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The Musket-Toting Woman - The Journal of the American Revolution
Journal of the American Revolution Tracking Down the Musket-Toting WomanBy J. L. Bell May 8, 2014The image on the “New Touch on the Times” broadside from about 1779.Scholars have guessed that...
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1778 Ladies dine with Washington at Valley Forge Headquarters - The Journal...
Four Quaker Ladies have dinner with Washington at Mount VernonJournal of the American Revolution An Elegant Dinner with General Washington at Valley Forge HeadquartersBy Nancy K. Loane June 10, 2014On...
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Martha Washington at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78
Martha Washington at the 1777-78 Valley Forge EncampmentNancy K. Loane, author of Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment, writes that Martha Washington was a spiffy dresser,...
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Journal of the American RevolutionAges of Revolution: How old were they on July 4, 1776?By Todd Andrlik August 8, 2013This is a list of ages, from youngest to oldest, of key American Revolution...
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Historians chose the Best Husband-Wife duo - Journal of the American Revolution
Journal of the American Revolution Historians chose the Best Husband-Wife duo during the American Revolution - July 8, 2014Aside from John and Abigail, what was the best husband-wife duo of the...
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Catharine Littlefield 1755-1814 m Rev War Gen Nathanael Greene & helpled Eli...
James Frothingham (American artist, 1786–1864) Catharine Littlefield Greene MillerCatherine “Caty” Littlefield was born in New Shoreham, R.I., on Block Island. The 3rd child of 5, she was the 1st...
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George Washington Seeks Greenhouse Advice From Magaret Carroll in Maryland
1790s Christian Gullager (1759-1826). George Washington (1732-1799).One of the most intriguing greenhouse stories involves Virginian George Washington & Margaret Tilghman Carroll of Maryland.In...
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Men & women adopt the Greenhouse in Early America
The possibility of growing tender plants in greenhouses had fascinated early Americans at least since the 1st half of the 18C in colonial America. But the price of glass in colonial & early America...
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He says, she says - Early 18C English opposing views on the institution of...
.Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710) was a woman ahead of her time, churning out feminist rhetoric, even as she lived her life within the rigid confines of 17C England.To The LadiesWife and servant are the...
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18C Masschusetts women seeks a Divorce from husband who decided to take a new...
.From the Boston Evening-Post, published as Boston Evening Post; February 9, 1756."Eleanor Stickney, the Wife of James Stickney of Hampstead in the Province aforesaid, having complained to the General...
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Rebecca Austin Sherman's messy divorce from her Revolutionary War husband &...
1787 Sherman Limner fl 1785-90 (perhaps Abraham Delanoy 1742-1795). Rebecca Austin Mrs John Sherman & son Henry (1789-1817).Rebecca Austin (1753-1830) married John Sherman (1750-1802) on August...
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New Hampshire's Abigail Abbot Bailey's abusive husband had fought in the...
Abigail Abbot (1746-1815) & Asa Bailey (1745-1815-25) of New Hampshire had been married in 1767; farmed; & produced 14 children over their 25 years of marriage.The Pleasures of Matrimony by...
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Alexander Hamilton's Adultery & Apology
From the Smithsonian Magazine July 25, 2013Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757-1804) by John Trumbull 1806In the summer of 1791, Alexander Hamilton received a visitor.Maria Reynolds, a 23-year-old...
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British loyalist businesswoman Abigail Stoneman
Abigail Stoneman (fl. 1760-1777-84) was a feisty loyalist businesswoman active in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, & New York. It is difficult to construct a biography of her early years, because there...
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Maryland in the Revolution - August 22, 1776 - The British come ashore in New...
From the Maryland State Archives, written by Emily Huebner in 2013. Director of this project was Owen Lourie.The British Come AshoreOn August 22nd, 1776, the British began setting the stage for battle...
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Maryland in the Revolution - August 23, 1776 - They must be well watched...
From the Maryland State Archives, written by Emily Huebner in 2013. Director of this project was Owen Lourie.“They must be well watched”After the British landed on Long Island they advanced to within...
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Maryland in the Revolution - August 26, 1776 - The Marylanders Arrive
From the Maryland State Archives, written by Emily Huebner in 2013. Director of this project was Owen Lourie.The Marylanders ArriveOn August 26, 1776, the Marylanders arrived at Long Island on the eve...
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Maryland in the Revolution - August 26, 1776 - The Vechte-Cortelyou House...
On August 27, 1776, the Vechte-Cortelyou House (known today as Old Stone House), located in JJ Byrne park in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, was an important location in the Battle...
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Maryland in the Revolution - August 27, 1776 - The British Diversion
From the Maryland State Archives, written by Emily Huebner in 2013. Director of this project was Owen Lourie.The British DiversionThe Marylanders were called to battle before sunrise on August 27,...
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Maryland in the Revolution - August 27, 1776 - Becoming the Maryland 400
From the Maryland State Archives, written by Emily Huebner in 2013. Director of this project was Owen Lourie.Becoming the Maryland 400By the afternoon of August 27, 1776, the Battle of Long Island had...
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