Christopher Atkinson (

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1652-5, dates of birth and death unknown) was an early

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and one of the Valiant Sixty. Already married, he caused a minor scandal among the Society by attempting to seduce another woman.H. Larry Ingle: ''First among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism'' (Oxford: OUP, 1996, p. 127

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