Bathsheba Bowers

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BB , a colonial American Quaker , published just one of the many texts she says she wrote. This work, An Alarm Sounded, 1709, a spiritual autobiography in pamphlet form, is a narrative of inner conflict. It seems that the leaders of BB 's religious community did not encourage her idiosyncratic writing.

Milestones

Before June 1671
BB was born, probably at Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of a family of twelve. She was baptised in Cambridge on June 4th.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Potts, William John. “Bathsheba Bowers”. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Historical Society of Pensylvannia, pp. 110 -12.
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17 July 1709
BB signed her pamphlet An Alarm Sounded to prepare the Inhabitants of the World to meet the Lord in the way of his Judgements, which she published in New York (well away from her home town of Philadelphia).
Potts, William John. “Bathsheba Bowers”. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Historical Society of Pensylvannia, pp. 110 -12.
110
OCLC WorldCat.
American National Biography.
1718
BB died in South Carolina, where she had been based for about a dozen years.
Potts, William John. “Bathsheba Bowers”. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Historical Society of Pensylvannia, pp. 110 -12.
112

Biography

Birth and Family

Before June 1671
BB was born, probably at Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of a family of twelve. She was baptised in Cambridge on June 4th.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Potts, William John. “Bathsheba Bowers”. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Historical Society of Pensylvannia, pp. 110 -12.
111

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