Deborah Cottnam (original) (raw)

Deborah How Cottnam (c. 1725/1728 – December 31, 1806) was a Canadian poet and schoolmistress. She and her daughter opened a boarding and day school attended by the young daughters of the North American colonist establishment and loyalist gentry, firstly in Salem, Massachusetts and later Halifax, Nova Scotia. Cottnam opened a new school for young girls in the city of Saint John, New Brunswick before retiring in 1793.