"Anna's lessons were given by the best scholars and die-hard Patriots, such as "Master Holbrook." Earle notes in her introduction to the diary that Anna was taught by Samuel Holbrook, who was "one of the 'Sons of Liberty' who dined at the Liberty Tree Tavern in Dorchester, Massachusetts on August 14, 1769; and he was a member of Captain John Haskin's company in 1773… and a member of the Old South Church."
Anna, who once sported the latest London fashions, shed her Loyalist attire and joined the women warriors of the "Patriotic sewing circles." All the rage became spinning and weaving cloth to make homegrown dress attire – boycotting all things British."
— "The Kinsfolk of Anna Green Winslow Taught Her How to Spin Liberty!", by Melissa Berry
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Anna Green Winslow (November 29, 1759 – July 19, 1780), was an American letter writer. A member of the prominent Winslow family of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, she wrote a series of letters to her mother between 1771 and 1773 that portray the daily life of the gentry in Boston at the first stirrings of the American Revolution. She made copies of the letters into an eight-by-six-and-a-half-inch book (20 cm × 17 cm) in order to improve her penmanship, making the accounts a sort of diary as well. This diary, edited by 19th-century American historian and author Alice Morse Earle, was published in 1894 under the title Diary of Anna Green Winslow, A Boston School Girl of 1771, and has never gone out of print. It provides a rare window into the life of an affluent teenage girl in colonial Boston.
Anna was born in 1759 in Nova Scotia, where her father, Army officer Joshua Winslow, had moved to serve as commissary-general of the British forces there.[1] In 1764, he was named a judge in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in Nova Scotia.[2] He also represented Cumberland County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1770 to 1772. Her mother, born Anna Green, was the daughter of a wealthy merchant and Joshua Winslow's cousin.[2][7] They married 10 months before Anna's birth.
On the Winslow side, Anna's great-great-great grandfather was John Winslow, the older brother of Pilgrim Edward Winslow, who arrived on the Mayflower, as did Anna's great-great-great grandmother, Mary Chilton. On the Green side, Anna was a direct descendant of another Puritan, Percival Green, who arrived with his wife at Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1635.
Anna died on July 19, 1780, probably of consumption, in Hingham, Massachusetts. In 1783, Mrs. Winslow rejoined her husband in Quebec
Anna, who once sported the latest London fashions, shed her Loyalist attire and joined the women warriors of the "Patriotic sewing circles." All the rage became spinning and weaving cloth to make homegrown dress attire – boycotting all things British."
— "The Kinsfolk of Anna Green Winslow Taught Her How to Spin Liberty!", by Melissa Berry
blog.genealogybank.com/the-kinsfolk-of-anna-green-winslow-taught-her-how-to-spin-liberty.html/amp
Wikipedia
Anna Green Winslow (November 29, 1759 – July 19, 1780), was an American letter writer. A member of the prominent Winslow family of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, she wrote a series of letters to her mother between 1771 and 1773 that portray the daily life of the gentry in Boston at the first stirrings of the American Revolution. She made copies of the letters into an eight-by-six-and-a-half-inch book (20 cm × 17 cm) in order to improve her penmanship, making the accounts a sort of diary as well. This diary, edited by 19th-century American historian and author Alice Morse Earle, was published in 1894 under the title Diary of Anna Green Winslow, A Boston School Girl of 1771, and has never gone out of print. It provides a rare window into the life of an affluent teenage girl in colonial Boston.
Anna was born in 1759 in Nova Scotia, where her father, Army officer Joshua Winslow, had moved to serve as commissary-general of the British forces there.[1] In 1764, he was named a judge in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in Nova Scotia.[2] He also represented Cumberland County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1770 to 1772. Her mother, born Anna Green, was the daughter of a wealthy merchant and Joshua Winslow's cousin.[2][7] They married 10 months before Anna's birth.
On the Winslow side, Anna's great-great-great grandfather was John Winslow, the older brother of Pilgrim Edward Winslow, who arrived on the Mayflower, as did Anna's great-great-great grandmother, Mary Chilton. On the Green side, Anna was a direct descendant of another Puritan, Percival Green, who arrived with his wife at Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1635.
Anna died on July 19, 1780, probably of consumption, in Hingham, Massachusetts. In 1783, Mrs. Winslow rejoined her husband in Quebec
"Anna's lessons were given by the best scholars and die-hard Patriots, such as "Master Holbrook." Earle notes in her introduction to the diary that Anna was taught by Samuel Holbrook, who was "one of the 'Sons of Liberty' who dined at the Liberty Tree Tavern in Dorchester, Massachusetts on August 14, 1769; and he was a member of Captain John Haskin's company in 1773… and a member of the Old South Church."
Anna, who once sported the latest London fashions, shed her Loyalist attire and joined the women warriors of the "Patriotic sewing circles." All the rage became spinning and weaving cloth to make homegrown dress attire – boycotting all things British."
— "The Kinsfolk of Anna Green Winslow Taught Her How to Spin Liberty!", by Melissa Berry
blog.genealogybank.com/the-kinsfolk-of-anna-green-winslow-taught-her-how-to-spin-liberty.html/amp
Wikipedia
Anna Green Winslow (November 29, 1759 – July 19, 1780), was an American letter writer. A member of the prominent Winslow family of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, she wrote a series of letters to her mother between 1771 and 1773 that portray the daily life of the gentry in Boston at the first stirrings of the American Revolution. She made copies of the letters into an eight-by-six-and-a-half-inch book (20 cm × 17 cm) in order to improve her penmanship, making the accounts a sort of diary as well. This diary, edited by 19th-century American historian and author Alice Morse Earle, was published in 1894 under the title Diary of Anna Green Winslow, A Boston School Girl of 1771, and has never gone out of print. It provides a rare window into the life of an affluent teenage girl in colonial Boston.
Anna was born in 1759 in Nova Scotia, where her father, Army officer Joshua Winslow, had moved to serve as commissary-general of the British forces there.[1] In 1764, he was named a judge in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in Nova Scotia.[2] He also represented Cumberland County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1770 to 1772. Her mother, born Anna Green, was the daughter of a wealthy merchant and Joshua Winslow's cousin.[2][7] They married 10 months before Anna's birth.
On the Winslow side, Anna's great-great-great grandfather was John Winslow, the older brother of Pilgrim Edward Winslow, who arrived on the Mayflower, as did Anna's great-great-great grandmother, Mary Chilton. On the Green side, Anna was a direct descendant of another Puritan, Percival Green, who arrived with his wife at Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1635.
Anna died on July 19, 1780, probably of consumption, in Hingham, Massachusetts. In 1783, Mrs. Winslow rejoined her husband in Quebec
Anna, who once sported the latest London fashions, shed her Loyalist attire and joined the women warriors of the "Patriotic sewing circles." All the rage became spinning and weaving cloth to make homegrown dress attire – boycotting all things British."
— "The Kinsfolk of Anna Green Winslow Taught Her How to Spin Liberty!", by Melissa Berry
blog.genealogybank.com/the-kinsfolk-of-anna-green-winslow-taught-her-how-to-spin-liberty.html/amp
Wikipedia
Anna Green Winslow (November 29, 1759 – July 19, 1780), was an American letter writer. A member of the prominent Winslow family of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, she wrote a series of letters to her mother between 1771 and 1773 that portray the daily life of the gentry in Boston at the first stirrings of the American Revolution. She made copies of the letters into an eight-by-six-and-a-half-inch book (20 cm × 17 cm) in order to improve her penmanship, making the accounts a sort of diary as well. This diary, edited by 19th-century American historian and author Alice Morse Earle, was published in 1894 under the title Diary of Anna Green Winslow, A Boston School Girl of 1771, and has never gone out of print. It provides a rare window into the life of an affluent teenage girl in colonial Boston.
Anna was born in 1759 in Nova Scotia, where her father, Army officer Joshua Winslow, had moved to serve as commissary-general of the British forces there.[1] In 1764, he was named a judge in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in Nova Scotia.[2] He also represented Cumberland County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1770 to 1772. Her mother, born Anna Green, was the daughter of a wealthy merchant and Joshua Winslow's cousin.[2][7] They married 10 months before Anna's birth.
On the Winslow side, Anna's great-great-great grandfather was John Winslow, the older brother of Pilgrim Edward Winslow, who arrived on the Mayflower, as did Anna's great-great-great grandmother, Mary Chilton. On the Green side, Anna was a direct descendant of another Puritan, Percival Green, who arrived with his wife at Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1635.
Anna died on July 19, 1780, probably of consumption, in Hingham, Massachusetts. In 1783, Mrs. Winslow rejoined her husband in Quebec
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