Hume, Sophia Wigington (1702–1774)
Hume, Sophia Wigington (1702–1774)
American Quaker minister and writer. Born Sophia Wigington, 1702, in Charleston, SC; died Jan 26, 1774, presumably in London, England; dau. of Henry and Susanna (Bayley) Wigington; m. Robert Hume, 1721 (died c. 1737); children: 1 daughter, 1 son.
Experienced religious conversion and abandoned life of comfort in favor of Quaker simplicity (c. 1740); preached to public meetings in SC and PA; published An Exhortation to the Inhabitants of South-Carolina (1748); recognized as minister by monthly meeting in London (c. 1763); published A Caution to Such as Observe Days and Times (c. 1763).
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