| Title: |
Diary of Sally Wister, December, 1777
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| Document type: |
Diary
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| Accessibility: |
Paid Only
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| Repository: |
Alexander Street Press
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| Collection: |
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Subscription only)
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| URL: |
http://www.alexanderstreet4.com/cgi-bin/asp/nawld/documentidx.pl?aspdocid=S45-D005
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
1777
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| Speaker: |
Wister, Sarah, 1761-1804
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
20-Jul-1761
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Philadelphia, PA; Pennsylvania; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Writer
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| Age at speaking: |
16
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| Document location: |
North Wales, PA
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| Document date: |
05-Dec-1777
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| People discussed: |
Alexander Seaton; Deborah Norris Logan; Fishbourne, Mary; Fishbourne, Polly; Foulke, Hannah; Foulke, Mrs. William; Griffitts, Mary Fishbourne, 1760-1842; Griffitts, Mrs. Samuel Powell; Hannah Foulke; Hannah Miles McKean; Heabard Smallwood; Lipscomb, Reuben; Logan, Deborah Norris, 1761-1839; Logan, Mrs. George; Lydia Wister; Mary Fishbourne Griffitts; McKean, Hannah Miles; McKean, Mrs. Thomas; Miles, Hannah; Norris, Deborah; Reuben Lipscomb; Robert Tilly; Seaton, Alexander; Smallwood, Heabard; Tilly, Robert; Wister, Lydia, fl. 1777
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| Organizations discussed: |
Great Britain. Army; U.S. Colonial Army
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| Historical events discussed: |
American Revolution, 1775-1783; Battle of Germantown, PA, October 4, 1777
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| Locations discussed: |
Chestnut Hill, PA; North America; Pennsylvania; United States; Valley Forge, PA
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Alexander Seaton; American Revolution, 1775-1783; Battle of Germantown, PA, October 4, 1777; Chestnut Hill, PA; Deborah Norris Logan; Fishbourne, Mary; Fishbourne, Polly; Foulke, Hannah; Foulke, Mrs. William; Great Britain. Army; Griffitts, Mary Fishbourne, 1760-1842; Griffitts, Mrs. Samuel Powell; Hannah Foulke; Hannah Miles McKean; Heabard Smallwood; Lipscomb, Reuben; Logan, Deborah Norris, 1761-1839; Logan, Mrs. George; Lydia Wister; Mary Fishbourne Griffitts; McKean, Hannah Miles; McKean, Mrs. Thomas; Miles, Hannah; Norris, Deborah; North America; Pennsylvania; Reuben Lipscomb; Robert Tilly; Seaton, Alexander; Smallwood, Heabard; Tilly, Robert; U.S. Colonial Army; United States; Valley Forge, PA; Wister, Lydia, fl. 1777
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Awkwardness; Conversationalists; Courtship customs; Deaths from war; Entertaining; Entertainment and recreation; Fatigue; Fear; Health; Humor; Intellectual life; Majors; Medications; Military; Military officers; Military units; Physical illnesses; Politics; Quartering of troops; Shyness; Sociology; Storytelling; Upper-class; War
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| ASP release: |
2006-01
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| Document code: |
S45-D005-158
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