Joseph Hoag (1762–1846) was a prominent

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minister in New York and Vermont.Joseph Hoag papers
Swarthmore College He established the Hoag gristmill in the 1790s. Hoag is known for his vision of 1803 "which predicted an

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" as well as his journal, published in 1861, that "precipitated a schism at Scipio Monthly Meeting into Otisite and Kingite groups." He was married to Huldah Hoag (1762–1850) who was also a Quaker minister. A short memoir about her was written by Lindley Murray Hoag. Many of their ten children also served in the Quaker faith.

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has a collection of his papers and family correspondence. Lindley Hoag's three children were Hannah Liggett (a minister and temperance advocate), Zeno Hoag (a minister), and middle child Joseph Lindley Hoag. Joseph Hoag was the son of Elijah and Phoebe Hoag. He was born in

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. He married Huldah Case, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth Case, in Dutchess County in 1782.Supplement ... to the Journal of the Friends Historical Society
Volume 14, The Society, 1917 pages 72-75 According to a biographical description accompanying

's collection of papers related to Hoag, he opposed

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and

Joseph John Gurney Joseph John Gurney (2 August 1788 – 4 January 1847) was a banker in Norwich, England and a member of the Gurney family of that city. He became an evangelical minister of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), whose views and actions led, ...

. Joseph and Huldah Hoag are buried at the Friends Cemetery near the meeting house in Monkton Boro, Vermont.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoag, Joseph 1762 births 1846 deaths Quaker ministers