Hannah Heaton
Born1721
Southampton, NY
Died1794[1]
NationalityAmerican
SpouseTheophilus Heaton Jr

Hannah Heaton is a New England woman known for chronicling in a diary[2] her experiences during the Great Awakening in the northern American royal colonies.[3][4]

Autobiography

It is unclear when Heaton began her diary/autobiography, as the first few dozen pages are undated. These undated pages include a visit to Connecticut where she experienced religious conversion.[5] The diary has entries over a period of 40 years, from the Great Awakening through to the American Revolution.[2][6] Her autobiography has been of interest to historians as it chronicles the life of a mother and farmer during the Great Awakening.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ "Heaton, Hannah Cook (1721–1794)". 2007-01-01. Archived from the original on 2018-11-14. ((cite journal)): Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ a b Heaton, Hannah; Lacey, Barbara E (2003). The world of Hannah Heaton: the diary of an eighteenth-century New England farm woman. DeKalb, Ill: Northern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0875803128. OCLC 834186704.
  3. ^ Yeager, Jonathan M. (2013-09-19). Early Evangelicalism: A Reader. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199916955.
  4. ^ Rhoden, Nancy L. (2016-10-01). "John Howard Smith.The First Great Awakening: Redefining Religion in British America, 1725–1775". The American Historical Review. 121 (4): 1267–1268. doi:10.1093/ahr/121.4.1267. ISSN 0002-8762.
  5. ^ Lacey, Barbara E. (1988). "The World of Hannah Heaton: The Autobiography of an Eighteenth-Century Connecticut Farm Woman". The William and Mary Quarterly. 45 (2): 280–304. doi:10.2307/1922328. JSTOR 1922328.
  6. ^ Heaton, Hannah (2003). The world of Hannah Heaton : the diary of an eighteenth-century New England farm woman in SearchWorks catalog. Northern Illinois University Press. ISBN 9780875803128. Retrieved 2018-01-23. ((cite book)): |website= ignored (help)
  7. ^ Brekus, Catherine A.; Gilpin, W. Clark (2011-12-01). American Christianities: A History of Dominance and Diversity. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807869147.
  8. ^ Fischer, Claude S. (2010-05-15). Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226251455.


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