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DESCRIPTION:In her new book\, One Colonial Woman's World: The Life and Wr
 itings of Mehetabel Chandler Coit\,  Michelle Marchetti Coughlin reconst
 ructs the life of Mehetabel Chandler  Coit (1673-1758)\, the author of w
 hat may be the earliest surviving  diary by an American woman. A native 
 of Roxbury\, Massachusetts\, who  later moved to Connecticut\, Mehetabel
  began her diary at the age of  fifteen and kept it intermittently until
  she was well into her  seventies. A previously overlooked resource\, th
 e diary contains entries  on a broad range of topics as well as poems\, 
 recipes\, folk and herbal  medical remedies\, religious meditations\, an
 d financial accounts. An  extensive collection of letters by Mehetabel a
 nd her female relatives  has also survived\, shedding further light on h
 er experiences.  Mehetabel's long life covered an eventful period in Ame
 rican history\,  and this book explores the numerous--and sometimes surp
 rising--ways in  which her personal history was linked to broader social
  and political  developments.\nThe lecture will be followed by a book si
 gning. Free and open to the public.
URL:http://backbay.patch.com/events/one-colonial-womans-world-the-life-an
 d-writings-of-mehetabel-chandler-coit
SUMMARY:One Colonial Woman’s World: The Life and Writings of Mehetabel 
 Chandler Coit
LOCATION:New England Historic Genealogic Society: 99-101 Newbury St\, Bos
 ton\, MA
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