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January 8th, 2009
Santa Cruz, California
Received by FAB
I am here, Elizabeth Ashbridge [a Colonial American
Quaker].
My Quaker beliefs served me well. Quakers generally don't go through
the severe crisis that greets orthodox Christians on this side,
and that is because their beliefs are closer to the truth.
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755) was an 18th century
Quaker minister born in Cheshire, England. Elizabeth was born in
1713 in the town of Middlewich in Cheshire, England to Thomas and
Mary Sampson. Thomas was a surgeon on sea vessels and Mary was a
pious follower of the Church of England. Mary was widowed in a previous
marriage, and Elizabeth had a step brother and step sister as a
result.
When Elizabeth turned 14, she married a miserly stocking weaver
several years her elder without parental consent. She left with
him only to become a widow herself five months later. This marriage
drove a wedge between herself and her father, who refused to accept
her back in her childhood home. So Elizabeth was sent to Dublin,
Ireland, where she lived for the next five years with some Quaker
relatives of her mother. Her subsequent journey to America was full
of adventure. (Source: Wikipedia)
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