Malin v. Malin
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
Appeal from chancery. Jemima Wilkinson, in 1776, became the founder or head of a sect called “ Universal Friends.” She was known among her followers by the name of “the Universal Friendj” and answered to, and acknowledged no other name. In 1791, she removed from Pennsylvania, with a number of followers, into the state of New-York, and took up her residence in the county of Ontario.
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Appeal from chancery. Jemima Wilkinson, in 1776, became the founder or head of a sect called “ Universal Friends.” She was known among her followers by the name of “the Universal Friendj” and answered to, and acknowledged no other name. In 1791, she removed from Pennsylvania, with a number of followers, into the state of New-York, and took up her residence in the county of Ontario. Several of her adherents had preceded her in locating themselves in the town of Benton, adjacent to the Seneca Lake, and others followed her. There prevailed among her people an opinion that she could not hold land…
1Opinion of the Court
Sutherland, Justice of the Supreme Court.
The original bill in this cause, was filed in June, 1811, by Rachel Malin, complainant, against Enoch Malin and Eliza, his wife, Elnathan Botsford, jun., Asahel Stone, jun., Asa Ingraham and Truman Slone, defendants. It sets forth substantially, that a religious society or association was formed and established at Jerusalem, in the county of Ontario, by Jemima Wilkinson, denominated the society-of Universal Friends, of which the said Jemima was the head, and was known by the appellation of the Universal Friend; that, for the support of herself, and the…
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