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1773 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Hannah Fayerweather Mrs John Winthrop Met
View ArticleJane Franklin Mecom 1712-1794 - Sister to Benjamin Franklin
.Jane Franklin Mecom (1712-1794), favorite sister of Benjamin Franklin, was born in Boston, the youngest of the 17 children of Josiah Franklin, tallow chandler, and of the 10 children of his second...
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1784 Charles Willson Peale 1741-1827 Mrs. Elias Boudinot IV (Hannah Stockton) (1736-1808) Princeton
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Benjamin Franklin's Sister Jane Franklin Mecom
.The New York Times Opinion Pages,Poor Jane’s Almanac By JILL LEPORE, Op-Ed ContributorPublished: April 23, 2011 Poor Jane's AlmanacTHE House Budget Committee chairman, Paul D. Ryan, a Republican from...
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1773 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Mrs Moses Gill Rebecca Boylston Rhode Island
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Shakers under Lucy Wright 1760-1821
Lucy Wright (1760-1821), a Shaker leader & the dominant figure during the period of the society’s greatest growth, was a female successor to its founder, Ann Lee.She was born in Pittsfield, Mass.,...
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1779 Ralph Earl 1751-1801 Mrs. Oliver Wolcott (Laura Collins) VA Mus Fine Arts
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In Business - Widow Elizabeth Peck Perkins
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1780 John Durand Mrs. James Greenway College of William and Mary
View ArticleSarah Osborn's Revolutionay War Service
Sarah Osborn (c 1754-1854) of Albany, New York, married blacksmith Aaron Osborn in 1780. He re-enlisted in the Third New York Regiment of the Continental forces as a commissary sergeant & asked...
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1783 Charles Willson Peale - Portrait Of Mrs. Joseph Blookfield
View ArticleElizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755) Becomes a Quaker
English-born Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755) eloped at age 14 & was a widow 5 months later. Rejected by her family, she sailed for New York in 1732.Forced to sign an indenture to pay for her...
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1783 Ralph Earl 1751-1801 Henriette Luard Brigham Young Univ
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1784 Henry Benbridge 1743-1812 Mrs. William Allston, Jr (Rachel Moore) MESDA
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The proper English kitchen, when we were still the British American colonies...
Frontispiece from Martha Bradley’s “The British Housewife or, The Cook Housekeeper’s and Gardiner’s Companion 1756
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1784 Joseph Wright 1756-1793 Hannah Bloomfield Giles pvt
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1784 Ralph Earl 1751-1801 Anne Whiteside Earl Mead Art Mus
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1785-90 Beardsley Limner Sarah Bushnell Perkins (1771 - 1831) Elizabeth Davis Mrs Hezekiah Beardsley 1749-1790 Yale Univ Art Gallery
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Many colonial women served their food in pewter vessels & used pewter utensils
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1786-93 Beardsley Limner Sarah Bushnell Perkins (1771 - 1831) Harmony Child Mrs Oliver Wright 1765-2861 CWF
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