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See also:WOOLMAN, See also:JOHN (1720-1772) , See also:American Quaker preacher, was See also:born in See also:Northampton, See also:Burlington See also:county, New See also:Jersey, in See also:August 17 20. When he was twenty-one he went to See also:Mount See also:Holly, where he was a clerk in a See also:store, opened a school for poor See also:children and became a tailor. After 1743 he spent most of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time as an itinerant preacher, visiting meetings of the See also:Friends in various parts of the colonies. In 177 2 he sailed for See also:London to visit Friends in the See also:north of See also:England, especially See also:Yorkshire, and died in See also:York ofsmallpox on the 7th of See also:October. He spoke and wrote against See also:slavery, refused to draw up See also:wills transferring slaves, induced many of the Friends to set their negroes See also:free, and in 176o at See also:Newport, Rhode See also:Island, memorialized the Legislature to forbid the slave See also:trade. In 1763 at Wehaloosing (now Wyalusing), on the Susquehanna, he preached to the See also:Indians; and he always urged the whites to pay the Indians for their lands and to forbid the See also:sale of liquor to them.
Woolman wrote Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754; See also:part ii., 1762); Considerations on Pure See also:Wisdom and Human Policy, on Labor, on See also:Schools, and on the Right Use of the See also:Lord's Outward Gifts (1768) ; Considerations on the True See also:Harmony of See also:Man-See also:kind, and How it is to be Maintained (177o) ; and A Word of Remembrance and Caution to the See also:Rich (1793) ; and the most important of his writings, The See also:Journal of John Woolman's See also:Life and Travels se the Service of the See also:Gospel (1775), which was begun in his See also:thirty-See also:sixth See also:year and was continued until the year of his See also:death. The best-known edition is that prepared, with an introduction, by John G. See also:Whittier in 1871. The See also:Works of John Woolman appeared in two parts at See also:Philadelphia, in 1774-1775, and have often been republished; a See also:German version was printed in 1852.
End of Article: WOOLMAN, JOHN (1720-1772)
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