What happened to the word "awesome" between 1760 and 1790? [closed]

Recently I noticed a strong increase in the usage of the word "awesome" between around 1760 to 1790. Then this word became again absolutely uncommon for a while. See the usage graph below.

What happened there?

"To find out what it was is the question."

Very well, from the "teach a man to fish" series...

Here's the original Ngram:

Notice the link at the bottom. Click on that, and you'll get all the results between those dates. Problem is, most of those results will be between 1900 and 1926. But notice how the dates are embedded in the URL:

Next, all we need to do is change the URL to reflect the dates that we want to examine (in this case, the late 18th century):

and now we can see what is responsible for the so-called strong increase of the word in the late 1700s.

Remember, this only searches through published works. There's no way to tell (from this tool) whether or not the word was commonly uttered in pubs, churches, homes, farms, or courthouses – not unless someone transcribed those quotes, so that they were subsequently published in searchable articles or books.