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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.
Memoirs of the life of Martha Laurens Ramsay, who died in Charleston, S.C. on the 10th of June, 1811, in the 52d year of her age : with an appendix, containing extracts from her diary, letters, and other private papers ; and also from letters written to her, by her father, Henry Laurens, 1771-1776. by.
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.
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.
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 was the daughter of a prominent South Carolina patriot leader and the wife of another Revolutionary patriot. She achieved posthumous recognition as a writer when her husband published Memoirs of the Life of Martha Laurens Ramsay (1811).
Using Martha Laurens Ramsay's spiritual diary and correspondence and investigating contemporary sources, Joanna Bowen Gillespie has crafted a contextual biography that reconstructs with...
