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Patience Greene Brayton

Born:                   November 1733 in North Kingston, RI
Death:                      July 30, 1794, Somerset, Massachusetts
 
Abolitionist
 
Bibliography:
 
Brayton Raised Her Voice Against Slavery.  The Providence Journal-Bulletin.  March 24, 1998.  Page C6
 
McDonald, Mary Ann.  The Quiet Crusade: A Biography of Patience Brayton.  Somerset, MA:  Bicentennial Commission Publication, 1976.
 
Somerset Plaque Honors Quaker Patience Brayton. Fall River Herald News.  April 20, 1976.
 
The library has two scripts of a play on Patience Brayton originally written by Mrs. Dorothy Williams.  Mr. John Michael Hurley revised the script for use at the Congregational Christina Church, February 18, 1979. 
 
The library also has slides “Commemoratives of Patience Brayton, April 17, 1976.”
 
 This information available in the Reference Department.