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Jemima Wilkinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jemima Wilkinson House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Biography of Jemima Wilkinson, founder of a new religious order called ... Jemima Wilkinson of Cumberland, Rhode Island was a 25 year old woman in 1776, and shortly thereafter became the first American-born woman to found a religious group. Her initial success was stunning.
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While it is not entirely clear whether she had any direct connection with the small band of "quaking" fanatics organized by John Rogers of New London in 1674, Jemima Wilkinson was surely a product of the region's fervent religious climate, her legend a monument to its very fundamentalism.
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Wilkinson, Jemima. Wilkinson, Jemima. Information about Wilkinson, Jemima in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... Wilkinson Middle School; Wilkinson polynomial; Wilkinson power divider; Wilkinson power divider; Wilkinson Sword; Wilkinson Township, Minnesota; Wilkinson Township, MN;
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"Unruly Women": Jemima Wilkinson and Deborah Sampson Gannett ... In October Jemima Wilkinson of Cumberland, Rhode Island, became ill with a fever and had a vision in which she died and her body was now by the Spirit of Light; repudiating her birth name, Wilkinson declared herself the founder of a new religion,
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Encyclopedia article about Wilkinson, Jemima. Information about Wilkinson, Jemima in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... See D. Hudson, Memoir of Jemima Wilkinson (1824, repr. 1972); H. A. Wisbey, Pioneer Prophetess (1964).
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Related Category: Protestant Christianity: Biographies ... 1752–1819, American religious leader, b. Cumberland, R.I. As a girl she was powerfully impressed by the sermons of George Whitefield and also aspired to emulate ... See D. Hudson, Memoir of Jemima Wilkinson (1824, repr. 1972); H. A. Wisbey, Pioneer Prophetess (1964).
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Originally a Rhode Island Quaker, Jemima Wilkinson believed that she had died following an illness in 1776, and later arose as the "Publick Universal Friend," who was sent by God to preach against sin.
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Jemima Wilkinson was a woman ahead of her time. In many ways, however, she was also a product of her time: growing up in what had been Puritan New England, she was conscious of the sinfulness of man. ... Jemima Wilkinson was born in the town of Cumberland in Rhode Island in 1758 of Quaker parents. Thus she grew up in...
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