The unquiet world
Subtitle: the Public Universal Friend and America's first frontier
By: by Frances Dumas
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Yates Heritage Tours Project, LLC
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780982805800
Subjects: Quaker women; History; Society of Universal Friends; Women religious leaders; Biography; Women evangelists; Women and religion; Church history; Genealogy
Description: In 1776 a young Rhode Islander named Jemima Wilkinson had a vision that led her to become the first American born woman to found a religion, the Society of Universal Friends. In 1788, Jemima, or the Friend as she was then known, and her followers were the first to settle America's new frontier. Her fascinating story has been told many times over the years. But until The Unquiet World no one has explained the forces that led to the Friend's unique movement and how it influenced the history of Yates County, western New York and the United States.No one has had access to Arnold James Potter's typescript The Life and Times of the Universal Friend, a biography of more than 900 pages, as a resource. This source was based on diaries, letters, memoranda, testimony from litigation, dream-books, original deeds, maps and a mass of other material inherited from his grandfather, James Brown Jr., the Friend's steward. This source is quoted frequently in the book. -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-292) and index.