Biography of sarah osborne

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Sarah Osborn

For the Salem witch trial victim, see Sarah Osborne.

Sarah Osborn (February 22, 1714 – August 2, 1796) was an early American Protestant and Evangelical writer who experienced her type of "religious awakening" during the birth of American Evangelicalism and, through her memoirs, served as a preacher.

Osborn wrote about her experience during the First Great Awakening, reviving aspects of religion and a spiritual pilgrimage.^[1] She advised everyone to seek spiritual rebirth and called for a personal salvation experience.^[1]

She would eventually go on to write a series of memoirs, which were later preserved by Samuel Hopkins, entitled Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn, Who Died in Newport, on the Second Day of August 1796 First written on 1742 at the age of 29 as a way to deal with life's difficulties, she quickly became aware of her work's value, and later "emerged as the leader of a remarkable religious revival that brought as many as five hundred people-including large numbers of enslaved people-to her house each week."

Sarah Osborn died in Newport, Rhode Island, on August 2, 1796, at 82.

Early life

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Sarah Osborn was born in London on February 22, 1714, by Benjamin and Susanna (Guyse) Haggar. At eight years old, her

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Sarah Osborne House

Sarah Osborne (alternate spellings Osborn, Osbourne, Osburn) and her second husband, Alexander, lived in this house in 1692. It was originally located on Spring Street (approximately where the driveway leading to the St. John’s Prep Memorial Gymnasium is today) and was moved to this location on Maple Street in 1914. It is a private residence today.

 

The ailing Sarah Osborne was one of the first three to be accused of witchcraft and was examined, along with Sarah Good and Tituba, from March 1-4 at the Salem Village meetinghouse. Four village leaders (Sgt. Thomas Putnam and his brother, Deacon Edward Putnam, Joseph Hutchinson, and Rebecca Nurse’s son-in-law Thomas Preston) filed a claim on behalf of the afflicted girls Betty Parris, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam Jr., and Elizabeth Hubbard on February 29, which led to the arrest of the three women.

 

The four girls claimed Osborne’s specter pinched them, pricked them (Elizabeth Hubbard said she was stuck with knitting needles), and encouraged them to write in the devil’s book.

 

Osborne was a perfect target for a witch hunt. She was an ill and fearful woman in her late 40s, possibly suffering from depression, who was an outcast and subject of gossip partly because her second husband ha