Person:Alice Burton (2)

"Alice Alderson, nee Burton, was an important "public" or ministering Friend (i.e. Quaker). She travelled widely in the Quaker Ministry, visiting Scotland in 1713 and the South of England three years later. Her elder child, William, was born in Ravenstondale, 23rd June, 1719, and the following year she visited Ireland. In 1722 she visited Cumberland, and then years later crossed to America. Her brother, John Burton, whose ministry began in 1707 in Cumberland, visited America in 1733, and "The Bishoprick" (or Durham) in 1735 accompanied by Thomas Burton. In 1736, four years after going to America, Alice Alderson attended the half year's meeting at Dublin, and later travelled in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The next year she visited Northumberland and the Bishoprick, 1740 Cumberland, 1741 Lancashire and East and South Yorkshire, 1743 Ireland, 1745 Yorkshire, and 1748 Cheshire and Derbyshire. She died in 1765 or 1766."^[1]

Testimony

"In the ministry, though she had not much human learning, she was frequently furnished with copious expressions, well adapted to the matter she had to deliver, and enabled to speak feelingly to the state of the meetings and individuals"

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Bernard Thistlethwaite. The Thistlethwaite Family. (Headley Bros. (private) 1910).
2. ↑ England. Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. (FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Findmypast).

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3.   Piety Promoted.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 England. Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837.