Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Peter Cartwright (1785-1873) was a 19th century "hellfire and brimstone" preacher born in Amherst County, Virginia, Virginia, United States. Shortly after the American Revolutionary War, his family moved to Kentucky. He personally baptized twelve thousand people. External links Auto-biography from Illinois Historical Digitization Project http://www.cantonbaptist.org/halloffame/cartwright.htm This article is a stub article. You can help Wikipedia by improving it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.