letter either, and ordered her whipped. Afterwards, she was again abandoned in the woods, but she made her way back to England. Hooton was undeterred by the persecutions she suffered. In 1664, she was imprisoned in Lincoln for five months for disturbing a congregation. Final journey Hooton embarked on her final voyage in 1670, joining George Fox on a trip to the West Indies and the American continent. The purpose of the trip was to encourage Friends in the New World. A week after arriving in Jamaica in 1672, Hooton died peacefully of natural causes. George Fox wrote about her death, "... Elizabeth Hooton, a woman of great age, who had travelled much in Truth's service, and suffered much for it, departed this life. She was well the day before she died, and departed in peace, like a lamb, bearing testimony to Truth at her departure." Hooton is memorialized in a panel of the Quaker Tapestry (panel B2), along with Mary Fisher, as an example of the Publishers of Truth, who were the earliest proponents of Quakerism. References Further reading Calkins, Susanna. "Colonial Whips, Royal Writs and the Quaker Challenge: Elizabeth Hooton's Voyages through New England in the Seventeenth Century". Journeys, vol. 5, no. 2. . Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women : Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England Manners, Emily. Elizabeth Hooton, First Quaker Woman Preacher. (London: Headley Brothers, 1914). Trevett, Christine. Women and Quakerism in the 17th Century. York, England: Ebor Press, 1991. External links Article at Christian History Institute Sermon on the Testimony of Christian Women Account of Hooton’s Death in George Fox’s Journal Article from Quaker Women Website George Fox’s Summary of Hooton’s Life in Quaker Faith and Practice of the Britain Yearly Meeting English Quakers Converts to Quakerism 1672 deaths 17th-century Quakers Year of birth uncertain 1600 births English Baptists Quaker ministers Place of birth unknown Prisoners and detainees of England and Wales Former Baptists