Household name: Rebecca Hardy looks for a forgotten woman from a famous Quaker home
‘Dinah lies buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Stenton’s grassy six-acre grounds, with a biography still full of holes.’
One autumn evening in 1777, a year after the Declaration of Independence was signed, and with the revolutionary war raging, a British officer stopped by a grand Quaker house near Germantown (now Philadelphia), looking for deserters.
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