Dicks, Zachariah, -approximately 1810
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Dicks, Zachariah, -approximately 1810
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Zachariah Dicks (sometimes also known as Zacharias) was a Quaker minister and abolitionist who spent much of his life in North Carolina. Dicks was born in southeastern Pennsylvania to Nathan and Deborah Dicks, likely in 1728. Dicks joined the Society of Friends in 1754 at Warrington Monthly Meeting in York County. The following year he moved to New Garden Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina, and 1756 he married Ruth Hiatt. The couple had eight children: Deborah, Martha, Nathan, Esther, Lydia, Peter, Ruth, and Mary. In 1775, Dicks and his family moved to Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Alamance County, and in 1793 they moved again, this time to Centre Monthly Meeting in Guilford County. In 1798 they returned to Alamance County, settling in Spring Monthly Meeting.
Dicks traveled widely in the ministry, traveling to meetings as far flung as Georgia and New Hampshire. Some of these travel he undertook in company with noted minister William Hunt. Dicks also made a religious visit tp the British Isles, which lasted from 1784 until 1787. Dicks was a well-known minister and outspoken abolitionist. He reportedly spent much of an 1803 tour of South Carolina and Georgia warning Quakers of the possibility of a slave revolution like that then ongoing in Haiti. Later accounts have ascribed to Dicks a prophetic power, saying that he predicted both Revolutionary War and the eventual Civil War. However, neither claim is well-substantiated by contemporaneous evidence.
In spring of 1808 the Dicks and his wife set out for Ohio, reaching West Branch Monthly Meeting in September 1809, where they settled on the Wabash River. Dicks reportedly died a few months later in 1810.
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Abolitionists
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Society of Friends
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Alamance County
NC, US
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Chester County
PA, US
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Guilford County
NC, US
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Miami County
OH, US
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York County
PA, US
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