Early American Heroines

Let's hear it for the ladies! I invite everyone to locate on Geni, document their genealogies, and create biographies for the inspiring women of what became the United States of America. Native Americans, Women of the Spanish and French colonies, Early American settlers, frontierswomen, families of the Royal Governors ... don't let my ideas limit yours. I think of the War of 1812 as the cutoff date and no beginning date. If they lived here, we need to know more about them.

Here's a list to start with, please add more.

1. Abigail Adams
2. Annis Boudinot Stockton
3. Betsy Ross
4. Catherine Littlefield Greene
5. Cecily Reynolds Farrar
6. Deborah Sampson
7. Deborah Read Franklin
8. Dolley Madison
9. Dorothy Quincy Hancock
10. Eliza Pinckney
11. Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson
12. Elizabeth Maxwell Steele
13. Emma Lazarus (Project Photo)
14. Esther De Berdt Reed
15. Hannah Lee Corbin
16. Kerenhappuch Norman Turner
17. Laodicea "Dicey" Langston SPRINGFIELD
18. Laura Collins Wolcott
19. Lydia Darragh
20. Margaret Bayard Smith
21. Margaret Corbin
22. Martha Bratton
23. Martha Jefferson
24. Martha McFarland McGee Bell
25. Martha Washington
26. Mary Digges Lee
27. Mary Katherine Goddard
28. Mercy Otis Warren
29. Mary Ludwig Hays
30. Molly Stark
31. Nancy Hart
32. Nanyehi Nancy Ward
33. Penelope Barker
34. Phillis Wheatley
35. Prudence Cummings Wright
36. Rebecca Motte
37. Sacajawea
38. Sarah Livingston Jay
39. Sybil Ludington
40. Theodosia Burr

Resources

• Women's History Blog
• Roberts, Cokie. Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation. New York: William Morrow, 2008. Print.
• Dern, Laura, and Geena Davis. Rabbit Ears Native American Heroines: Song of Sacajawea. Princess Scargo. New York: Random House/Listening Library, 2007. Sound recording.
• American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country webcast with Kay Bailey Hutchinson
• Notable Women
• Founding mothers : the women who raised our nation by Cokie Roberts