Catherine Payton Phillips

Catherine Phillips, born Payton (16 March 1727 16 August 1794) was a Quaker Minister, who travelled in England, Wales, Scotland, Holland and the American colonies. Her Christian name is sometimes spelt "Catharine".

Biography

Catherine Payton was born at Dudley, Worcestershire, the daughter of Henry Payton (1671–1746), and his second wife, Ann (c.1673–1774), daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Fowler of Evesham. She did not attend school until her late teens but studied and read widely, at home. She spent much time reading to her paralysed father.

She was recognised as a Minister at Dudley Meeting around 1748, and soon started her many travels, which included a long period in the American colonies.

Catherine Payton met William Phillips, a copper agent [1] and widower, in 1749 but did not marry him until 1772, when she moved to his home in Redruth, Cornwall.

She died on 16 August 1794 and was buried at the Quaker Burial Ground, Come-to-Good, in the parish of Kea, near Truro. Her stepson, James Phillips, a Quaker printer, published her Memoirs and some other writing after her death. James's sons, Richard Phillips (1778–1851) and William Phillips (1775–1828) were Fellows of the Royal Society.

Publications

  1. Discourse delivered at Fryar's Meeting House, Bristol 5th of Fifth Month 1779 p. 149-171
  2. Prayer: discourse delivered at Westminster 5th Month 19th, 1782 p. 172-176
  3. A Discourse at the Meeting-House in Westminster 17th of the 5th Month 1780 p. 177-195.[4]

References

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Notes
  1. A Copper Agent managed a copper mine in Cornwall.
  2. 1 2 3 "The later years of Catharine Phillips" by A.G.K. Leonard in Friends Quarterly Vol.11, No.2 (April 1957), pp91-94. Leonard discusses the content and context of this pamphlet.
  3. 1 2 Two copies of this work are available free of charge online: University of Wisconsin-Madison on GoogleBooks and Princeton at Internet Archive.
  4. Some discourses . . Samuel Fothergill is available online at GoogleBooks - at pp.147 to 195
  5. John Kendall - ODNB article by David J. Hall, ‘Kendall, John (1726–1815)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 20 Sept 2010
  6. For Gentleman's Magazine reference, See Sources above.

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