Public Universal Friend Wilkinson
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Jemima Wilkinson (1752 - 1819)

Jemima (Public Universal Friend) Wilkinson
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Died at age 66 in Jerusalem, Yates, New York, United Statesmap
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Biography

Public Universal Friend was a Friend (Quaker)
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The child of Jeremiah Wilkinson and Amy Whipple, the Public Universal Friend was brought up as a Quaker. They contracted a debilitating case of typhoid in the plague that hit Rhode Island in 1776. Upon becoming well, they stated that they had been sent by God to preach His message. They assumed the name of the Public Universal Friend. They refused to answer to any other name or to gendered pronouns. Eventually, they and the other Universal Friends of their new group settled into a small religious community in Jerusalem, Yates County, New York. The Public Universal Friend died there in 1819.

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  • History of Jemima Wilkinson: A Preacheress of the Eighteenth Century. David Hudson, B. P. Hull Publishers. Geneva, Ontario County, NY: 1821.
  • Wikipedia entry for Public Universal Friend




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