COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes papers of the "Universal Friend," her followers, and their descendants, relating largely to the migration of Wilkinson and her followers from Rhode Island to what is now Yates County, New York, the development of their settlements, their conflict and litigation over land, and their religious life. Included are minutes of meetings, deeds, the last will of the "Universal Friend" and others, journals, sermons, accounts, documents covering the Boston and Massachusetts Pre-emptions, the Gore Land Case, the Yates County Bank, the Second National Bank, President Jackson, temperance, and other subjects; and letters to and from Jemima Wilkinson, Sarah Richards, Ruth Richards, Rachel Malin, the Malin family, Alice Hazzard, James Parker, Arnold Potter, Thomas Hathaway, William Carter, Ruth Spencer, William Turpin, and others.
Dates
- 1772-1849.
Creator
- Wilkinson, Jemima, 1752-1819. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Religious leader.
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. After preaching in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, she established a colony (1790) on Keuka Lake in Western New York for herself and her followers. Soon after the Friend's death in 1819, the community disintegrated entirely.
Extent
2 microfilm reels. (2 microfilm reels.)
Abstract
Includes papers of the "Universal Friend," her followers, and their descendants, relating largely to the migration of Wilkinson and her followers from Rhode Island to what is now Yates County, New York, the development of their settlements, their conflict and litigation over land, and their religious life. Included are minutes of meetings, deeds, the last will of the "Universal Friend" and others, journals, sermons, accounts, documents covering the Boston and Massachusetts Pre-emptions, the Gore Land Case, the Yates County Bank, the Second National Bank, President Jackson, temperance, and other subjects; and letters to and from Jemima Wilkinson, Sarah Richards, Ruth Richards, Rachel Malin, the Malin family, Alice Hazzard, James Parker, Arnold Potter, Thomas Hathaway, William Carter, Ruth Spencer, William Turpin, and others.
Physical Description
Correspondence
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Date completed:
- August 1987
- EAD encoding:
- Evan Fay Earle, July 2007
- Accounts.
- Carter, William.
- Cults.
- Hathaway, Thomas.
- Hazzard, Alice.
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.
- Journals (notebooks).
- Malin family.
- Malin, Rachel.
- Parker, James.
- Photographs.
- Potter, Arnold.
- Publick Universal Friend.
- Real property, Exchange of.
- Religion -- Connecticut.
- Religion -- New York (State)
- Religion -- Pennsylvania.
- Richards, Ruth.
- Richards, Sarah.
- Second National Bank
- Sermons.
- Spencer, Ruth.
- Temperance.
- Turpin, William.
- Wills.
- Women and religion.
- Yates County Bank
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by
- Date
- July 2007
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu