Bathsheba H. (Morse) Crane, 1811-
Author of Life Letters, and Wayside Gleanings, for the Folks at Home. (Boston: James H. Earle, 1880)
It is unclear if this work is fact or fiction. It appears to be fact and presents the life of Mrs. Crane through a series of letters. She was married to a minister who moved a number of times to new parishes, and one of their stops was Dorchester, seemingly the Stoughton Street Baptist Church. The fourth book, containing six letters on over 50 pages, is supposed to have been written there. The language is a little flowery. “Dorchester, from its proximity to the ocean, its elevation, prospect, and verdure, is a green coronal in the landscape wreath that encircles Boston, and altogether a desirable location. The face of the country is undulating and singularly beautiful, with all the romance and dreamy grandeur of bold, rocky scenery.” … She mentions a number of historical people and events along with the overly elegant description of the scenery.
Her husband Denzel M. Crane was a Baptist clergyman.