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Daniel Leeds (November 16, 1651- September 28, 1720) was a Quaker author and then a non-Quaker author. He was born Essex, England. About 1676 he came to the Burlington, West Jersey area. Leeds Point, New Jersey, which was after Daniel Leeds, was where his and his family lived. Leeds Point was at Atlantic Ocean. About 1689 (or thereabouts) become a Epicscopal member, because he have disputes among the Quakers of Philadephia particularly an almanacs published in 1688[1] and a philoshipcal treatise, The Temple of Wisdom[2] He died in South Jersey in September 28, 1720.[3]

Leeds non-Quakers writing included A Challenge to Caleb Pusey (1701).[4] This joined the Keithian Controversy, a dispute with Quakers themselves. Quakers, particularly Caleb Pusey, Francis Daniel Pastorius, John Simcock, Thomas Fitzwater, Samuel Jennings, and Arthur Cooke, and a large number were very upset.[5] George Keith[6] and Keithian (mostly modest Quakers) were expelled or at mininum silenced.[7] Keithian were eventually transfered to other religious sects (more mainstream the Quakers). But it is slow. Thirty years or so with the tradition Quakers and Keithian before it resolved itself. Leeds and Keith were associated each other. Keith and Leeds both emigranted to Anglicans rather the Quakers.

And Leeds was associated with Kabbalah, especially The Temple of Wisdom (1688). With Cotton Mather writing about Jews about 1720s, an essay, which presumably by George Keith, was extensively relied upon. Leeds was leading Christian Quaker, after George Keith left Pennsylvania after 1694.[8]

Daniel Leeds was the origin of the Jersey Devil, because of Leeds' non-conformity religious and politcal themes.[9]

Personal Life

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Daniel Leeds was married four times. We do not know of first wife. Ann Stacy (married 1681, death 1681), Dorothy Young (March 1683 to 1699, death 1699), Jane (Revell) Abbot-Smout (unknow marriage death to 1720, his death). Dorothy Young bore eight children. Titan Leeds was his and Dorothy son; he was a publisher at Philadelphia. Titan Leeds was born in 1699 and died in 1738.

References

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  1. ^ Daniel Leeds, Library of Congress. See also Daniel Leeds, An almanack and ephemerides for the year of Christian account 1693 ... (Philadelphia, William Bradford, 1693). Sara S. Gronim, Everday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York 40, 43-45, 47-49, 56-60, 67-68 (2007) (wanted to put astronogical in Enlightment); Sara S. Gronim, The Neo-Platonist of New Jersey: Daniel Leeds, Mystic, Schismatic (Am. Hist. Soc., January 2011).
  2. ^ Daniel Leeds, The Temple of Wisdom for the Little World, in Two Parts. The First Philosophically Divine, Treating of the Being of All Beings, and Whence Everything hath its Original, as Heaven, Hell, Angels, Men and Devils, Earth, Stars and Elements... (Philadelphia, William Bradford, 1688).
  3. ^ "Daniel Leeds (1651-1720) - Find a Grave Memorial". www.findagrave.com.
  4. ^ See, e.g., Daniel Leeds, A Challenge to Caleb Pusey, and a Check to his Lyes & Forgeries, ... (New York, William Bradford, 1701?); Daniel Leeds, A Trumpet Sounded Out of the Wilderness of America which may Serve as a Warning to the Government and People of England to beware of Quakerisme. ... Also how they deny Jesus of Nazareth to be the Christ ... (New York, William Bradford, 1699); Daniel Leeds, The Second Part of the Mystry of Fox-craft Introduced with about Thirty Quotations Truly Taken from the Quaker Books, and Well Attested by Men Learned and Pious; proving all, and more than all the charges isn F. Bugg's Bomb of half a sheet... (New York, William Bradford, 1705). See also Peter Thompson, Rum, Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Eighteenth Century Public Life in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia 217 (1999).
  5. ^ Caleb Pusey, Satan's Harbinger Encountered ... Being Something by Way of Answer to Daniel Leeds his Book Entituled News of a Trumpet Sounding in the Wldernesse &c. ... (Philadelphia, Reynier Jansen, 1700); Caleb Pusey, Daniel Leeds, justly rebuked for abusing William Penn and his foly and falls-hoods (Philadelphia, Reynier Jansen, 1702); George Keith, New England's spirit of persecution transmitted to Pennsylvania ... in the tryal of Peter Boss, George Keith, Thomas Budd, and William Bradford, at the sessions held at Philadelphia ... December, 1692 (Philadelphia, William Bradford, 1692); Edward J. Cody, The Price of Perfectation: The Irony of George Keith, 8 Pennsylvania Hist. 1, 6-8 (1972).
  6. ^ J. William Frost, The Keithian Controversy in Early Pennsylvania (1980).
  7. ^ J. William Frost, The Records of the First "American " Denomination: The Keithians of Pennsylvania, 1694-1700, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 89 (1996); Jon Bulter, "Into Pennsylvania's Spiritual Abyss: The Rise and Fall of the Later Keithians, 1693-1703," 101 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 151-70 (1977); Jon Butler, "Gospel Order Improved": The Keithian Schism and the Exercise of Quaker Ministerial Authority in Pennsylvania, 31 William & Mary Q. 431-452 (1974).
  8. ^ Brian Ogren, Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World 19-24, 30-31, 53, 55 (2021).
  9. ^ Brian Regal & Frank J. Esposito, The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster 2-3, 18-41, 42-51 (2018).

Sources

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  • Sara S. Gronim, Everday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural Wolrd in Colonial New York (Rutgers University Press, 2007).
  • Sara S. Gronim, The Neo-Platonist of New Jersey: Daniel Leeds, Mystic, Schismatic (Am. Hist. Soc. 2011).
  • Barry Levy, Quakers and the American Family (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).
  • Gary Nash, Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726 144-60 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968).
  • Brian Ogren, Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World (New York University Press, 2021).
  • Brian Regal & Frank J. Esposito, The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019).
  • Marion Barber Stowell, American Almanacs and Feuds, 9 Early American Literature 278-81 (1975).
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