Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Abner WOOLMAN
"QUAKER BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES of Ministers and Elders, and other
concerned members of the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia [1682-1800]"
Edited by Willard Heiss (Indianapolis: 1972)
Page 307
" ABNER WOOLMAN. Abner Woolman, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Woolman, was born in New Jersey, about the year 1724. He was educated by these faithful Friends as becometh the truth, and giving head to the teaching of grace, became useful in the church. He was humble in his deportment, a lover of peace, and found of quietness and retirement. Whilst striving to avoid a close intercourse with the word and its concerns, he was yet very useful in settling any difference which arose among his Neighbours. He was a friend to all the afflicted,-- and had a warm feeling of sympathy for the poor negroes, having a decided testimony against the custom whereby they were deprived of their natural rights. He was much esteemed by his friends, and for several years filled the station of an Elder at Mansfield, part of Burlington Monthly Meeting. He frequently was engaged to labor in Meetings for business, and in private amongst his Neighbours, to discourage much use of spiritous liquors themselves, and against furnishing much of it to their workmen,
believing that a liberal distribution of them at harvest, was productive
of evil. He deemed their use prompted to a light and noisy behavior, unbecoming grateful receivers of the temporal favours bestowed on them, and at variance with that sobriety which is consistent with our Christian profession.
For some years before his close, through bodily weakness, he
found it extremely difficult to attend religious meetings, yet he was very seldom absent. He departed this life Eleventh month 4th, 1771, aged about 47 years."
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