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{{Infobox person

| picture=Public Universal Friend portrait.jpg

| picture = Public Universal Friend portrait.jpg

| caption= A portrait of the Public Universal Friend (in black clerical robes and white cravat) from the biography written by David Hudson in 1821.<ref name="Hudson">David Hudson, ''History of Jemima Wilkinson: A Preacheress of the Eighteenth Century'' (1821, S. P. Hull).</ref>

| caption = A portrait of the Public Universal Friend (in black clerical robes and white cravat) from the biography written by David Hudson in 1821.<ref name="Hudson">David Hudson, ''History of Jemima Wilkinson: A Preacheress of the Eighteenth Century'' (1821, S. P. Hull).</ref>

| date_birth=November 29, 1752<ref name="Wisbey">Herbert Wisbey, Jr., ''Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Public Universal Friend'' (2009 [1964], Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-7551-1), p. 3.</ref><ref name="Moyer">Paul B. Moyer, ''The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America'' (2015, Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-5413-4), p. 13.</ref>

| date_birth = November 29, 1752<ref name="Wisbey">Herbert Wisbey, Jr., ''Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Public Universal Friend'' (2009 [1964], Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-7551-1), p. 3.</ref><ref name="Moyer">Paul B. Moyer, ''The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America'' (2015, Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-5413-4), p. 13.</ref>

| place_birth=Cumberland, Rhode Island

| place_birth = Cumberland, Rhode Island

| date_death=July 1, 1819<ref>Wisbey, p. 163; Moyer, p. 243.</ref>

| date_death = July 1, 1819<ref>Wisbey, p. 163; Moyer, p. 243.</ref>

| nationality=American

| nationality = American

| pronouns=[[No pronouns]]

| pronouns = [[No pronouns]]

| gender=[[~~genderless~~]]

| gender = [[Genderless]]

| occupation=~~preacher~~

| occupation = Preacher

| known_for=~~establishing~~ a Christian religious movement, the Society of Universal Friends

| known_for = Establishing a Christian religious movement, the Society of Universal Friends

}}

The [[Public Universal Friend]]<ref group="note">Further reading about the Public Universal Friend can often be found under the birth name of Jemima Wilkinson.</ref> (November 29, 1752 – July 1, 1819), was born as a fourth-generation English-American to a Quaker family in Rhode Island, and [[sexes#Assigned female at birth|assigned female at birth]]. As a child, the person was strong and athletic, loved animals, and was an adept rider and avid reader.<ref>Wisbey (2009), pp. 2-5, 53; Moyer (2015), pp. 13-14</ref><ref name="Lamphier-Welch-331"/> The person suffered a severe illness in 1776 (age 24), and reported having died and been reanimated by God (who proclaimed there was "Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone") as a genderless evangelist named the Public Universal Friend.<ref>Wisbey (2009), pp. 10-12; Moyer (2015), pp. 12, 18; Brekus (2000), p. 82; originally spelled ''the Publick Universal Friend'', a name which referenced the term for Quakers who traveled to preach, "Public friends".</ref><ref>Michael Bronski, ''A Queer History of the United States'' (2011, Beacon Press, ISBN 978-0-8070-4465-0), p. 50; Douglas L. Winiarski, ''Darkness Falls on the Land of Light'' (2017, ISBN 1469628279), p. 430; James L. Roark, Michael P. Johnson, Patricia Cline Cohen, ''The American Promise, Combined Volume: A History of the United States'' (2012, ISBN 0312663129) p. 307.</ref>