gregg; Vogels, Bob Jackson (1992). Mintz Families of the Old South. pp. 674–677.
- ^ a b Lee, Jesse (1810). A Short History of the Methodists, in the United States of America. p. 337.
- ^ Bennett, William Wallace (1871). Memorials of Methodism in Virginia. p. 393.
- ^ Asbury, Francis (1958). Clark, Elmer Talmage; Potts, J. Manning; Payton, Jacob S. (eds.). The Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury. Vol. 2. London and Nashville: Epworth Press and Abingdon Press. p. 329.
- ^ a b c Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for the Years 1773–1828. Vol. 1. New-York: T. Mason and G. Lane. 1840. pp. 101, 105, 107, 111, 120, 124, 132, 140, 145.
- ^ Grill, C. Franklin (1979). Early Methodist Meeting Houses in Wake County, North Carolina. Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Conference Commission on Archives and History. p. 134.
- ^ a b c Shaw, Ralph R.; Shoemaker, Richard H. (1961). American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1806. New York: Scarecrow Press. pp. 42, 58.
- ^ "Died". The Newbernian and North Carolina Advocate. July 27, 1852. p. 3.
- ^ "List of Members: St. John's Lodge, No. 3, Newbern (1812)". Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina for 1813. Raleigh: Alexander Lucas, Minerva Press. 1814. p. 16.
- ^ "North Carolina, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1665–1998 for Thomas Armstrong". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 2024-03-12.