Sally Wister's Journal: A True Narrative Being A Quaker Maiden's Account Of Her Experiences With Officers Of The Continental Army, 1777-1778

Sally Wister’s Journal is an engaging account of a young Quaker girl’s experiences during the American War of Revolution.\nWhen the British invaded Philadelphia in 1775, Sally Wister and her family left their gentile suburban life and moved to the countryside of North Wales, fifteen miles away from the city.\nThroughout this time, she kept a daily journal in the form of letters to her close friend Deborah Norris who remained in Philadelphia.\nHer lively letters, beginning in 1777 when the British entered nearby Germantown, describe the war from the point of view of a girl of sixteen. She gives a unique insight into Quaker life continuing during the years of war.\nOne of the most interesting aspects of Sally Wister’s Journal is her record of the American soldiers who stayed with the family and who visited them throughout 1777 and 1778.\nWith extensive footnotes and an illuminating introduction from Albert Cook Meyers, this journal is both a valuable historical record and an engaging and amusing narrative of a young Quaker girl during a tumultuous time in her country’s history.\nSarah (Sally) Wister was born July 20, 1761, and lived in Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. She is principally known as the author of Sally Wister's Journal, written when she was sixteen. She returned to Philadelphia in 1778 where she remained until her death in 1804.