As in many other backwoods communities, the struggling farmers in the town of Adams, N.H., gravitated toward low-church religious denominations. Like their counterparts in the bony hills of South Conway and Eaton, where flat land was not to be found and soil lay thin between the rocks, the Freewill Baptists found a warm reception among the population.

The political rise of Andrew Jackson galvanized those hardscrabble farmers against the aristocratic Federalists whose champion their town had been named for.

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