Some account of the forepart of the life of Elizabeth Ashbridge : of Chester County in the province of Pennsylvania who died in Truth's service at the house of Robert Lecky at Killnock in the County Carlow, Ireland, 16, 5th month, 1775 [i.e. 1755], [17--?].

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Ashbridge, Elizabeth, 1713-1755. Some account of the forepart of the life of Elizabeth Ashbridge : of Chester County in the province of Pennsylvania who died in Truth's service at the house of Robert Lecky at Killnock in the County Carlow, Ireland, 16, 5th month, 1775 [i.e. 1755], [17--?].

Some account of the forepart of the life of Elizabeth Ashbridge : of Chester County in the province of Pennsylvania who died in Truth's service at the house of Robert Lecky at Killnock in the County Carlow, Ireland, 16, 5th month, 1775 [i.e. 1755], [17--?].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16636703

Contains the memoirs of Elizabeth Ashbridge from the days of her youth in Ireland to her life as an indentured servant and Quaker in the United States. The story begins with her arrival in New York in 1732 and includes her servitude in Pennsylvania, her marriage to a school master, their lives in Rhode Island, and her return to Pennsylvania to visit Quaker relations. She remarried in 1746 following the death of her abusive husband and returned to Ireland in 1753. She died there in 1755. Her autobiography was first published in Philadelphia in 1807.

1 v. (60 p.) ; 27 cm.

Millersville University Library, McNairy Library