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Martha Laurens Ramsay (November 3, 1759 – June 10, 1811) was an American woman from Charleston, South Carolina. A daughter of Henry Laurens, she was married to Dr. David Ramsay.
5 de jun. de 2021 · Martha Laurens Ramsay (1759-1811), South Carolina gentry wife & mother & exemplar of dutiful womanhood, was born in Charleston. Her posthumous memoir, edited & expanded by her husband, was published in 1812, as a model for American women, especially mothers, in the 19C.
A biography of Martha Laurens Ramsay, the daughter of Henry Laurens, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and her husband David Ramsay, a historian and politician. The book includes extracts from her diary, letters, and other papers.
1 de dic. de 2002 · The daughter of the prominent Charleston merchant Henry Laurens, Martha was born into a life of social and financial privilege but personal deprivation, especially after her mother died.
Martha Laurens Ramsay, born in Charleston, South Carolina, on November 3, 1759, was the eighth of thirteen children of Eleanor Ball Laurens, the daughter of a planter, and Henry Laurens, who would accumulate a large fortune by 1762 through the rice and slave trades and use this money to buy plantations, at one time owning some 20,000 acres.
Laurens Ramsay mapped the boundaries of her religious cosmos, probably quite deliberately, on June 20, 1808, with the phrase "the many gracious providences I have experienced."·
Using Martha Laurens Ramsay's spiritual diary and correspondence and investigating contemporary sources, Joanna Bowen Gillespie has crafted a contextual biography that reconstructs with...
