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Women, Tea Parties, & the American Revolution
Philip Dawes, A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina. Published in London in 1775.The Boston tea party occurred in December 1773, when angry gentlemen of Boston, some costumed as...
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10-Year-Old Nova Scotia Girl Learning about Proper Tea Ettiquite at Finishing...
Anna Green Winslow (1759-1779) was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the daughter of Joshua Winslow & his wife Anna Green. In 1770, at the age of 10, she was sent south to a finishing school in Boston,...
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A Day in the Life of a Gentry Wife in a Colonial Southern Town
Probably French 2nd Half of 18CTo understand the well-to-do housewife in the colonial American South, the most important fact to remember is that she was completely subordinate to her husband. He was...
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Taxation & a Looming Separation from Britain led some Colonial Gentle Ladies...
Unknown artist Detail 18C Family Tea-c1745 Yale Center for British Art Paul Mellon Collection Drinking tea was nearly forsaken in the British American colonies (except for American grown substitutes)...
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Tea for Parties for Children & Adults, Courting & Marriage in the 18C America
Joseph Van Aken (Antwerp-born British painter, c.1699‑1749) Detail of AFamily at Tea 1725At first the scarcity & expense of the tea, the costly paraphernalia used to serve it, & the leisure...
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Tea in the Lfe of a Wealthy Widow in 18C New York
Margarita Schuyler was a wealthy housewife in the countryside near Albany, New York. She was born in January 1701, the daughter of Johannes Schuyler & Elsie Staats Wendell. She was raised by her...
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Scot John Harrower notes Women & Tea Drinking in his Journal upon arriving in...
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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Serving Tea in Philadelphia - Martha Dandridge Custis Washington 1731-1802...
Washington's Philadelphia Residence on High Street.Although George Washington was sworn in as the first President of the United States of America on April 30, 1789; it wasn't until 1790, that...
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Colonial Ladies' TEAPOTS publicize 1765 - Colonists Unite Against The Stamp...
Defense of the American colonies in the French and Indian War (1754-63) and Pontiac's Rebellion (1763-64) were costly affairs for Great Britain, and Prime Minister George Grenville hoped to recover...
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A Tiny Tea Story
Creamware Tea Pot from Leeds c 1780In America during the 18th century, young & the old from all levels of society occasionally spent their leisure time taking tea together.Elizabeth Fuller...
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1788 Parents & Children - An American Family at Tea
1788 Johannes Eckstein (American artist, 1736-1817) The Samuels Family (with tea!)Family portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies, perhaps because they were expensive & usually...
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Selling Tea in South Carolina - Eleanor Reazon, 18C Female Shopkeeper
April 14, 1767 This post is from The Adverts 250 Project which is conducted by Carl Robert Keyes, professor of history at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Students from Colonial...
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Taking Wine & Tea on a 1754 Picnic while Fishing on the River in Annapolis,...
Fishing in the British American colonies was a social sport, & the outcome was as unpredictable then as it is nowadays. This poem appeared in the 1754 Maryland Gazette about preparing a list of...
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Women Preparing Tea differed over Time & Place in 18C America
Before British taxation efforts & the American Revolution politicized tea, the acquisition of new domestic equipment for serving this hot beverage & the display of genteel behavior when...
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Tea & Gossip - Satire in Early 18C Britain
John Bowles (1701?-1779), a British publisher & printer, produced this satire on gossiping women at the Tea Table in the early 18C. Here five fashionable ladies drink tea at a table placed on a...
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One of the Many Teapots of Geo Washington's Mother Mary Ball Washington (c...
Mary Ball Washington’s teapot. Mary loved tea & tea sets, & she trained all her children in the genteel art of tea serving & drinking, something George would carry with him his whole life....
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Early South Carolina Botanist Hannah English Williams (d 1722)
Hannah English Williams (d Dec. 16, 1722) is often described as the earliest woman botanist in America. She was the first female in the American British colonies to gather plant and animal specimens...
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American New York Botanist Jane Colden (1724-1766)
Jane Colden (1724-1766) was described as the "first botanist of her sex in her country" by 19C botanist Asa Gray (1810-1888) in 1843. Although seldom mentioned in early botanical publications, she...
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American Moravian Botanist Anna Rosina Kliest Gambold (1762-1821)
Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania - Home of Anna Kliest Moravian Historical SocietyAnna Rosina Kliest Gambold (1762-1821) was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1762. She is often...
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South Carolina Gardener, Botanist, & Agriculturalist Eliza Lucas Pinckney...
South Carolina's Eliza Lucas Pinckney's (1722-1793) observations of & contributions to botany & gardening & agriculture in South Carolina were immense. And the insights from her letters...
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