Elias Hicks

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1748

Birth Place: Long Island

Death Date: 1830

Death Place: Long Island

Affiliations: Society of Friends

Notes: Long Island Quaker minister; was first recognized as a minister in 1778. Leader of the liberal Hicksite branch of Soc. of Friends during doctrinal split (1827-28); married Jemima Seaman in 1771.

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