Title:
The churchwomen's war at Wequetequock
Author:
Carol W. Kimball
Subjects:
Churchwomen's war at Wequetequock
Sunday School classes held in schoolhouse
Police Gazette of December 1883
Sunday School classes held in schoolhouse
Police Gazette of December 1883
Object ID:
Kim04-036
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Publication Place:
New London, CT
Pubication Date:
12/05/1991
Collection:
Carol W. Kimball
Summary:
Female warriors of Wequetequock refused to surrender to District school committeeman Samuel L. Stanton and friends when they proclaimed that the schoolhouse could no longer be used for the Calvary Episcopal Church's Sunday School classes. In November of 1883, Mrs. Briggs and her female cohorts, along with Mr. Phoebe Dennison, pryed open schoolhouse doors and broke schoolhouse windows and held their Sunday School classes as usual. Suits and countersuits followed but the women prevailed. The Wequetequock Chapel was destroyed by the 1938 hurricane and the old schoolhouse, the women's battleground, burned in 1970.
People:
Chesebrough, William
Palmer, John D.
Briggs, F. Virginia
Stanton, Samuel L.
Dennison, Phoebe
Chesebro, Maria
Casey, Mary
Palmer, John D.
Briggs, F. Virginia
Stanton, Samuel L.
Dennison, Phoebe
Chesebro, Maria
Casey, Mary
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