18th Century American Women

Bring your well developed profiles of American women of the 1700s to this project.

notables

• Frances Slocum (Mo-con-no-quah, "Young Bear" or "Little Bear") was an adopted member of the Miami tribe.

From List of American women's firsts

• 1700s - Henrietta Johnston becomes the first female artist working in the colonies.
• 1750 - Jane Colden was the first woman in America to win distinction as a botanist.
• 1756 - Lydia Taft was the first woman to vote legally in Colonial America after her husband died and son left her; she was granted permission to vote through a Massachusetts town meeting.
• 1762 - Ann Franklin was the first female newspaper editor in America.
• 1776 - Margaret Corbin was the first woman to assume the role of soldier in the American Revolution and receive a pension for it.
• 1784 - Hannah Adams was the first American woman to become a professional writer.

For inspiration

• 18C American Women Blogspot