Phelps, Elizabeth Porter (1747–1817)

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Phelps, Elizabeth Porter (1747–1817)

American diarist. Born 1747; lived in Hadley, MA; died 1817.

Recorded personal experiences during American Revolution; her diary was included in a collection of colonial writings, Under a Colonial Roof-Tree (1891).

See also Elizabeth Pendergast Carlisle, Earthbound and Heavenbent: Elizabeth Porter Phelps and Life at Forty Cares (1747–1817) (Scribner, 2004).

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