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Betty Washington (Mrs Fielding Lewis) 1733-1797 George Washington's Sister &...
Rebecca A. Johnson, “Betty Washington Lewis,” The Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington, Betty Washington Fielding Lewis 1733-1797Betty Washington Lewis was more than just the only sister of George...
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18C Portrait of an American Woman
Mrs. Francis Brinley (1698–1761) and Her Son Francis (1729–1816). 1729 by John Smibert (American, Edinburgh, Scotland 1688–1751 Boston, Massachusetts)The Metropolitan Museum of Art tells us that she...
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18C Portrait of an American Woman
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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18C Portrait of an American Woman
Mrs Sylvanus Bourne 1766 John Singleton Copley (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1738–1815 London) The Metropolitan Museum of Art tells us that Mercy Gorham (1695–1782) was born and raised on Cape Cod,...
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Martha Dandridge Custis Washington 1731-1802 (Mrs George Washington) -...
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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Portrait of an 18C American Woman
Lady Williams and Child 1793 Ralph Earl (American, 1751–1801)
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Portrait of an 18C American Woman
1795 Mrs. Joseph Anthony Jr. (Henrietta Hillegas) Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755–1828)The Met tells us that Mrs. Joseph Anthony Jr., born Henrietta Hillegas in 1766, was one of ten children of Michael...
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John Adams writes to his wife Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) on Thomas Paine...
Thomas Paine. Painting by Auguste Millière (1876), based on an engraving by William Sharpe, based on a painting by George Romney, 1792.Common sense : addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the...
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Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) & John Adams
Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) was a smart, independent woman who said what she believed. Although she had strong feelings about women having an equal voice in the new United States of America, women...
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Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818), Mrs. John Adams, Disagrees with George...
Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818), Mrs. John Adams, by Gilbert Stuart, ca. 1800-1815. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.Elizabeth Bissell Miller, “Abigail Adams,” The Digital Encyclopedia of...
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Martha Dandridge Custis Washington 1731-1802 (Mrs George Washington) & Slavery
1790s Christian Gullager 1759-1826 George Washington.When George Washington took over Mount Vernon at age 22, there were 18 slaves. When he married he gained control of 200 more which technically...
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1784 Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818), Mrs. John Adams, - Letter about French...
Benjamin Blythe 1766 Portrait of Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) 39 year-old Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) to 17 year-old Lucy CranchSunday, 5 September 1784 Written fromAuteuil, Paris, Ville de...
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George & Martha Dandridge Custis Washington's celebrated, enslaved cook,...
Attributed to Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828) Assumed to be a Portrait of Hercules, George Washington's Cook, 1797Hercules was an enslaved African held at Mount Vernon, George Washington's Virginia...
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Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818), Mrs. John Adams - 1st To Occupy The White House
Abigail Smith Adams (Mrs. John Adams), by Gilbert Stuart, ca. 1800-1815. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.First Lady Abigail Adams is remembered as the 1st to live in the White House, as well...
View ArticleTimeline for American Women 1730-1739
1730The population in the colonies is estimated at 655,000William Parks of Maryland establishes a printing press in Virginia.Baltimore is founded in the Maryland colony.Both men & women begin...
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18C Women Across the Globe
1797 Jacques Grasset of Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810), Costumes of Different Countries, Los Angeles County Art Museum
View ArticleTimeline for American Women 1740-1749
1740A great fire destroys half of Charleston, South Carolina.Large numbers of women join churches during the Great Awakening of the 1740s. Some have called this the “feminization of the church.”...
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18C Women Across the Globe
1797 Jacques Grasset of Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810), Costumes of Different Countries, Los Angeles County Art Museum
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Martha Washington's Philadelphia Supervision of the President's House Food &...
1793 John Trumbull (1756-1843). Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731-1802) (Daniel Parke Custis) (George Washington)Hercules: Master of Cuisine, Slave of WashingtonThe Philadelphia Inquier...
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Life for Martha Washington at Mount Vernon Before the Presidency
1757 Detail John Wollaston (1710-1775) Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731-1802) (Daniel Parke Custis) (George Washington)Life for Martha Washington at Mount Vernon Before the PresidencyAt Mount...
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