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Author: Beeman, Anna

Biography:

BEEMAN, Anna, formerly Keeney (1739-1809: ancestry.com)

A hymn writer and Baptist polemicist, she was born in Stratford CT, the daughter of Abigail (Dickinson) and John Keeney. On 15 Dec. 1757 she married Park (or Parke) Beeman in Kent CT; their nine children were all born in Kent. From 1750 until his death in 1802, Park Beeman was employed as a tax collector at Warren CT. Her Three Letters to a Lady in Opposition to the Baptist Plan (1794) defends the Baptist practice of adult baptism. (Todd 1; ancestry.com 21 Nov. 2017, 5 July 2025) HJ

 

Books written (1):

Hymn[s] on Different Spiritual Subjects. In Two Parts. Part I. Containing XXVI Hymns, on Various Subjects, Suitable for Christian Worship. By Benjamin Cleavland . . . Part II. Containing XXXII Hymns by Anna Beeman . . . and XXIV Hymns by Amos Wells. . . . To Which is Added a Number of Hymns by Different Authors. Particularly Adapted to the Baptist Worship .

4th edn. [of Cleavland's Part One only] Norwich [CT]: printed by John Trumbull, 1792