Grace Growden

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Grace Growden was an 18th-century American woman best known as Grace Growden Galloway, a prominent Loyalist diarist whose writings provide a rare female perspective on the social and political upheavals of the American Revolution.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Loyalist
diarist
human
alsoKnownAs Grace Growden Galloway
centuryOfActivity 18th century
countryOfCitizenship British America
documentedEvent British occupation of Philadelphia
Loyalist exile and property disputes
ethnicGroup American colonist
familyName Growden
fieldOfWork autobiographical writing
historical documentation
genre diary
memoir
personal narrative
givenName Grace
historicalSignificance primary source on Loyalist civilian experience
rare female-authored Loyalist account
languageOfWorkOrName English
maritalStatus married
marriedName Grace Galloway
movement Loyalism
notableFor documenting social and political upheavals in colonial America
providing a female Loyalist perspective on the American Revolution
notableWork diary of Grace Growden Galloway
occupation diarist
participantIn American Revolution
placeOfOrigin Pennsylvania
politicalAlignment Loyalist
primarySourceType manuscript diary
regionOfActivity Middle Colonies
Thirteen Colonies
relative Elizabeth Growden
Lawrence Growden
religion Christianity
residence Philadelphia
Province of Pennsylvania
sexOrGender female
socialClass colonial elite
landed gentry
spouse Joseph Galloway
spouseOccupation politician
spousePoliticalAlignment Loyalist
workSubject American Revolution
Loyalists in Pennsylvania
property confiscation during the American Revolution
social life in colonial Philadelphia
women in the American Revolution

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Grace Growden Galloway birthName Grace Growden