About Ann Head Warder
Lived 1758 – 1829 (aged 70–71). Ann Head Warder was a diarist.
Ann Warder, born Ann Head (1758–1829) was an American diarist. Her journal, kept for her sister, provides an account of Pennsylvania Quaker life.
Life Ann Head was born into a Quaker family in Ipswich, England in 1758. She was the daughter of John Head and Ann Wheeler. Her father was a grocer. In 1779 she married John Warder (1751–1828), a wealthy Philadelphia-born merchant. After a decade of married life in England, the family moved to North America, settling permanently in Philadelphia in 1788.
The couple had ten children, seven of whom lived to be adults.
Works 'Extracts from the Diary of Mrs. Ann Warder'. Pennsylvania Magazine and Biography, vol. 17, pp. 444–461 (1893) and vol. 18, pp. 51–63 (1894).
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