Born in New Jersey
Born in Burlington, New Jersey, into the well-established Quaker community of the Delaware Valley.
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1748–1814 · Burlington, New Jersey
Thomas Scattergood
Author of one of the most spiritually profound Quaker journals
Life & Ministry
Called to the Ministry
Became a recorded minister among Friends, entering into a life of extensive travel and spiritual labor that would define his career.
Journey to England and Ireland
Undertook a prolonged ministerial journey to England and Ireland, visiting meetings and laboring among Friends across the British Isles.
Death
Died in 1814. His journal was published posthumously and became one of the most treasured spiritual autobiographies in Quaker literature.
Connections & Relationships
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John Woolman
Spiritual PredecessorWoolman was the great exemplar of the previous generation of American Quaker ministers. Scattergood followed in the tradition of inward spiritual journaling that Woolman had perfected.
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Job Scott
Contemporary MinisterScott was a fellow American Quaker minister of the same generation whose journal shares the same deep inward character as Scattergood's.
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William Savery
Fellow American MinisterSavery was another prominent American Quaker minister who traveled to England in the same period. Both men represent the flowering of American Quaker ministry in the late eighteenth century.
Available Works
Journal of the Life and Religious Labours of Thomas Scattergood
ProposedPublished posthumously in Friends' Library Vol. VIII, this journal is among the most spiritually profound in all of Quaker literature — a record of deep inward exercises and faithful obedience to the leadings of the Spirit.
Letters of Thomas Scattergood
ProposedA collection of Scattergood's correspondence, also published in Friends' Library Vol. VIII, revealing the pastoral care and spiritual counsel he offered to Friends on both sides of the Atlantic.