Susanna Freeborn

Susanna Freeborn
Personal details
Born 1674
Portsmouth, Rhode Island, United States
Died 1723
Denomination Society of Friends
Parents Gideon Freeborn
Sarah Brownell Freeborn

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]

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. Friends’ House Library, 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

  1. 1 2 "Susanna Freeborn". Retrieved 2016-09-19.
  2. ↑ Margaret Hope Bacon (1986). Mothers of Feminism. Harper&Row. p. 48. ISBN 0-06-250043-0.
  3. 1 2 Rebecca Larson (1999). Daughters of Light. Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 3–4. ISBN 0-679-43762-2.
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