Elizabeth Hooton : $b First Quaker woman preacher (1600-1672)Manners, Emily
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Elizabeth Hooton : $b First Quaker woman preacher (1600-1672)
Manners, Emily
Hooton, Elizabeth, approximately 1600-1672; Quakers -- Biography
many miles, where was many wild beasts both beares & wolves &
many deep waters where J waded through very deep but yᵉ Lord
delivered me, though J ware in yᵉ night to goe 20 miles but he
strengthned me over all troubles & feares, though they caried
me thither for to have been devoured, Saying they thought they
should never see me againe.
So being dilivʳed J gott among oʳ frᵈˢ through much danger by
yᵉ watʳ & after yᵗ to Road Jsland whence J tooke my Daughter
wᵗʰ me to fetch my cloathes & othʳ things wᶜʰ was about 80
miles, So when we came there for my Cloaths there Thomas
Danford made a Warrant for yᵉ Constable of Charles towne to
apprehend us & one of their own Jnhabitʳˢ Sarah Coleman an
auntient woman of Scituate where he met us in yᵉ Woods comeing
back & he asked us whether we were Quakʳˢ for he said he was to
apprehend Quakʳˢ, So J answʳᵈ wilt yᵘ apprehend thou Knowes not
who nor for wᵗ, so he said J suppose you are Quakʳˢ therefore
in his Majᵗˢ name stand, wᵗ Majesty J asked him he said yᵉ
Kings, now said J thou hast told a lye for J was later at yᵉ
King then thou & he hath made noe such Lawes, saith he J must
take you to Cambridge, but yᵉ ffriend yᵗ was inhabiter said she
would not goe except he carried her, then he met wᵗʰ a Cart &
he comanded yᵐ to aid him & set us all upon yᵉ Cart & caried us
away to Cambridg to Daniel Goggings house, but he came not home
till night & in yᵉ night they fetcht us before him & a wicked
Crew of Cambridg scollars there were yᵗ abused me both times, &
Goggins said did not we charg you yee should not come hither,
so J said we were forced thither in a Cart, J came thither to
fetch my Cloaths, because they would not let me take yᵐ wᵗʰ
me. So he asked the Jnhabiter, if she owned me, she said she
owned yᵉ truth so he wrote her down for a wandring Vagabond
Quaker yᵗ had no dwelling place, & she dwelt but a little way
of him, & he knew it & to my daughter he said dost thou own thy
Mothʳˢ religion & she said no thing, & he set her downe for
a wandring Vagabond Quaker wᶜʰ had not a dwelling place, & J
Eliz Hooton was set downe for a wandring Vagabond Quaker, who
would have bought a House among them, & this was in yᵉ night,
when yᵉ house was full of Cambridg Scollers being a Cage of
uncleane birds[83] yᵗ gave us many bad languages & yᵉ Colledg
Mʳˢ & priests sons, stood mocking of old Sarah Coleman wᶜʰ had
formerly fed them wᵗ yᵉ best things wᶜʰ she & her husband could
get, & told her she should be whipt wᵗʰ thwangs & wᵗʰ ends her
husband being a Shoemaker, & had given them yᵉ making of their
shoes, & mending, thus was she rewarded evill for good, & so
sent us all to yᵉ House of correction in yᵉ night, wᶜʰ was a
cold open place & had nothing but a little dirty straw, & dirty
old cloath.
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