Jacob Post (1774–1855) was an English

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and a religious author. He wrote accounts of two founding Quakers:

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and

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Life

Jacob Post was born in

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, on 12 September 1774. His parents, John and Rosamund Post, enrolled him at the relatively new

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in Yorkshire, which was run by the Society of Friends. By 1787 Post had moved to Islington and was writing on behalf of the emerging evangelical section of the Quakers. In 1812 he founded a local section of the

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for North London and Islington. In 1837, his eighteen-year-old son died. In the following year he published ''Extracts from the Diary of Frederick James Post'' under joint authorship. In 1840 Post's portrait featured in a painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention in London. His wife Elizabeth Post died in 1844; Post died on 1 April 1855 at his house in

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. Post's output includes two children's books, accounts of founders of the ''Society of Friends'' –

and

, the founder of Pennsylvania – and matters of religious dispute in his time.Charlotte Fell-Smith, "Post, Jacob (1774–1855)", rev. K. D. Reynolds, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford, UK: OUP, 200
Retrieved 19 January 2010

Works include

*''Extracts from the Diary of Frederick James Post and other Manuscripts, with a Memoir'' (1838) *''Some Popular Customs amongst Christians questioned and compared with Gospel Precepts and Examples'' (1839) *''On the History and Mystery of (those called) the Sacraments; shewing them to be Jewish Institutions...'' (1846) *''The Bible: the Book for All'' (1848) *''Popular Memoir of W. Penn'' (1850) *''A Brief Memoir of George Fox... for the Information of Strangers'' (1854) *''The Lord's Supper its origin and history'' (1854)

References

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