Susanna Freeborn Explained

Susanna Freeborn
Religion:	Society of Friends
Birth Date:	1674
Birth Place:	Portsmouth, Rhode Island, United States
Death Date:	1723
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. 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Susanna Freeborn. 2016-09-19.
2. Book: Mothers of Feminism. Margaret Hope Bacon. Harper&Row. 1986. 0-06-250043-0. 48.
3. Book: Daughters of Light. Rebecca Larson. Alfred A. Knopf. 1999. 0-679-43762-2. 3–4. registration.