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A Brief Tea Timeline From China to Boston 12/16/1773 & 1776
Tea Time Line Beatrice Hohenegger tells us about tea in her 2007 book Liquid Jade, The Story of Tea from East To WestBC 2732 Shen Nung, the second of China’s mythical emperors is said to have...
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Tea & Gossip - Satire
John Bowles, a British publisher & printer, produced this satire on gossiping women at the Tea Table in the early 18C. Here five fashionable ladies drink tea at a table placed on a carpet in an...
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1746 Princeton University - Women Students?
Early Princeton CollegeIn 1746, Princeton was founded as the College of New Jersey. In 1756, the college was moved to Princeton, New Jersey, which is when the name was changed. Like many other colonial...
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Weaving Flax from the Fields - Not Women's Work in the British American Colonies
Detail 1749 English Engraving Colonial WilliamsburgKathy King tells us in her 2006 article in the Quarterly Archives of theTredyffrin Easttown (Pennsylvania) Historical Society that the colonists who...
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1693 The College of William & Mary - Women Students?
The College of William & MaryEstablished in 1693 in Williamsburg, VirginiaThe second oldest college in America, the original plans for W&M can be traced all the way back to 1618—they never went...
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1636 Harvard University - Women Students?
Harvard University Harvard University Established in 1636 in Cambridge, MassachusettsHarvard was the first official college in the United States. It was named after John Harvard, who donated a large...
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Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755) Sails to America & Becomes a Quaker
English-born Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755) eloped at age 14 & was a widow 5 months later. Rejected by her family, she sailed for New York in 1732.Forced to sign an indenture to pay for her...
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Quaker Women Preachers in 1753 North Carolina
“The Lawfulness of Women Preaching”—Mary Peisley’s Journals & Letters by David Cecelski, August 11, 1018Mary Peisley was a Quaker missionary from Ireland, who visited North Carolina's remote back...
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18C Women Planning Meals in Colonial America
Colonial meal structures & serving times differ from today. Breakfast was taken early if you were poor, later if you were rich. There was no meal called lunch. Dinner was the mid-day meal. For...
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Henry Benbridge 1743-1812 paints 18C Women
Henry Benbridge (1743-1812). Margaret Cantey (Mrs. John Peyre).Henry Benbridge (1744–1812), early American portrait painter, was born in Philadelphia, the only child of James & Mary (Clark)...
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Women doing Laundry in the 15C - 18C
A Laundress on the Beach, The Decameron, Manuscript 5070. 1432. Arsenal, Paris. Soap, mainly soft soap made from ash lye & animal fat, was used by washerwomen supplied by their masters or...
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George & Martha Washington's Laundry Wash House at Mount Vernon in 18C Virginia
George & Martha Washington's Wash House at Mount Vernon in Virginia Compiled by Sydney Marenburg In the Mount Vernon home of Martha & George Washington. the Laundry or Wash House, enslaved...
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1716 Frances L’Escott (1705-1747) by Henrietta Johnston(c 1674-1729)
1716 Frances L’Escott (1705-1747) by Henrietta Johnston(c 1674-1729)MESDA tells us that Frances L’Escott (1705-1747) was the daughter of the Reverend Paul L’Escott (b.1675), pastor of the Huguenot...
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Eleanor Magruder Briscoe (1766-1806) by John Drinker (1760-1826) 1800-02
Eleanor Magruder Briscoe by John Drinker, in Jefferson County West Virginia 1800-02 When Eleanor Magruder Briscoe was born on January 6, 1766, in Maryland, her father, Alexander, was 46, and her...
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1727 Hannah Callender Sansom (1737-1801)
Hannah Callender Sansom (1737-1801) Her son Joseph's late-18C portrait of his mother at the American Philosophical Society.Hannah Callender Sansom was born on November 16, 1737, into a prominent...
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1761 Charleston SC Painter Mary Roberts flourished c1752-58 (died 1761...
Henrietta Middleton by Mary Roberts flourished c1752-58 (died 1761 Charleston, South Carolina) watercolor on ivory, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtMary Roberts (died 1761) was an...
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American Botanist Frances Montresor Buchanan Allen Penniman (1760-1834)
Frances “Fanny” Montresor Allen Frances “Fanny” Montresor Allen (1760-1834) is believed to be the illegitimate daughter of British officer John Montresor & Anna Schoolcraft, Fanny was born in...
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Lucy Sheldon Beach 1788-1889 & taught Botany & Landscape Art at Litchfield...
Lucy Sheldon Beach 1788-1889 by Anson Dickinson (1779-1852) 1831 Lucy Sheldon Beach, daughter of Daniel & Huldah Stone Sheldon of Litchfield, Connecticut, was born June 27, 1788. From 1801 until...
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South Carolina's Martha Laurens Ramsay (1759-1811) - Early exemplar for...
Martha Laurens (daughter of Henry and Eleanor Laurens). John Wollaston c 1767 Martha Laurens Ramsay (1759-1811), South Carolina gentry wife & mother & exemplar of dutiful womanhood, was born...
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Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks(1752-1837) Virginia Planter & Herbal Doctor
Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks(1752-1837) Virginia Planter & Herbal Doctor 1752 - 1837 Collection of the University of Virginia Art Museum. Painted by John Toole, 1815-1860.While she’s often...
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Declarations by each Colony often differed from the Final US Declaration of...
Maryland’s Declaration of Independence and Its Relationship to the Continental Declaration******Maryland’s Declaration of Independence (July 6, 1776)The parliament of Great Britain has of late claimed...
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Women & The American Revolution
Women & The American Revolution In Colonial America, women were often discouraged from taking an interest in politics & were usually expected to focus only on traditionally 'feminine' matters,...
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Pre-Revolutionary Woes involving Taxes, Profits, & Spinning
George Walker, The Costume of YorkshireThe Loom, the Comb, the Spinning Wheel, Would much promote this Country's Weal If we could wear more our own Woollen:We should have kept our Coin and Bullion.For...
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Women & Revolutionary Tea Wares
Afternoon Tea, Thomas Rowlandson (British 1756-1827) Tea Wares among Mid-18C Families of the Chesapeake & Pennsylvania EliteHistorian Barbara Carson examined 68 inventories made at the death of the...
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Women & The American Revolution The Edenton Tea Party
Illustration from Within Our Power: The Edenton Ladies' Tea Party depicting potential signers gathered for a lively discussion. The book Within Our Power: The Story of the Edenton Ladies' Tea Party was...
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