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made her first and most sizeable donation to the Society of Friends
: a one-thousand-year lease of an estate in the town of Cambridge, valued at a thousand pounds.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wealth and Poverty
Anne Docwra
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made her will. Although poorer than ten years previously, she added to former gifts by herself and her husband to the Society of Friends
, with twenty pounds to buy a burial ground, besides...
Wealth and Poverty
Hester Biddle
Here she received a regular five-shilling charity stipend from the Friends
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Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
