From Philadelphia To Jerusalem
Jemima Wilkinson grew weary of the criticism she received at Philadelphia and longed to bring her Society of Universal Friends to a fertile land where they could worship in peace. In March 1790, she began her group exodus, travelling upstream along the Susquehanna River through present-day Wilkes Barre, PA and Elmira, NY. On 13 April 1790, she and her followers finally reached the north end of Keuka Lake. She named her new township Jerusalem, NY, but it would later be called Penn Yan, NY.
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“It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man’s parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.”
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“And was Jerusalem builded here,
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