(NEW JERSEY) Kinney Hannah Burnet Diary of a devout Newark w

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(NEW JERSEY.) Kinney, Hannah Burnet. Diary of a devout Newark woman. [56] manuscript pages. 4to, original marbled wrappers, worn at fold; diary clean and legible, last 6 leaves detached; signed on inner wrapper. Newark, NJ and elsewhere, 14 November 1807 to 30 July 1809

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The author was an officer in the Newark Female Charitable Society and a member of the First Presbyterian Church. This diary is primarily a journal of her spiritual life, filled with meditations on her wickedness, and accounts of sermons by her minister Edward Dorr Griffin. A typical passage reads "I had such an overwhelming sense of the awfull situation of my dear husband, children & almost all of my friends, that my strength seems exhausted, my breast ready to bleed, my soul is in bitterness for them. I have, although faint with fasting, a loathing of my food. . . . I do desire if it may comport with thy will to be made an instrument of doing good to the souls, as well as the bodys, of my poor dear stupid family, but alas I fear that is too great a blessing for me to enjoy in the flesh" (5 March 1808). On another occasion, she laments "I am truly a monster of stupidity & ingratitude" (12 February 1808).