Elizabeth Drinker
1735 - 1807
The affluent Drinker family lived in Old City just a block away from Elfreth’s Alley, and Elizabeth would eventually join the worship community here at ASMH after the meetinghouse’s construction in 1804.
Her diary, which spans 49 years of her life, is one of the only (and best!) accounts of life in Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
As Quakers, she and her husband, Henry, were pacifists and anti-war. Henry was among the 19 Quakers exiled to Virginia in 1777 by the Patriots for not taking an oath of loyalty to the new government.