Early Life
Jemima was the daughter of Amy (nee Whipple) and Jeremiah Wilkinson, the cousin of Stephen Hopkins, in Cumberland, Rhode Island. She attended silent worship with Quakers at the Smithfield Meeting House with her family. As a young woman in the mid 1770's, she attended meetings with New Light Baptists.
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