Legacy
She and her followers were the first white people that the Native Americans in this region ever saw and traded with. She claimed to be called "Chief" by the Seneca nation-tribe. The Jemima Wilkinson House is still standing in Jerusalem, New York, on a List of Registered Historic Places in Yates County, New York, located on the same branch of Keuka Lake as the birthplace of Seneca Red Jacket.
Wilkinson was one of the first female visionaries of religion and Women's rights in the United States. Her followers pioneered the area between Seneca Lake and Keuka Lake, erecting a grain Mill at present-day Dresden, NY.
The Universal Society of Friends that Jemima Wilkinson led to upstate New York believe that the soul of a human personality finds an eternal continuance. Thus, when the person is departed, the Society used the term, "to leave time" instead of "to die". Jemima Wilkinson left time on 1 July 1819.
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