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
[57] The furious attack on the Quaker travellers, Christopher Holder
and John Copeland, in 1657, made by the civil and Church authorities
of Salem, so affected Samuel Shattuck (c. 1620-1689), a man of good
reputation, that he interfered on behalf of the sufferers and as a
consequence was imprisoned at Boston, and whipped; and finally, in
May, 1659, he was banished the Colony. Some trouble which arose in the
early part of 1665 is referred to later (see p. 50), and it may be
that Shattuck, as a consequence, dissociated himself from Friends. His
remains were buried in the Charter Street Burying Ground in Salem; on the
tombstone the date is given in non-Quaker style—“ye sixth day of June.”
His intervention on behalf of Christopher Holder is recorded in full.
There is a picture of the stone in _The Holders of Holderness_, 1902. A
son of Shattuck appears in one of the Salem witch trials (_Witchcraft
and Quakerism_, 1908, p. 8). His descendants are still living in Salem
(_Holders_, p. 104).
[58] In a letter from John Philly to George Fox, in 1661 (Swarth. MSS.
iv. 158), there is this mention of Ralph Goldsmith: “There is one Ralph
Goldsmith, A friend & master of A ship, his house is in Jacobs street
Nere Sauorys Dock, Nere Redrife, whoe hath taken A viag for Venus
[Venice].” Little is known of this Quaker shipmaster. Besse notes one of
the name among sufferers in Barbados (_Suff._ ii. 279).
[59] Captain James Oliver is frequently mentioned in the history of
these troublous times. He led forth Robinson and Stevenson to execution,
causing drums to beat when they attempted to speak (there is a striking
illustration of this scene in _McClures Magazine_, Nov. 1906, from a
painting by Howard Pyle); and when Edward Wharton intervened in the trial
of Leddra, Oliver cried out; “Knock him on the pate” (BISHOP, _op. cit._
p. 318).
[60] BISHOP, _op. cit._ p. 345. There is in =D.= a MS. account of the
voyage of the King’s messenger.
[61] Joan Brocksopp (d. 1681) was the wife of Thomas Brocksopp, of Little
Normanton, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
[62] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 27) This may be the “E. Hootons Manscr”
of the margin of Whiting’s _Truth and Innocency Defended_, 1702, see pp.
95, 109, etc.
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