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18C Women in Business - Leave Their Business to Daughters
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Boston retailer Hannah Newman, who ran a shop with her daughter Susannah, bequeathed only paltry sums to her two sons In her will, Newman...
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18C Women in Business - Wives of Mariners
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.A 1718 Pennsylvania law ordered that the wives of men who went to sea should be considered independent traders with legal rights in court. It was...
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18C American Woman with a Book
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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18C Portrait of an American Woman
1760 Joseph Badger. Colonial American Artist, 1708-1765, Sarah Larrabee Edes.
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Portrait of 18C American Women
1746 Joseph Badger 1708-1765. Eliz Storer, Mrs. Isaac Smith
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Female Artist of 18C American Women - Henrietta Johnston 1674-1729
Henrietta Johnston was a remarkable woman, not just because she was America's 1st known female portraitist & the 1st artist on this side of the Atlantic known to have worked in pastels, but because...
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George Washington & Female Slaves
George Washington as Farmer by Junius Brutus Stearns. 1851Excerpted from the 1915 book George Washington: Farmer by Paul Leland Haworth (1876-1936) Ch 12 Slaves,,,Visitors at Mount Vernon saw many...
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Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818), Coffee Houses, Business Women, & the...
Alvan Fisher (1792-1863) Coffee ClapThe gentle "ladies" of Boston, staged a "Coffee Party" in 1777, reminiscent of the earlier Boston Tea Party of 1773. The town's women confronted a profiteering...
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18C American Women in Business - Commerce & Character
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Earlier in the century, trade was often characterized in moral rather than political terms. Benjamin Franklin's fabricated letters to the editor on...
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18C American Women in Business - Train in Accounting & Business
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Author Daniel Defoe 1660-1731 argued for the necessity of women being trained in accounting and business skills, such training provided economic...
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18C American Women in Business - Wives of Mariners
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.A 1718 Pennsylvania law ordered that the wives of men who went to sea should be considered independent traders with legal rights in court. It was...
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18C American Women in Business - The Feme Sole Trader
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Feme sole traders were married women who avoided coverture, a series of legal restrictions that usually accompanied marriage. According to...
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18C American Women in Business - Women Banking
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Sometime on July 9, 1797, Hannah Holland strode into her bank to get a loan. She learned the next day that her application had been successful but...
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18C Portrait of an American Woman
Mrs. John Dart, Henrietta Isabella Sommers (1750–1783). 1772 Jeremiah Theus (American, Chur, 1716–1774 Charleston, South Carolina) The Metropolitan Museum of Art tells us that Henrietta Isabella...
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18C American Women in Business - Women & Coffee Houses in Early Boston
Coffee had been popular in Boston for over a century, when the Revolutionary women of the town became patriotically incensed. Many women owned coffee houses, which traditionally had been frequented by...
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Portrait of 18C American Women
1719 Pepperel Limner. J Catherine Adams. In Colonial New England, it was fashionable for wealthy families to hire painters to create portraits of their family members. These portrait painters were...
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18C American Women in Business - Women & Early Coffee Houses in Philadelphia
William Penn is generally credited with the introduction of coffee into the Quaker colony which he founded on the Delaware in 1682. The first public house designated as a coffee house was built about...
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Portrait of 18C American Women
1741 Pieter Vanderlyn 1687-1778 Mrs Myndert Myndertse Jannetje Persen & Sara Terra
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18C American Women in Business - Women & Coffee Houses in 18C New York
New York's First Coffee HouseAlthough the Dutch also had early knowledge of coffee, there is no written evidence that the Dutch West India Company brought any of it to the first permanent settlement on...
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Indentured Servant Scottish Schoolmaster writes of Food, Women, & Children in...
John Harrower (1733-1777) was a 40 year-old Scottish merchant who set out in 1774, for the American colonies as an indentured servant. Like many of the 40,000 residents of the Scottish Highlands who...
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