Aroline Sanborn was a nineteenth century American diarist. She was the wife of Dr. Samuel Bartlett, the great grandson of Josiah Bartlett

Josiah Bartlett

Josiah Bartlett was an American physician and statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire and signatory of the Declaration of Independence...

, one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence

United States Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. John Adams put forth a...

. Mrs. Bartlett was not a well-known or famous woman, but her diary from the mid-nineteenth century is an excellent primary source for students interested in learning more about what domestic life for American women was like in the mid-nineteenth century.

External links

• Harvard University Library Open Collections Program. Women Working, 1870–1930, Aroline Sanborn. A full-text searchable online database
  Online database
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  with complete access to publications written by Aroline Sanborn.