Hannah Griffitts

Hannah Griffitts (1727–1817) was an 18th-century American poet and Quaker who championed the resistance of American colonists to Britain during the run-up to the American Revolution. Quotes Then for the sake of Freedom’s name,    (Since British wisdom scorns repealing) Come sacrifice to Patriot fame,    And give up tea by way of healing. "'Beware of the Ides of March', Said the Roman Augur To Julius Caesar" (wr. February 28, 1775), st. 3 (ed. Patti Cowell, 1981) MSS. held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Library Company of Philadelphia See also Milcah Martha Moore External links Mary Beth Norton, Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800 (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1980), p. 160 Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (Chapel Hill: North Carolina UP, 1980), p. 39 Patti Cowell (ed.) Women Poets in Pre-Revolutionary America, 1650–1775: An Anthology (Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing Co., 1981), pp. 55–69 Category:1727 births Category:1817 deaths Category:Poets from the United States Category:Quakers Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women born before the 19th century