Daughter of William & Sarah Sandwith. Born 12 mon/Feb 16/1734.
Wife of Henry Drinker. They married Jan 13, 1761.
" Elizabeth Drinker kept a diary for nearly 50 years which still exists today (at Historical Society of Pennsylvania). Elaine Forman Crane, Ph.D. edited Elizabeth's monumental diary, contextualizing it for readers, over a 10-year period of painstaking work, and published it in 3 volumes (over 2200 pages) in 1991. Crane said of it "it is the most important document reflective of eighteenth-century life from a female perspective." What Crane called the "extraordinary span of the diary (1758-1807), as well as its sustained quality" mean that it has rapidly become a valuable source document for scores of historians, especially because of the time period it covers, including particularly the months that the British Army occupied revolutionary Philadelphia (September 26, 1777-June 18, 1778) and the years that the yellow fever epidemic devastated the population in the 1790s. Beside the diary, she wrote dozens of letters (now held in the Quaker Collection, Haverford College) to her husband in Winchester, Virginia, when he was, with sixteen other Quakers, arrested and exiled by the Continental Congress and Pennsylvania authorities to the frontier under suspicion of Loyalist treachery (never charged, never proved, though widely speculated about among contemporaries). Elizabeth also participated in one of the first times in Pennsylvania state history, if not also in the history of the new republic, that a group of only women protested in writing in order to set right a public wrong-- in this instance, taking their petition (signed only by 18 women) directly to General George Washington and Martha Washington and to the governor of Pennsylvania, pleading for the release of the Quaker men confined at Winchester.
She and Henry had nine children of which 5 reached adulthood. The quality of her efforts as a mother cannot be overstated and she has written much that reflects on that subject.
Much much more has already been written about Elizabeth and will continue to be written about her in the years to come. And even more history will be written and illuminated because of what can be found in her diary.
There is an historical marker recently placed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission on 2nd Street in Philadelphia near the location of Drinker's former home.
(Sources: Elaine Forman Crane, ed., "The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker" (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991); Richard Godbeer, "World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family's Journey through the American Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), and many more articles and books)".
Wife of Henry Drinker. They married Jan 13, 1761.
" Elizabeth Drinker kept a diary for nearly 50 years which still exists today (at Historical Society of Pennsylvania). Elaine Forman Crane, Ph.D. edited Elizabeth's monumental diary, contextualizing it for readers, over a 10-year period of painstaking work, and published it in 3 volumes (over 2200 pages) in 1991. Crane said of it "it is the most important document reflective of eighteenth-century life from a female perspective." What Crane called the "extraordinary span of the diary (1758-1807), as well as its sustained quality" mean that it has rapidly become a valuable source document for scores of historians, especially because of the time period it covers, including particularly the months that the British Army occupied revolutionary Philadelphia (September 26, 1777-June 18, 1778) and the years that the yellow fever epidemic devastated the population in the 1790s. Beside the diary, she wrote dozens of letters (now held in the Quaker Collection, Haverford College) to her husband in Winchester, Virginia, when he was, with sixteen other Quakers, arrested and exiled by the Continental Congress and Pennsylvania authorities to the frontier under suspicion of Loyalist treachery (never charged, never proved, though widely speculated about among contemporaries). Elizabeth also participated in one of the first times in Pennsylvania state history, if not also in the history of the new republic, that a group of only women protested in writing in order to set right a public wrong-- in this instance, taking their petition (signed only by 18 women) directly to General George Washington and Martha Washington and to the governor of Pennsylvania, pleading for the release of the Quaker men confined at Winchester.
She and Henry had nine children of which 5 reached adulthood. The quality of her efforts as a mother cannot be overstated and she has written much that reflects on that subject.
Much much more has already been written about Elizabeth and will continue to be written about her in the years to come. And even more history will be written and illuminated because of what can be found in her diary.
There is an historical marker recently placed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission on 2nd Street in Philadelphia near the location of Drinker's former home.
(Sources: Elaine Forman Crane, ed., "The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker" (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991); Richard Godbeer, "World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family's Journey through the American Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), and many more articles and books)".
Daughter of William & Sarah Sandwith. Born 12 mon/Feb 16/1734.
Wife of Henry Drinker. They married Jan 13, 1761.
" Elizabeth Drinker kept a diary for nearly 50 years which still exists today (at Historical Society of Pennsylvania). Elaine Forman Crane, Ph.D. edited Elizabeth's monumental diary, contextualizing it for readers, over a 10-year period of painstaking work, and published it in 3 volumes (over 2200 pages) in 1991. Crane said of it "it is the most important document reflective of eighteenth-century life from a female perspective." What Crane called the "extraordinary span of the diary (1758-1807), as well as its sustained quality" mean that it has rapidly become a valuable source document for scores of historians, especially because of the time period it covers, including particularly the months that the British Army occupied revolutionary Philadelphia (September 26, 1777-June 18, 1778) and the years that the yellow fever epidemic devastated the population in the 1790s. Beside the diary, she wrote dozens of letters (now held in the Quaker Collection, Haverford College) to her husband in Winchester, Virginia, when he was, with sixteen other Quakers, arrested and exiled by the Continental Congress and Pennsylvania authorities to the frontier under suspicion of Loyalist treachery (never charged, never proved, though widely speculated about among contemporaries). Elizabeth also participated in one of the first times in Pennsylvania state history, if not also in the history of the new republic, that a group of only women protested in writing in order to set right a public wrong-- in this instance, taking their petition (signed only by 18 women) directly to General George Washington and Martha Washington and to the governor of Pennsylvania, pleading for the release of the Quaker men confined at Winchester.
She and Henry had nine children of which 5 reached adulthood. The quality of her efforts as a mother cannot be overstated and she has written much that reflects on that subject.
Much much more has already been written about Elizabeth and will continue to be written about her in the years to come. And even more history will be written and illuminated because of what can be found in her diary.
There is an historical marker recently placed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission on 2nd Street in Philadelphia near the location of Drinker's former home.
(Sources: Elaine Forman Crane, ed., "The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker" (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991); Richard Godbeer, "World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family's Journey through the American Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), and many more articles and books)".
Wife of Henry Drinker. They married Jan 13, 1761.
" Elizabeth Drinker kept a diary for nearly 50 years which still exists today (at Historical Society of Pennsylvania). Elaine Forman Crane, Ph.D. edited Elizabeth's monumental diary, contextualizing it for readers, over a 10-year period of painstaking work, and published it in 3 volumes (over 2200 pages) in 1991. Crane said of it "it is the most important document reflective of eighteenth-century life from a female perspective." What Crane called the "extraordinary span of the diary (1758-1807), as well as its sustained quality" mean that it has rapidly become a valuable source document for scores of historians, especially because of the time period it covers, including particularly the months that the British Army occupied revolutionary Philadelphia (September 26, 1777-June 18, 1778) and the years that the yellow fever epidemic devastated the population in the 1790s. Beside the diary, she wrote dozens of letters (now held in the Quaker Collection, Haverford College) to her husband in Winchester, Virginia, when he was, with sixteen other Quakers, arrested and exiled by the Continental Congress and Pennsylvania authorities to the frontier under suspicion of Loyalist treachery (never charged, never proved, though widely speculated about among contemporaries). Elizabeth also participated in one of the first times in Pennsylvania state history, if not also in the history of the new republic, that a group of only women protested in writing in order to set right a public wrong-- in this instance, taking their petition (signed only by 18 women) directly to General George Washington and Martha Washington and to the governor of Pennsylvania, pleading for the release of the Quaker men confined at Winchester.
She and Henry had nine children of which 5 reached adulthood. The quality of her efforts as a mother cannot be overstated and she has written much that reflects on that subject.
Much much more has already been written about Elizabeth and will continue to be written about her in the years to come. And even more history will be written and illuminated because of what can be found in her diary.
There is an historical marker recently placed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission on 2nd Street in Philadelphia near the location of Drinker's former home.
(Sources: Elaine Forman Crane, ed., "The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker" (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991); Richard Godbeer, "World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family's Journey through the American Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), and many more articles and books)".
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Mulberry & 4th Streets ... 73 yrs ... wife of Henry...Thank you to Lee Ashmore (#47026276) for sharing link to father and Norman Donoghue #48379527 for birth location and Bio in quotes.
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