Pioneer prophetess
Subtitle: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend
By: by Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Wilkinson, Jemima, 1752-1819
Description: 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.
Notes: "Bibliographical essay": p. 217-225.