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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...
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Portrait of 18C American Women
1760 Joseph Blackburn fl 1752-1778 Mrs John Pigott LACounty Mus Art
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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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Portrait of 18C American Women
1760-65 Joseph Badger (1708-1765). Sarah Badger Noyes. Dallas Mus Art
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Martha Dandridge Custis Washington 1731-1802 (Mrs George Washington) & Slavery
1757 John Wollaston (1710-1775) Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731-1802) (Daniel Parke Custis) (George Washington)When George Washington took over Mount Vernon at age 22, there were 18 slaves....
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Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) & John Adams on Womens Sufferage
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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Portrait of 18C American Women
1761 Jeremiah Theus 1716-1774 Polly Ouldfield of Winyah SmithsonianThe Smithsonian tells us thatPolly Ouldfield was born into a life of privilege. Her father was a member of the Commons House of...
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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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Free Black Men and Women in Maryland
In Church. The Illustrated London NewsFrom the 17C on there was a growing free black population in Maryland. This population grew quickly in the antebellum years. African Americans were usually...
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In Business - Ann Donavan Timothy 1727-1792 - Publisher of the South Carolina...
Ann Timothy (c1727-1792), printer & newspaper publisher, was born Ann Donavan, probably in Charleston, S.C. At St. Phillip’s Church in Charleston, on Dec. 8, 1745, she married Peter Timothy...
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Portrait of 18C American Women
1761 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Mrs Samuel Quincy Hannah Hil Boston Mus of Fi
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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 18C American Women
1761 Jos Blackburn Eliz Browne Rogers Reynolda House WinstonReynolda House tells us that Joseph Blackburn completed his portrait of Elizabeth Browne Rogers in 1761 during the period of time that he...
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Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818), Mrs. John Adams - The Adams' Home at...
1798 Watercolor of the Old House of John & Abigail Adams by E. Malcom The Old House, built in 1731, became the residence of the Adams family for 4 generations from 1788 to 1927.Abigail Smith was...
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Portrait of 18C American Women
1762 Joseph Blackburn (fl in the colonies 1754-1763). Anne Saltenstall San Antonia Museum of Art.The San Antonio Museum of Art tells us that Anne Saltonstall was 22 years old when she posed for Joseph...
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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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Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks(1752-1837) Virginia 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.Lucy Meriwether Lewis...
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Martha Dandridge Custis Washington 1731-1802 at Valley Forge during the...
Nancy K. Loane, author of Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment, writes that Martha Washington was a spiffy dresser, assertive, and definitely a woman of independent means.[1] And...
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Portrait of 18C American Women
1762-63 Joseph Blackburn fl 1752-1778 Mrs Samuel Cutts MetArtist Joseph Blackburn, a British immigrant, worked in the Boston area for only 9 years before returning to England. Companion portraits of...
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