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Last name Wilkinson
First name Jemina
Display name Jemima Wilkinson
Other names Jemima Wilkinson;Gimima Wilkinson
Birth date 1752
Death date 1819
Birth place rhode
Gender f
Affiliations review
Bio notes Religious leader. b. R.I. Quaker family. Est. Jerusalem, a Messianic colony in Yates Co., N.Y. (1789); well known throughout New England and Pa. for her views regarding Public Universal Friends. Called self the "Publick Universal Friend" and identified as neither female nor male.

Mentioned in:

Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country

John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

Joshua Sharpless' Journal [Visit to Upper Canada and Parts Adjacent], 1797

Life of Thomas Eddy

Some Account of our Journey to Cannandaigue