A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Fisher, (Mary)
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FISHER, MARY a Quaker of the last Century,
Who formed the project of visiting Constantinople, to convert the grand seignior. On her arrival at Smyrna, the English consul sent her to Venice. She then went all the way by land, and actually appeared before the sultan Mahomet IV. who heard her patiently, and, then supposing her to be mad, caused her to be sent back to her own country, where she married a preacher of the same sect. This couple afterwards went into Languedoc, to preach the tenets of quakerism among the protestants of that province.
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