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Rosanna was the daughter of John and Rosanna (Cormack) Gordon. She first shows up in the church records of the Union Methodist Episcopal Church in 1824 when she was accepted as a member. She's listed t...
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Jane Peden was a True Heroine of the Revolution, one of only three women recognized with this title in the state of South Carolina. Jane and her sister were credited for saving the lives of a number of...
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The patriots were frequently indebted for important information to one young girl, fifteen or sixteen years old at the commencement of the war. This was Dicey, the daughter of Solomon Langston of Laure...
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Birth: Feb. 26, 1766 Frederick County Virginia, USA Death: Sep. 29, 1867 Wheeling Ohio County West Virginia, USA
The life of Mrs. Cruger is an oft told tale and yet the history of Monument Place ca...
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Notes for Sarah Ridley:
The Heroine of Buchanan Station, Davidson County, TN. A great journal of this battle has been preserved.
"... was born in eastern Tennessee ... and had thirteen children, ...
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Mary Williamson (Davison) b.c.1714, d.1805
Parents: George and Mary Davison
Husband John W. Williamson
Children: 4 girls, 6 boys including Hugh, John, and Mary
Immigrating to the colonies from ...
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There is very little information on Catherine Ridley and I could find no images of her. Most of what I relate was found during research about her father, sister and daughter who were both more well kno...
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I wrote this based upon my research. -Elizabeth R. Laumas
Although the Darragh family were Quakers, and thus, pacifists, their son Charles fought in the Revolutionary War.
During the year 1777, whe...
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From:
Biography: Deborah Champion was born 3 May 1753 in Gilead, Tolland County, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Colonel Henry Champion (1723-1797) and the sister of General Epaphroditus Champio...
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According to:
Mary Leroy Livingston and John Livingston had ten children before her death at which time John eventually married Catherine Livingston (his first cousin).
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A Patriot of the American Revolution for SOUTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor # A063662
Info added per DAR's "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood and published 1895 stating "war ordered o...
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"Disguised as men, Grace and Rachel Martin, ambushed British officers carrying important documents one night. Returning home, they found the officers enjoying a meal their mother had prepared.
The wo...
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"Disguised as men, Grace and Rachel Martin, ambushed British officers carrying important documents one night. Returning home, they found the officers enjoying a meal their mother had prepared.
The wo...
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Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820) was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents of the idea ...
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Poisened 16 men at the "Battle of Huck's Defeat"
Martha and her husband were entrusted with a precious commodity back then - gun powder. With her husband away, Martha was left in charge. Hearing that...
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Margaret Catherine Barry (Moore)
Born: 11/29/1752 in Anson, South Carolina
Died: 9/29/1823 in South Carolina
Father: Professor Charles Moore
Mother: Mary Moore
Spouse: Captain Andrew Barry (1...
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"Patriot in Petticoats"
"This monument, erected in the early 20th century, stands as a reminder of the legendary Mary Musgrove. She is remembered as a character in the 19th-century novel 'Horseshoe R...
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The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh is the story of a young girl who travels with her father into Connecticut during the early 18th century, and her experiences with the native Schaghticoke. ...
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Virginia Dare (born August 18, 1587, date of death unknown) was the first child born in the Americas to English parents, Eleanor (or Ellinor/Elyonor) and Ananias Dare.[1] She was born into the short-li...
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Mary Ramage Dillard 1755 –1836, was young and reputedly quite attractive - and she drew a private's pay in the American Revolutionary War.
from Find A Grave Memorial #29696253
History re...
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Hannah Webster (Emerson) Dustin (1657 - 1736) - Hannah Dustin was a 40-year-old colonial Massachusetts Puritan mother of eight during King William's War who was taken captive with her newborn daughter ...
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Emma Lazarus wrote her own poems. Her most famous work is "The New Colossus", is inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. She is known as an important forerunner of the Zionist movement. She...
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Margaret Stilson was born in 1679 in Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of James Stilson.1 Margaret married William Hilton, son of William Hilton and Anne Parsons, in 1700 in...
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Mary Katherine Goddard (June 16, 1738 – August 12, 1816) was an early American publisher and the first American postmistress.
When on January 18, 1777, the Continental Congress moved that the ...
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Mary Talcott MP
(1637 - 1711)
"Mary (White) Rowlandson Talcott"
My Husband and Captain Henry Kerley had gone to Boston to request that soldiers come to our aid as an Indian attack was possible. While they were gone on February 10, the garrison house in which my fam...
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Lawyer.
Three hundred fifty years ago, a strong-willed, intelligent woman faced the Assembly of colonial Maryland in St. Mary's City with an outrageous demand. Mistress Margaret Brent asked to be a v...
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Mary Musgrove Bosomworth (ca. 1700- ca. 1767), sometimes called the Empress of the Creek Nation , [fn1] played a vital role in the founding of Georgia in colonial America. The daughter of a Creek India...
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Matilda Electa (Joslyn) Gage March 24, 1826-March 18, 1898
Parents: Dr. Hezekiah Joslyn d.1865
Husband: Henry Hill Gage
Children:
Thomas Clarkson Gage
Maud (Gage) Baum
Charles Henry Gage ...
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Methotasa 
(c.1739 - 1825)
"Methelashe", "Methotasa", "Methotashe Opessa", "Marguerite Mary Iacc"
A tree states that: Techacha Rising Sun Morning Star Kishpoko
Birth 1715 in Pennsylvania, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States
Death 1765 in Ohio, United States
is the daughter of Pucksinwah...
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Considered a "Founding Mother" of the Revolutionary War and the Nation. Wrote anti- British propaganda during that time, similar to Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine. Afterward, she wrote a multi volu...
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After being held as a rebel spy aboard a British prison ship in Charleston harbor, Mary planned and executed a daring escape with several other patriots."
After the American Revolution, Mary Esther V...
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The Trumbulls and their sons, Joseph and David were instrumental in supplying the continental armies, the militia and the French forces with supplies of every kind. Their son, John, is known for his Re...
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Catherine Van Rensselaer was born 1734. She was the eldest daughter of John Van Rensselaer and his wife Engeltie Livingston. Her father was lord of the lower or Claverack Van Rensselaer Manor.
"Kitty...
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Working under her supervision, the women and girls of Baltimore made uniforms for Lafayette's troops. Their effort supported his campaign in the South.
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Mary Lindley Murray is known in American Revolutionary folklore as the Quaker woman who held up British General William Howe after the British victory against American forces at Kips Bay. According to ...
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Elizabeth Annesley Lewis, wife of Francis Lewis, was, like Hannah Floyd, driven to an untimely death by the hardships and persecutions she was forced to undergo from the British, because her husband wa...
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MARY KNIGHT, the sister of Gen. Warrell, had the following tribute to her patriotism and humanity paid to her by a New Jersey newspaper in July, 1849: "The deceased was one of those devoted women who a...
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Nancy Morgan Hart (c. 1735 – 1830) was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War whose exploits against Loyalists in the Georgia backcountry are the stuff of legend. Because stories about her ...
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Catharine Littlefield "Caty" Greene (17 February 1755 – 2 September 1814) was the wife of American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene, a mother of five, and noted for being a supporter o...
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Few occurrences in the history of ancient or modern warfare have so strongly influenced the public feeling - have excited so universal a sentiment of horror, or such deep resentment towards the authors...
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Penelope (Pagett) Barker June 17, 1728-December 10, 1787
Parents:
Husbands:
John Hodges, widowed husband of Penelope's sister, Elizabeth
James Craven
Thomas Barker 1713-1787
Children: P...
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Hannah Arnett (White) January 15, 1729-January 10, 1823
Parents:
Husband: Isaac Arnett 1726-1801
Children:
Susan (Arnett) Kollock 1755-1846
William Arnett 1774-1821
A noted patriot of t...
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Elizabeth Clark (Page) 1737-1814
Known as Molly
Parents: Caleb Page and Elizabeth Merrill
Husband John Clark 1728-1822
Children: Elizabeth had 11 children including:
Mary
Caleb
An his...
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A Patriot of the American Revolution for SOUTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor #: A082263 She allowed her house to be burned to expel British soldiers. See story below.
Rebecca Brewton was born in June 15, 17...
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Additional Curator's Notes:
Jean C. Sellards , known as Jenny, was born in 1760 in Pennsylvania, the daughter of Hezekiah Sellards and Jean Brevard. Hezekiah hated neighbors and kept pushing the fami...
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Anne Hutchinson (baptized July 20, 1591[1][2] – August 20, 1643) was a pioneer settler in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands, and the unauthorized minister of a dissident church d...
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Mother of the Boston Tea Party DAR Ancestor # A042592
Sarah Bradlee
by Maggiemac
Wife and Sister of American Patriots
Sarah Bradlee was born on December 24, 1740, in Dorchester, Massachusetts &...
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From Temple Franklins diary .
Scene Four
the most unforgettable of the day ... sallybache Metropolitan Museum Aunt Sally (Sally Franklin Bache). Painted in 1791 by John Hoppner in England. Aunt S...
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Sally Hemings (Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia, circa 1773 – Charlottesville, Virginia, 1835) was an American slave owned by Thomas Jefferson. She is said to have been the half-sister of Je...
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Sybil Ludington volunteered to ride alone through the New York countryside to muster her father's regiment. Her mission was crucial to the patriot victory at Danbury."
Sources:
Sybil Luding...
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Theodosia Bartow
From
F, #552920
Last Edited=19 Nov 2013
Theodosia Bartow is the daughter of Theodosius Bartow. She married, firstly, Lt.-Col. Jacques Marc Prevost, son of Augustin Prevost ...
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" The wife of [Charbonneau] our interpreter we find reconciles all the Indians, as to our friendly intentions--a woman with a party of men is a token of peace. " ---William Clark
Find A Grave Memoria...
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Martha Washington MP
(1731 - 1802)
"Lady Washington", "Martha (Dandridge) Custis Washington", "Martha Custis"
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after he...
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Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, born Martha Wayles (October 30 [O.S. October 19] 1748 – September 6, 1782) was the wife of Thomas Jefferson, who was the third President of the United States. ...
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Laura Wolcott (Collins) : Cause of Liberty Laura Collins Wolcott
1732/3-1794
Wife of Oliver Wolcott
Laura Collins, who was married to Oliver Wolcott, in January, 1759, was the daughter of Captain...
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Kerenhappuch Turner MP
(c.1715 - 1804)
"Heroine of the Battle of Guilford Court House", "Kerenhappuch Norman Turner"
DAR Ancestor #: A117148
According to Steve Norman, Kerenhappuch was born 1715 in Halifax, Virginia and died 1807 in Guiford Co., North Carolina."
Kerenhappuch Norman Turner carried dispatches for A...
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Esther de Berdt Reed (October 22, 1746 – September 18, 1780) was active in the American Revolutionary War as a civic leader for soldiers' relief, who formed and led the Ladies Association of P...
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Eliza Lucas Pinckney was the daughter of Lieut.-Colonel George Lucas of the British Army. About 1738 Eliza migrated with her father from Antigua to South Carolina, where he bought several plantations. ...
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The (Dorothy) Quincy Homestead is a U.S. Historic landmark in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Wife of John Hancock, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Ref: Daniel T. Rogers (b. 1943) family tree si...
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First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She also occasionally acted as what is now described as First Lady of the United States during the administration of Thomas Jefferson, fulfilling the ...
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Deborah (Read) Franklin (about 1708 – December 19, 1774) was the spouse of Benjamin Franklin, a prominent inventor, printer, thinker, revolutionary and Founding Father of the United States. He s...
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Cecily Reynolds MP
(c.1601 - 1660)
"Sisley Greene", "Cicely Bayley", "Cecily Jordan", "Cicily Farrar", "Sisley", "The first southern belle", "Cicely", "Cecily", "Baley", "Farrar", "REYNOLDS", "Jordon", "Jordan"
Cicely Reynolds , born betw 1593 and 1604 in Dorset, England; died 1677 in Farrar's Island, Henrico Co., VA. She was also known as Sisley or Cesley Greene, Reynolds, Farrar, Jordan, Bayley , and Montag...
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A Patriot of the American Revolution for PENNSYLVANIA. DAR Ancestor # A022879 .
Elizabeth "Betsy" Griscom (1 January 1752 - 30 January 1836), popularly known as Betsy Ross , was the eighth of sevente...
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Abigail Adams (née Smith) (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States, and mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth, and i...
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Annis Boudinot Stockton (July 1, 1736 – February 6, 1801) was an American poet.
Stockton was born in Darby, Pennsylvania, to Elias Boudinot, merchant and silversmith, and Catherine Williams....
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Deborah Samson Gannett (December 17, 1760 - April 27, 1827), better known as Deborah Sampson, was an American woman who impersonated a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American ...
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A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor #: A130537
16. ELIZABETH "BETTY"6 ZANE (WILLIAM ANDREW5, NATHANIEL4, ROBERT3, ROBERT SR.2, SIMON1) was born 19 July 1759 in Moorefiel...
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Nancy Prophetess Na-ni Ghi-Ga-U aka Nancy Ward Nanye-hi ("One Who Goes About") Ward (Ani'-Wa'ya = Wolf Clan (Nanye'hi)) Click to view Nancy Prophetess Na-ni Ghi-Ga-U aka Nancy Ward Nanye-hi ("One Who G...
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Rebecca (Bryan) Boone (June 9, 1739 – March 18, 1813) was an American pioneer and the wife of famed frontiersman Daniel Boone.
She was born near Winchester, Virginia. Her parents were Joseph...
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Martha Carrier - A Spiritual Giant, and Pioneer Puritan Feminist.
Martha Carrier , one of the alleged "witches" killed during the Salem Witch Trials. She boldly proclaimed her innocence as those arou...
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