Category: Esther Edwards

On October 11, 1754, Esther Edwards Burr (1732-58), the third of Jonathan and Sarah Pierpont Edwards’s eleven children, writing in her diary, called her best friend Sarah Prince (1728-71): “the Sister of my heart.” The special spiritual friendship between these two godly young women is largely recorded in Esther’s Journal written between 1754 and 1757.…