Hannah Heaton is a

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woman known for chronicling in a diary her experiences during the Great Awakening in the northern American royal colonies.

Autobiography

It is unclear when Heaton began her diary/autobiography, as the first few dozen pages are undated. These undated pages include a visit to

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where she experienced religious conversion. The diary has entries over a period of 40 years, from the Great Awakening through to the

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. Her autobiography has been of interest to historians as it chronicles the life of a mother and farmer during the Great Awakening.

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1721 births 1794 deaths American diarists American women memoirists 18th-century American non-fiction writers 18th-century American women writers 18th-century diarists {{US-nonfiction-writer-stub