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Pioneer prophetess : Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend

Title
Pioneer prophetess : Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend / by Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr.
Author
Wisbey, Herbert A. (Herbert Andrew), 1919-
Publication
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [1964]

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Cornell University Press, publisher.
Description
xiv, 232 pages : illustrations, facsimile, portraits; 23 cm
Summary
The fascinating and little-known story of Jemima Wilkinson, the first native-born woman to found an American religious society, who, with several hundred of her followers, forged into the wilderness of the Finger Lakes region of western New York and founded a community on Seneca Lake.
Subject
  • Public Universal Friend, 1752-1819
  • Public Universal Friend, 1752-1819
  • Wilkinson, Jemima, 1752-1819
  • Religious leaders > Biography
  • Women religious leaders > Biography
  • Women religious leaders
  • Religious leaders
Genre/Form
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • "Bibliographical essay": p. 217-225.
Contents
Birth of a prophetess -- Saith the universal friend -- Refuge in little rest -- New England ministry -- Pennsylvania -- Wilderness sanctuary -- Jerusalem -- Trials and tribulations -- Death of a prophetess -- Legend and lore.
ISBN
  • 0801404592
  • 9780801404597
LCCN
64007875
OCLC
  • ocm00789547
  • 789547
  • SCSB-176021
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library