About Rachel Wilson
Lived 1720 – 1775 (aged 54–55). Rachel Wilson was a British christian minister.
Rachel Wilson (8 April 1720 – 18 March 1775) was an English Quaker minister from Kendal, Cumbria, who travelled extensively in Britain and the Thirteen Colonies.
Her great, great, great, great-grandson, Geoffrey Braithwaite, published a book based on her three-volume diary, titled Rachel Wilson and her Quaker Mission in Eighteenth Century America (2012, York: Sessions Books, ).
A typed transcript of her diary is held in the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, United States.
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Who was Rachel Wilson?
travelling Quaker minister 1720–1775
When was Rachel Wilson born?
Rachel Wilson was born in 1720.
When did Rachel Wilson die?
Rachel Wilson died in 1775.
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Rachel Wilson was a christian minister.
What nationality was Rachel Wilson?
Rachel Wilson was British.
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· DBpedia: Rachel Wilson (Quaker minister)
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