suffered an incapacitating secondary stroke. He died some two weeks later on February 27, 1830, his dying concern being that no cotton blanket, a product of slavery, should cover him on his deathbed. Elias Hicks was interred in the Jericho Friends' Burial Ground as was earlier his wife, Jemima, who predeceased him on March 17, 1829. References Gross, David M. American Quaker War Tax Resistance (2008) pp. 208–210 External links Abbott, The Life and Religious Experience of T. Townsend, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Anecdotes about Elias Hicks (1888) by Walt Whitman Elias Hicks, A Doctrinal Epistle, 1824 Elias Hicks, "Let Love Be Without Dissimulation", a sermon Elias Hicks, "Observations on Slavery" Elias Hicks, "Peace, Be Still", a sermon, QH Press History of Jericho, NY, Best Schools website Larry Kuenning, "Quaker Theologies in the 19th Century Separations", December 1, 1989, submitted at Westminster Theological Seminary Observations on the Slavery of Africans and Their Descendants and on the Use of the Produce of Their Labor, by Elias Hicks – from the Antislavery Literature Project Pacific Yearly Meeting 2001 Faith and Practice Works by Elias Hicks at Project Gutenberg 1748 births 1830 deaths 18th-century Christian universalists 18th-century Quakers 19th-century Christian universalists 19th-century Quakers American abolitionists American Christian universalists American Quakers American tax resisters Christian universalist clergy Christian universalist theologians Converts to Quakerism People from Hempstead (town), New York People from Jericho, New York Quaker abolitionists Quaker ministers Quaker theologians Quaker universalists Quaker writers Underground Railroad in New York (state)