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Ebenezer Sibly’s friendship with Quaker physician John Till Adams and his brother, William, seems to have been one of Ebenezer’s primary motivations for moving to Bristol in 1783 or 1784. Sibly left Bristol unexpectedly in 1787, after selling forged lottery tickets. He left with a third wife, the second apparently having died. William Till Adams introduced Sibly to masonic lodges in Bristol. Sibly entered high-degree freemasonry in Bristol and began his to collect masonic degrees and orders, forming a vital connection for many of his later partnerships and projects. Through John Till Adams, Sibly became acquainted with occult, spiritual, and medical experimentation. Sibly sold books and became involved in astrological medicine. He picked up many of the enthusiasms that informed his later career here: resuscitation of drowning victims, electrical medicine, Mesmerism, herbal and astrological medicine, and alchemy.
Title: A Bristol Bookseller
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Ebenezer Sibly’s friendship with Quaker physician John Till Adams and his brother, William, seems to have been one of Ebenezer’s primary motivations for moving to Bristol in 1783 or 1784.
Sibly left Bristol unexpectedly in 1787, after selling forged lottery tickets.
He left with a third wife, the second apparently having died.
William Till Adams introduced Sibly to masonic lodges in Bristol.
Sibly entered high-degree freemasonry in Bristol and began his to collect masonic degrees and orders, forming a vital connection for many of his later partnerships and projects.
Through John Till Adams, Sibly became acquainted with occult, spiritual, and medical experimentation.
Sibly sold books and became involved in astrological medicine.
He picked up many of the enthusiasms that informed his later career here: resuscitation of drowning victims, electrical medicine, Mesmerism, herbal and astrological medicine, and alchemy.
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