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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1771 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 a Lady LA County Mus CA
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Biography - Cherokee Leader Nancy Ward 1738-1822 of Tennessee
.Nancy Ward (c 1738-1822), Cherokee leader, was probably born at Chota, a Cherokee village on the Little Tennessee River near Fort Loudoun in Monroe County, Tennessee. Her father is said to have been a...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1771 Charles Willson Peale 1741-1827 Margaret Strachan Mrs Tho HarwoodĀ Met
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Biography - American Shaker Founder "Mother" Ann Lee 1736-1784
Shaker Village, Canterbury, New HampshireAnn Lee (1736-1784), founder of the United Society of Believers in Christās Second Appearing, commonly called Shakers in the United States, was born in...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1771 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Mrs Ezekiel Goldthwait Elizabeth Lewis Boston MFA
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Biography - 1780 Revolutionary Women's Relief Effort of Esther De Berdt...
. Ester De Berdt (1746-1780) (Mrs. Joseph Reed) depicted in classical republican dress by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827).Ester De Berdt Reed (1746-1780), leader of womenās relief work during the...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1779 Ralph Earl 1751-1801 Mary Ann Carpenter Mrs Thompson Foster Worce
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Biography - Leading Ladies in Early American Theater Troupes
.Actresses in the 18th-century were generally not regarded with the same respect that male actors were. The stage was not a woman's world, as it was said to be better suited for men. On one hand, women...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1771 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Mrs. Roger Morris (Mary Philipse) Winterthur
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Biography - Georgia's Indian Leader Mary Musgrove c 1700-1763 & Her...
Mary Musgrove (c 1700-1763), Indian leader in colonial Georgia, was the child of a Creek mother & an English trader. Originally named Coosaponakeesa, she was born at Coweta town, then on the...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1771 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Mrs. Thomas Gage (Margaret Kemble) Timken Museum
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Quaker Inventor Sybilla Righton Masters (died in 1720) & Patents for Women
.Sybilla Masters (d. Aug. 23, 1720), inventor, sometimes called Sybella, was the 2nd daughter &Ā 2nd ofĀ 7 children of William & Sara Murrell Righton, Quakers, of Burlington in the colony of West...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1772 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Dorothy Quincy Mrs. John Hancock MFA
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.Madame Montour (c. 1684-c. 1752), interpreter & Indian agent for the colonies of New York & Pennsylvania, spent most of her life among the Indians & was presumably of French & Indian...
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Biography - Writer, Preacher, & Mantua Maker Bethsheba Bowers 1672-1718
.Quaker author and preacher Bathsheba Bowers was born in 1672, in Massachusettes, and died at age 46 in 1718, in South Carolina. She was one of 12 children born to Benanuel Bowers and his wife...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1772 John Singleton Copley Catherine Hill Mrs Joshua Henshaw
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Biography - Sophia Wigington Hume (1702-1774) South Carolina Quaker Minister...
.Sophia Wigington Hume (1702-1774), Quaker minister & religious writer, was born in Charleston, SC., one of the children of Henry Wigington (Wiginton), a prosperous landowner & colony official,...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1774 Ralph EarlĀ Mrs Adam Babcock (Abigail Smith) Nat Gal Art
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Biography - Marylander Ann Teresa Mathews 1732-1800 Founder of the 1st US...
.Marylander Ann Teresa Mathews (1732-1800), founder with Frances Dickinson (1755-1830), of the 1st Roman Catholic convent for women in the United States, was born in Charles County, one of 3 children...
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