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Born March 28, 1652 • England
Died January 1, 1730 (aged 77) • Boston • Massachusetts
Role In Salem witch trials
James Boswell.
James Boswell
Scottish biographer
Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
American writer and aviator
Dorothy Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth
English author
Portrait of novelist Frances Burney
Frances Burney
British author
Patricia Highsmith sits in a wooden chair beside a desk with a typewriter and papers at her home in Locarno, Switzerland.
Patricia Highsmith
American writer
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut
American writer
William Byrd of Westover
William Byrd of Westover
American colonial diarist
Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles
Gideon Welles
American politician
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Thomas Creevey
English politician
Evelyn Waugh, photograph by Mark Gerson, 1964.
Evelyn Waugh
English author
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Susan Shelby Magoffin
American diarist
Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin
French author
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Sir Harold Nicolson
British diplomat and author
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John Woolman
American religious leader
Rose O'Neal Greenhow.
Rose O’Neal Greenhow
American Confederate spy
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Sarah Kemble Knight
American diarist
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Simon Gray
British dramatist
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Christopher Gist
American colonial explorer
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Elizabeth Mavor
British author
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Harry Crosby
American poet and publisher