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18th Century American Women

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Lucy Berkeley (1683 - 1716)
Burwell is best known for rejecting the fervent and sometimes menacing courtship of Governor Sir Francis Nicholson. The teenaged daughter of a key Virginia family chose to marry Edmund Berkeley, twelve...
Jenet "Jennie Bhan" McNeill (c.1729 - 1791)
tree by Melissa Hahne biography from NCPedia, By Nancy V. Smith, 1991 Janet Smith MacNeill (Jennie Bahn), subject of North Carolina legend, was born in Scotland, the daughter of John, a lowland...
Pvt.(USA), Oliver Dart, Jr. (1839 - 1879)
of those iron demons fired from a mortar on high ground on the 14th Connecticut’s right burst among the prone soldiers in Company D. A 3- by 2-inch fragment smashed into the ground, firing sand into th...
“Queen” Aliquippa, of the Seneca (c.1680 - 1754)
Queen Aliquippa (died December 23, 1754) was a leader of the Seneca tribe of American Indians during the early part of the 18th century. The most commonly repeated story of Aliquippa's life begins wit...
Abigail (Smith) Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (1744 - 1818)
Summary ABIGAIL (SMITH) ADAMS was born 11 November 1744 (observed on 22 November after the calendar revision of 1752), in Weymouth, Massachusetts, to the Reverend William and Elizabeth (Quincy) Smith. ...

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notables

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

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.

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