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WILKINSON, Jemima, religious impostor, born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, in 1753; died in Jerusalem, Yates County, New York, 1 July, 1819. She was brought up as a Quaker, and at the age of twenty, having recovered after a severe fever and an apparent suspension of life, she claimed to have been raised from the dead, to have received a divine commission, and to be able to work miracles. She was shrewd and persuasive, and, having secured numerous followers; retired with them in 1789 to a tract of 14.000 acres which had been purchased in Yates county, New York, and which she named Jerusalem. She assumed the name of "Universal Friend," was accompanied by two "witnesses," Sarah Richards and Rachel Miller, and insisted on the Shaker doctrine of celibacy. The exercises of her religious meetings also resembled those of that sect. When she preached she stood in the door of her bedchamber, wearing a waistcoat, stock, and white silk cravat. Though she recommended poverty, her dupes enabled hey to live in luxury, and she owned lands that were purchased in the name of Rachel Miller. After her death the sect was entirely dispersed. See "History of Jemima Wilkinson," by David Hume (Geneva, New York, 1821).
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