1792 Bond Warrant For 1450 Pounds To Sally Wistar Of Philadelphia Pennsylvania

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1792 Bond Warrant For 1450 Pounds To Sally Wistar Of Philadelphia Pennsylvania:
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1792 Bond Warrant For 1450 Pounds To Sally Wistar Of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Jonathan Meredith of the City of Philadelphia, Tanner was bound to Sarah Wistar. Document is on laid paper and is watermarked JC & Co BRANDYWINE. Folded. Full sheet measures 16\" x 13\". Scarce bond issued to a woman. Her biography is as follows: <P>Sarah (\"Sally\") Wister (July20, 1761 – April 21, 1804) was a girl living in Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.She is principally known as the author of Sally Wister\'sJournal, written when she was sixteen; it is a first-hand account of life inthe nearby countryside during the British occupation of Philadelphia in 1777–78. Sarah (Sally)Wister was born July 20, 1761, in the house of herpaternal grandfather in Philadelphia.She was the first child of Daniel Wister and Lowery Jones (d. 1804)of Philadelphia.Her grandfather was John Wister, son of Hans Caspar Wüster (1671–1726) andyounger brother of Caspar Wistar the elder, who had emigrated from Baden tojoin his brother in Philadelphia in 1727. John Wisteradopted the Quaker faith and became a successful wine merchant and landowner;he built the house now known as Grumblethorpe in Germantown as a summer home in 1744. Hissecond wife was Anna Catherine Rubenkam,of Wanfried, Germany. Their one son was Daniel (1738/9–1805). Sally\'smother, Lowery Jones, was the daughter of SusannaEvans and Owen Jones(Sr.), of Wynnewood, Lower Merion. Jones was the granddaughter of Gainor Owen and Jonathan Jones and thegreat-granddaughter of Mary Wynne (daughter of Dr. Thomas Wynne) and Dr. Edward Jones. Sallywas their first child. Not much is known of Sally Wister’searly life. She attended a girls’ school run by the Quaker philanthropist Anthony Benezet.Her writings show some knowledge of French and Latin, and she was clearlyfamiliar with the literature of her time, particularly poetry, and especially Alexander Pope.It was at the Benezet school that young Sallymet the future historian and memoirist Deborah Norris,whom she called Debby. She was alsofriends with Polly Fishbourne, Sally Jones, Anna Rawle, Peggy Rawle, and SallyBurge. The girls formed a “social circle” and exchanged numerous letters duringthe summers. Two weeks after the Battle of Brandywine, on September 25, 1777, when thefall of Philadelphia (and disruption of mail) was imminent, Sally Wister, thenaged sixteen, began keeping “a sort of journal of the time that may expire”,which took the form of letters to Debby Norris, as letters would no longerreach her. She hoped that the letters would give her friend “pleasure” “sometime hence” [15] (As it turned out, Norris did not see the letters written toher for many years, after Sally Wister had died. The Wisterfamily returned home to Philadelphiain July 1778. Upon the death of her grandfather John Wister in 1789, her fathertook up residence in the family summer house in Germantown. Sally Wisterlived there the rest of her life, dying April 21, 1804. She was more withdrawnin later life and “much occupied with religious matters”. Benjamin Rushnoted her death in the Philadelphia Gazette, lauding her “prudence, virtue,piety, and eminent acquirements”.