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The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Sarah Osborn (1714–1796)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe
Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe
Affiliation:
pastor of Church of the Apostles United Church of Christ, and adjunct professor of church history in Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Sarah Osborn does not appear in the definitive biographical dictionary, Notable American Women. She is not in the pages of Sydney Ahlstrom's A Religious History of the American People, nor of any more recent standard American religious history text. She failed to catch the attention of the editors and authors of the recent Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience or Dictionary of Christianity in America. The great New Divinity pastor-theologian Samuel Hopkins in some measure owed his career to Sarah Osborn, but studies of him mention her only in passing or not at all. Scholars have learned of her through the work of Mary Beth Norton and in the documentary history, Women and Religion in America, but the Sarah Osborn most often mentioned in connection with early New England is the one accused as a witch at Salem who died in Boston prison 10 May 1692.

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Research Article
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Church History , Volume 61 , Issue 4 , December 1992 , pp. 408 - 421
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1992

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