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Ashbridge, Elizabeth

(1713-1755) Irish/American writer. Elizabeth Ashbridge was an indentured servant who immigrated from Ireland to America in 1732. She later returned to Ireland.
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Running to Myself: Mary Rowlandson and Elizabeth Ashbridge

"Both Mary Rowlandson, a 17th-century Puritan, and Elizabeth Ashbridge, an 18th-century Quaker, sought spiritual enlightenment and conversion in colonial America."

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