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Lucy Sheldon Beach 1788-1889 & the role of Botany & Outdoor Art at Litchfield...
Lucy Sheldon Beach 1788-1889 by Anson Dickinson (1779-1852) 1831Lucy Sheldon Beach, daughter of Daniel & Huldah Stone Sheldon of Litchfield, Connecticut, was born June 27, 1788. From 1801 until...
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South Carolina's Martha Laurens Ramsay (1759-1811) - Early exemplar for...
Martha Laurens (daughter of Henry and Eleanor Laurens). John Wollaston c 1767Martha Laurens Ramsay (1759-1811), South Carolina gentry wife & mother & exemplar of dutiful womanhood, was born in...
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Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks(1752-1837) Virginia Planter & 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.While she’s often...
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American Botanist Frances Montresor Buchanan Allen Penniman (1760-1834)
Frances “Fanny” Montresor Allen Frances “Fanny” Montresor Allen (1760-1834) is believed to be the illegitimate daughter of British officer John Montresor & Anna Schoolcraft, Fanny was born in...
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Aristocratic Virginian William Byrd records his Tea Drinking (& Women) in his...
William Byrd II (1674–1744) by Sir Godfrey KnellerTea in The Diary of William ByrdWilliam Byrd II (1674-1744) was born in Henrico County, Colony of Virginia. His father, Colonel William Byrd I, had...
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One of the Earliest Paintings of an American Drinking Tea
Susanna Truax Drinking tea in the British American colonies, Gansevoort Limner, possibly Pieter Vanderlyn 1687-1778. Historian Barbara Carson tells us that Direct and regular shipments of tea from...
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Tea Wares among Mid-18C Families of the Chesapeake & Pennsylvania Elite
Afternoon Tea, Thomas Rowlandson (British 1756-1827) Historian Barbara Carson examined 68 inventories made at the death of the males in elite Maryland & Virginia Families between 1741-1760. An...
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On British American Women, Tilt-Top Tea Tables, & the Evolving 18C Consumerism
1733 Thomas Smith (1700–1744), his Family & an AttendantWritten by Curator Sarah Neale Fayen for The Chipstone FoundationTilt-Top Tables and Eighteenth-Century ConsumerismThis excellent 2003...
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A Brief Tea Timeline From China to Boston 12/16/1773 & 1776
Tea Time Line Beatrice Hohenegger tells us about tea in her 2007 book Liquid Jade, The Story of Tea from East To WestBC 2732 Shen Nung, the second of China’s mythical emperors is said to have...
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Tea & Gossip - Satire
John Bowles, 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 carpet in an...
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1746 Princeton University - Women Students?
Early Princeton CollegeIn 1746, Princeton was founded as the College of New Jersey. In 1756, the college was moved to Princeton, New Jersey, which is when the name was changed. Like many other colonial...
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Weaving Flax from the Fields - Not Women's Work in the British American Colonies
Detail 1749 English Engraving Colonial WilliamsburgKathy King tells us in her 2006 article in the Quarterly Archives of theTredyffrin Easttown (Pennsylvania) Historical Society that the colonists who...
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From the Fields - Flax to Homespun - Revolutionary Resistance through Homespun
Spinning Bees, local gatherings to spin yarn, became political meetings as colonial anger about "taxation without representation" grew. The amount of thread & yarn spun at spinning bees was often...
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Pre-Revolutionary Woes involving Taxes, Profits, & Spinning
George Walker, The Costume of YorkshireThe Loom, the Comb, the Spinning Wheel, Would much promote this Country's Weal If we could wear more our own Woollen:We should have kept our Coin and Bullion.For...
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Homespun, Politics, & the American Revolution
New-England Kitchen at the Brooklyn Sanitary DetailEngland considered her American colonies a source of raw materials—wood, hemp, wheat, fish, pitch—and a ready market for finished goods. During the...
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1693 The College of William & Mary - Women Students?
The College of William & MaryEstablished in 1693 in Williamsburg, VirginiaThe second oldest college in America, the original plans for W&M can be traced all the way back to 1618—they never went...
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Women, Tea Parties, & the American Revolution
Detail 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...
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1636 Harvard University - Women Students?
Harvard University Harvard University Established in 1636 in Cambridge, MassachusettsHarvard was the first official college in the United States. It was named after John Harvard, who donated a large...
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Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755) Sails to America & 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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Quaker Women Preachers in 1753 North Carolina
“The Lawfulness of Women Preaching”—Mary Peisley’s Journals & Letters by David Cecelski, August 11, 1018Mary Peisley was a Quaker missionary from Ireland, who visited North Carolina's remote back...
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