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New England - Slavery of African Males & Females in Connecticut
Connecticut Mr. Hooker & his people travelling through the wilderness. 1636Slaves were mentioned in Hartford from 1639 & in New Haven from 1644. As in the rest of New England, they were few...
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1763 American Mother & Child
1763 William Johnston (1732-1772). Mrs Jacob Hurd & Child.
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1747 Ben Franklin - Why should unmarried pregnant women be fined & whipped,...
"The Speech of Polly Baker" was 1st published in the April 1747 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine.Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Wilson, 1759 The speech of Polly Baker, before a Court of Judicature, at...
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1760 American Mother & Child
1760 Joseph Blackburn (fl in the colonies 1754-1763). Mrs Isaac Winslow and Hannah.
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Wife Selling in 17C-19C Britain & her American colonies
Sale of a Wife in Smithfield MarketNow is your time gemmen; here's my Fat Heifer and ten pounds worth of bad Halfpence, all for half a Guinea, why her Hide's worth more to a Tanner; I'll warrant She's...
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1737 A broken-hearted, vindictive, & humiliated John Wesley 1703-1791 flees...
On February 28, 1784, an elderly John Wesley (1703–1791) officially chartered the 1st Methodist Church in the United States. Despite the fact that he was an ardent Tory & still an Anglican, Wesley...
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Scot John Harrower on arriving in America 1774
John Harrower Leaves London for Virginia, 1774John Harrower, a 40-year-old shopkeeper & tradesman, lived in the far north of the British Isles. Like many of the 40,000 residents of the Scottish...
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1757 American Mother & Child
1757 John Singleton Copley (1737-1815) Mrs Daniel Rea and Child.
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Equality & Education for 18C American Girls & Slaves
Anthony Benezet (1713-1784) was a Quaker teacher, writer & strong believer in the equality of women & in the abolition of slavery. He was born to a Huguenot (Protestant) family in France. When...
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Portrait of 18C American Women
1754 Joseph Blackburn fl 1752-1778 Elizabeth Pelham Mrs Peter Harrison Redwood Library
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18C Early American Timeline 1710-1729
1711 Artist: Henrietta Johnston 1674-1729. Subject: Henriette Charlotte de Chastaigner, Mrs Nathaniel Broughton17103,000 German men and women from the Palatinate settle near Livingston Manor on the...
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1793 American Mother & Child
1793 Ralph Earl (1751-1801). Sarah McCurdy (Mrs. Henry Channing) and Son Henry William
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Portrait of an 18C American Woman
Elizabeth Paddy Wensley. Unknown artist, Boston, 1670–1680. The Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, Massachusetts
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