I, Elizabeth Phoebe Betsy Ross Griscom was born on January 1, 1752 in Philadelphia, when I was three years old we moved into a large home on 4th and Arch streets. My parents are Samuel and Rebecca Griscom, my dad is a successful carpenter. I was the eighth child out of my 17 brothers and sisters. As I grew older people known me as a seamstress, but I was actually a trained upholsterer. After I finished school, I was a student to a well-known and gifted upholsterer. Over the years, I learned how to make and fix curtains, rugs, umbrellas, bedcovers, and other tasks that involved sewing. Still under John Webster I fell in love with John Ross who was also a fellow student to John Webster. John R. was an Anglican and the son of the Assistant Rector of Christ Church. Since my family were Quakers, they did not …show more content…
On June 15, 1777, I remarried to Joseph Ashburn who was a mariner and was frequently at sea, leaving me, a new mother, at home. During 1780, the British captured the ship Joseph was on and the crew was charged with treason and taken to prison in Plymouth, England. While he was imprisoned not only that he was gone but I suffered the loss of my first daughter, Zilla, at nine months and our second daughter Eliza was born. Joseph never heard of Zilla’s death and did not get the chance to see our new daughter, because he had died of an unidentified illness the British released the American prisoners in 1782. On May 8, 1783, I remarried to an old friend John Claypoole. By the next year, I returned to my Quakers roots where we joined the Society of Free Quakers. In 1793, I discovered a great loss, my parents and sister have died within days between each other from yellow fever, which left me to look after my niece. In 1812, John’s young, widowed daughter moved into our home and brought her five children with the sixth one on its way, which meant a full house of kids to care of for me and
Mary Eugenia Surratt, née Jenkins, was born to Samuel Isaac Jenkins and his wife near Waterloo, Maryland. After her father died when she was young, her mother and older siblings kept the family and the farm together. After attending a Catholic girls’ school for a few years, she met and married John Surratt at age fifteen. They had three children: Isaac, John, and Anna. After a fire at their first farm, John Surratt Sr. began jumping from occupation to occupation. Surratt worked briefly in Virginia as a railroad contractor before he was able to purchase land in Maryland and eventually establish a store and tavern that became known as Surrattsville. However, the family’s fina...
Betsy Ross did not have an extremely interesting childhood. She was born Elizabeth Griscom on January 1, 1752, to a Quaker couple. Her father's name was Samuel Griscom, who worked as a carpenter. The Quakers were "members of the religious society of friends." (Comptons 1). She lived in Philadelphia, and attended a Friends School while growing up (Walters 335).
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a unique and vital character in American history. She played an imperative role in the equality and advancement of not just African-American women, but women in general. Although she was born a free women in Maryland she had an unparalleled knack for describing and capturing the evils and horrors of slavery. She wrote a plethora of novels, short stories and poems. In her early years she taught in both Ohio and Pennsylvania, after leaving teaching she left teaching to lecture for the Maine Anti-slavery society along with other anti-slavery organizations. She also worked to help fugitive slaves escape to Canada through the Underground Railroad. Frances E. W. Harper was an impeccable writer and human being, she made unmatched contributions to history through her works as an equal rights activist and beautifully captures the identity of
In all of American history, there are many men who stand out and emphasize the history ofour country. This man, John Hancock, is one of those extraordinary men that stand out.John’s life began on January 16, 1736 in Braintree, Massachuchetts.John was the middle child of three. He was the son of (Rev.) John Hancock, born on June 1, 1702 in Lexington, Massachuchetts and son of Mary Hawke, born on October 13, 1711 in Hingham, Massachuchetts. Mary was once married before she married John Hancock Sr. Her previous marriage ended in her former husband’s death.(Rev.) John Hancock was well-liked by his parish, was paid well, and was provided a very comfortable home. In return of their generosity, he was a "faithful shepard." He kept an attentive watch over the morals and religious well-being of all members of the parish.
While attending the Quaker boarding school she met James Mott, her future husband. The couple married in 1811 and moved to Philadelphia. Soon after they had six children. Five of which grew into adulthood. In 1817, Lucretia’s youngest son passed away at the age of three of disease. A couple of years before her son’s death, a family tragedy happened in 1815 when Lucretia’s father died, leaving her mom in debt and the whole family in financial hardship. While in financial need, James Mott found a job in his Uncle Scott’s cotton mill, sold plows and afterwards became a bank clerk. His boycott of slave products lead him to selling mainly wool, rather than cotton because he too believed that ...
Kelley, Mary. Introduction. The Power of Her Sympathy. By Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1993.
Margaretta Large Fitler came from one of the richest families in the nation, attaining their eight million inheritance from rope-making. It was a “blue-nosed society that advised a girl to get her name in the papers only four times: when you are born, when you make your debut, when you are married, and when you die” (N. pag.). Even when Happy was taken in as blissful and was never seen without a smile on her face there always seemed to be an unspoken sadness that weighted her quiet disposition heavily. Perhaps this came from her mother and father separating when she was only ten, or it could be because her mother being the extremely self-centered woman that she ha...
Caroline was born into a wealthy family in Massachusetts, the daughter of a psychoanalyst and his self-contained painter-wife. She reflects in her memoir that being in her friends’ houses during her school years, she noted that her family was different from the others: they never hug each other,
The prisoner described the truth of jails as he is experiencing them now, while the original Quaker intentions had something much different in mind. The Quakers, who were led under William Penn, were the first group to set up an institutionalized system in the United States that dealt with punishment. Since the original plans were developed for the prison system, the goal and intentions have been reformed time and time again. Although jails are supposed to be a place of rehabilitation, the reality is that they are actually a hotbed for spurring criminals more violent then when they were first admitted.
Rappaport, Doreen. American Women, Their Lives in Their Words: Thomas Y. Crowell, New York 1990
More than thirteen hundred Quakers were released from prison. William’s “holy experiment” achieved much of what he dreamed and more (Figley 40). Immigrants with different religious beliefs- from all parts of Europe- found a welcoming home in Pennsylvania.
On March 5, 1770, five colonists lost their lives in what American history would deem their fight for liberty; however, several British soldiers were placed on trial for murder when they were only fighting for their lives against an anger mob. John Adams, who would become our second president, defended these soldiers in an attempted to prove their innocents. The trial was held on American soil and the outcome did not fare well for the British soldiers. Adams was able to keep them from receiving the death penalty, however both soldiers were “branded” for life as murders. Boston was a cauldro...
Inside of the Quaker group are legends of the originators who fashioned the way to what Friends speak to today. John Woolman, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Benjamin Lay, and George Fox were all surely understood and cutting edge masterminds of their time, yet when burrowing more profound, one can locate the unsung saints who have likewise helped endless lives in inconceivable ways. Anthony Benezet was one of these men; a significantly sympathetic Quaker who had thoughts regarding correspondence that would in the long run change the world. Benezet worked not just to consolidate Quakerism inside of his ordinary life, however into others' too. He was a researcher, an instructor, and a donor. Be that as it may, he was known most for his assistance in the Abolition development. He neglected the social standard with his peace developments, and scrutinized the human homicide and common devastation that subjection involved; a thought that was unchallenged amongst a huge number of favored Europeans and Colonists. Anthony Benezet was a principle originator of Quakerism, as well as a man whose convictions, even today are
Loyalist scholarship within Bailyn’s sphere focused primarily on Loyalist ideological cohesion—or lack thereof—in the colonies, their disruption of the Patriot narrative, as well as the exploits of Loyalists after their departure from the American colonies. Maya Jasanoff’s Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World chronicles the exodus of Loyalists to Canada, the Caribbean, India, and other parts of the British Empire. Mary Beth Norton’s The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789 discusses the short-lived optimism of American Loyalists exiled to England as they realize the stark differences between English and American societies and come to miss the American land from which they came, and in which many of them were born and raised. The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson takes a look at the political maneuvering of Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson, as well as the challenges he faced during his time in
Elizabeth F. Loftus was born Elizabeth Fishman on October 16th, 1944. She grew up in Bel Air, California with her parents Sidney and Rebecca Fishman, and had a high interest in fictionalized crime books (Zagorski, 2005). When Elizabeth was 14, her mother Rebecca drowned in a swimming pool. To cope with her loss, she kept a diary that contained her thoughts. Interesting enough, she would write her thoughts onto a separate piece of paper that she would attach in her diary, and remove it if her future boyfriend was to ask to read her diary (Loftus, 2017). In 1962, Elizabeth started her undergraduate studies at the University of California in Los Angeles as a major in mathematics (Born, 1997). During her undergrad year, she took an