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Chapter Thirty-Nine “Drops of Grace and Mercy” Zina Baker Huntington (1786–1839) Rachel Cope Biographical Sketch On May 2, 1786, Oliver and Dorcas Dimick Baker welcomed twin daughters, Zina and Lina, into their home in Plainsfield, New Hampshire. In the Baker household, Dorcas, who would ul- timately give birth to twelve children, focused on domestic tasks, while Oliver worked as one of the first physicians in the state. Zina and Lina grew up assisting their mother with chores. Cooking, cleaning, sewing, spinning, weaving, and needlework certainly shaped a significant part of their daily routine. But Zina’s life, at least, was not consumed entirely by such work. She devel- oped intellectual as well as practical skills and cultivated family and social relationships. Reading, writing, and religious engagements, which were both private and public activities in early New England, allowed young women such as Zina to form reading circles and 42
Zina Baker Huntington (1786–1839) 43 other groups that fostered friendships and promoted intellectual engagement. 1 Religion also played an influential role in young Zina’s life. By the 1790s, New England churches experienced what scholars have called a Second Great Awakening. 2 Because the religious revivals that permeated society during that time spread from location to location, conversion became a common phenomenon. Young women in particular accepted religion following a growing sense of conviction. 3 This environment, which encouraged spiritual seeking, fed Zina’s early religious interests. On November 28, 1805, nineteen-year-old Zina Baker married William Huntington Jr., son of William and Presendia Lathrop Huntington, and moved about three hundred miles from her parents’ home in Plainfield, New Hampshire, to the Huntington home in Watertown, New York. 4 In Watertown, Zina created a home of her own, established a social network, and attended church meetings. Like her mother, she would spin, weave, plant and cook; she also assisted her husband in his farm business. Zina taught her 1. Mary Kelley, “‘The Need of Their Genius’: Women’s Reading and Writing Practices in Early America,” Journal of the Early Republic 28, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 3–7. 2. The Second Great Awakening (1790–1840s) was a period of great religious revival in the United States. It resulted in widespread Christian evangelism and conversions. 3. Nancy F. Cott, “Young Women in the Second Great Awakening in New England,” Feminist Studies 3, nos. 1 and 2 (Autumn 1975): 15–18. 4. Watertown, in northern New York state, was settled just four years before Zina’s arrival. It became the seat of Jefferson County. It was in Adams, Jefferson County, New York, where famed revivalist Charles G. Finney had his conversion experience in 1821. See The Memoirs of Charles G. Finney: The Complete Restored Text, ed. Garth M. Rosell and Richard A. G. Dupius (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1989), 16–26; Marianne Perciaccante, Calling Down Fire: Charles Grandison Finney and Revivalism in Jefferson County, New York, 1800–1840 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003).
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