Susanna Freeborn
17th and 18th-century Quaker minister From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Susanna Freeborn (1674–1723)[1] was a minister in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Providence, Rhode Island.[2][3] She travelled with Esther Palmer on Palmer's epic journey of 3,230 miles through eight colonies.[3]
Susanna Freeborn | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 1674 Portsmouth, Rhode Island, United States |
| Died | 1723 |
| Denomination | Society of Friends |
| Parents | Gideon Freeborn Sarah Brownell Freeborn |
Life
Freeborn was born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1674 to Gideon Freeborn (1640-1720) and his wife Sarah (Brownell) Freeborn (1640-1676).[1]
See also
- Ordination of women
- Susanna Freeborn and Esther Palmer, Journall of Susanna Freeborn and Esther Palmer from Rhoad Island to and from Pennsylvania, 28/8M/1704. MS. Box X 1/10. Library of the Society of Friends, London.
- Quaker biographical sketches of ministers and elders, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1972.
- Meredith Baldwin Weddle, Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century, Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Alan Taylor, Writing Early American History, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
- H. M. Jenkins, Old Times in Nantucket, Friends Intelligencer, Society of Friends, volume 53, 1896, page 516.
- Christopher Coffin Hussey, Recollections of Nantucket — I, Friends' Intelligencer United with the Friends' Journal, vol 43, 1886.
References
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