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Hopestill Pillow Memorial
Hopestill may refer to: * Hopestill Cheswell, African-American builder of the John Paul Jones House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1758, originally built for Captain Gregory Purcell * Hopestill Pillow Hopestill Harland Pillow (28 June 1857 – 28 May 1895) was a Baptist missionary to India. Early life Pillow was born in 1857 in Lewisham, Kent, England. She was the third child of Thomas Pillow and Ann Aspin. New Zealand Pillow emigrated wi ... (1857–1895), English Baptist missionary to India * , a US Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919 * ''Hopestill'', a British vessel which was shipwrecked at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 3 October 1762 - see List of shipwrecks in 1762 {{disambig, given name, ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Paul Jones House
The John Paul Jones House is a historic house at 43 Middle Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Now a historic house museum and a National Historic Landmark, it is where American Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, resided from 1781-82 when it was operated as a boarding house. He also lived in a home in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on Caroline Street, owned by his brother. History The -story wood-frame house was built in 1758 by the master housewright Hopestill Cheswell, a successful African-American builder in the city.Mark J. Sammons and Valerie Cunningham, ''Black Portsmouth: Three Centuries of African-American Heritage'' (2004), pp. 32-33, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hopestill Pillow
Hopestill Harland Pillow (28 June 1857 – 28 May 1895) was a Baptist missionary to India. Early life Pillow was born in 1857 in Lewisham, Kent, England. She was the third child of Thomas Pillow and Ann Aspin. New Zealand Pillow emigrated with her family to Christchurch, New Zealand. She attended Oxford Terrace Baptist Church. Missionary work and death In 1889, Pillow departed Christchurch to join the Zenana Missions, in Calcutta, India. The ''Lyttelton Times'' records the meeting at Oxford Terrace Baptist Church to mark her departure:Last evening the Oxford Terrace Baptist schoolroom was well filled with friends assembled to say “farewell” to Miss Hopestill Pillow, on the occasion or her leaving as a missionary in the Zenana work... Mr Carey, on behalf of the Rev Mr Driver, Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society of New Zealand, proposed the following resolution : —“That we hereby acknowledge our gratitude to Almighty God for having raised up from our midst a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
