biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1752–1819)
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| biography:
| Protestant religious leader, born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA. The pretty, clever daughter of a prosperous farmer, she became deeply religious at age 18 after hearing George Whitefield preach. Some years later she claimed to have fallen into a trance, died, and awakened with a new soul, that of a prophetess. Calling herself the Public Universal Friend, she drew large crowds preaching in New England. Encountering increasing antagonism, she established a religious colony, Jerusalem, in W New York (1789–90). Her followers increasingly objected to her dictatorial ways, and she lived out her late years estranged and alone. |
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