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Thankful Owen was an English academic in the mid-17th century.

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Owen was born in London and educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He was a fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1642 to 1650; and president of St John's College, Oxford, from 1650 to 1660.

Thankful Southwick (1792 – 1867) was an American civil rights campaigner. She was an affluent Quaker abolitionist and women's rights activist. Thankful was a lifelong abolitionist who joined the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1835 with her three daughters. She was present at both the 1835 Boston Mob and the Abolition Riot of 1836.

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Thankful was also involved in the women's rights movement and was an attendee and signer of the call of the first National Women's Rights Convention held in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1850. Thankful and Joseph Southwick's house was both a gathering place for fellow abolitionists and a stop on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves. During her years of activism in Boston, Thankful and her family were closely acquainted with notable abolitionists and women 's rights activists, including William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Maria Weston Chapman, and George Thompson.

Thankful Peabody is a minor character in the book "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare. The story is set in the 17th century and takes place in the New England colonies, hence the Puritan woman's "virtue name".