It is unclear when Heaton began her diary/autobiography, as the first few dozen pages are undated. These undated pages include a visit to Connecticut where she experienced religious conversion.[5] The diary has entries over a period of 40 years, from the Great Awakening through to the American Revolution.[2][6] Her autobiography has been of interest to historians as it chronicles the life of a mother and farmer during the Great Awakening.[7][8]
^ abHeaton, Hannah; Lacey, Barbara E (2003). The world of Hannah Heaton: the diary of an eighteenth-century New England farm woman. DeKalb, Ill: Northern Illinois University Press. ISBN978-0875803128. OCLC834186704.
^Lacey, Barbara E. (1988). "The World of Hannah Heaton: The Autobiography of an Eighteenth-Century Connecticut Farm Woman". The William and Mary Quarterly. 45 (2): 280–304. doi:10.2307/1922328. JSTOR1922328.