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Maryland in the Revolution - August 28, 1776 - The Rain and the Retreat
From the Maryland State Archives, written by Emily Huebner in 2013. Director of this project was Owen Lourie.The Rain and the RetreatThe morning of August 28, 1776 dawned cold, gray, and rainy. The...
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South Carolina's Martha Laurens Ramsay (1759-1811) - the exemplar for...
Martha Laurens (daughter of Henry and Eleanor Laurens). John Wollaston c 1767Martha Laurens Ramsay (1759-1811), South Carolina gentry wife & mother & exemplar of dutiful womanhood, was born in...
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Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton 1759-1846, poet, humiliated child, betrayed...
Gilbert Stuart Gilbert Stuart (American artist, 1755-1828) Mrs. Perez Morton (Sarah Wentworth Apthorp)Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846) was an early American poet whose published work of the...
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Biography of America's Earliest Cookbook Author - Amelia Simmons
Amelia Simmons. American Cookery, or the art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards, and preserves, and all kinds...
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Text of Amelia Simmons American Cookery 1796
AMERICAN COOKERY, OR THE ART OF DRESSING VIANDS, FISH, POULTRY, AND VEGETABLES, AND THE BEST MODES OF MAKING PASTES, PUFFS, PIES, TARTS, PUDDINGS, CUSTARDS AND PRESERVES, AND ALL KINDS OF C A K E S,...
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Indian Captive Frances Slocum 1773-1847
Frances Slocum (1773-1847), called Maconaquah, "The Little Bear," an adopted member of the Miami tribe, was taken from her family home by the Lenape in Pennsylvania, on November 2, 1778, and raised in...
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America depicted as a Woman - The earliest Lady Liberties
Early depictions of America as a woman appeared before the Revolutionary War. Allegory of America - Theodor Galle (Flemish engraver, 1571-1633) after Johannes Stradanus (1523-1605) plate 2 from Nova...
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18C The earliest 4th July Celebrations 1776-1800
On July 3, 1776, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail, "The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by...
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A brief history of tea in England & her colonies leading to American "Tea...
Dirk Stoop (Dutch painter, c 1610-1685) Catherine of Braganza c 1661The first recorded drinking of tea is in China, where the earliest records of tea consumption date back to the 10th century BC. It...
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Women, Tea Parties, & the American Revolution
Today we hear about the Tea Party wing of the Republican party. This name refers to the tea party of December 1773, when angry gentlemen of Boston, some costumed as Native Americans, destroyed...
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Our birds are heading South. Birds in Early American History & Images (with...
The birds are heading South. I think this is the perfect time to look at paintings of 18C Americans women & girls with their birds, both in the wild & captured in aviaries & cages.1718...
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Martha Washington's life as 1st Lady in Philadelphia.
1793 John Trumbull (1756-1843). Martha Washington (1731-1802). Although he was sworn in as the first President of the United States of America on April 30, 1789; it wasn't until 1790, that...
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Martha Washington at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78
Martha Washington at the 1777-78 Valley Forge EncampmentNancy K. Loane, author of Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment, writes that Martha Washington was a spiffy dresser,...
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Paintings of Martha Washington made during her lifetime
1757 John Wollaston, Martha Dandridge Custis (later Mrs George Washington)This is the biography of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington from the White House website:"I think I am more like a state...
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Life of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington 1731-1802
.Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born at Chestnut Grove in New Kent County, Virginia, June 2, 1731. Her father, John Dandridge (1700/1701 — 1756), emigrated to Virginia from England with his...
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Boston Slave Poet Phillis Wheatley d 1784
When a London bookseller presented the manuscript of Phillis Wheatley's 1773 Poems on Various Subjects to the Countess of Huntingdon, the anti-slavery English noblewoman was reportedly "fond of having...
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18C American Woman Mrs. John Winthrop, Hannah Fayerweather (1727–1790)
Mrs. John Winthrop 1773 John Singleton Copley (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1738–1815 London)The Metropolitan Museum of Art tells us that Hannah Fayerweather (1727–1790) was the daughter of Thomas...
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1798 America's Earliest Cookbook by Amelia Simmons
American Cookery, or the art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards, and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from...
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18C American Woman Mrs. Jonathan Pinkney, Jr. (Elizabeth Munroe) 1798
Mrs. Jonathan Pinkney, Jr. (Elizabeth Munroe) 1798 by James Peale (American, Chestertown, Maryland 1749–1831 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) The Metropolitan Museum of Art tells us that she lived in...
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Alexander Hamilton's Wife, Girlfriend, Adultery, & Apology
From the Smithsonian Magazine July 25, 2013Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757-1804) by John Trumbull 1806In the summer of 1791, Alexander Hamilton received a visitor.Maria Reynolds, a 23-year-old...
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