Demeter's Daughters: The Women who Founded America, 1587-1787Atheneum, 1976 - 359 pages Details the varied activities of colonial women, the extensive legal rights they enjoyed, and the difficulties they faced in a new land. Includes bibliographical sketches of representative women of that period. |
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... friends ? And why are you jealous of our loves , seeing us unarmed , and we both do and are willing still to feed you with that you cannot get but by our labors ? Think you I am so simple not to know it is better to eat good meat , lie ...
... friends ? And why are you jealous of our loves , seeing us unarmed , and we both do and are willing still to feed you with that you cannot get but by our labors ? Think you I am so simple not to know it is better to eat good meat , lie ...
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... Friends , you are here witness , in the presence of God and this assembly of His people , I take this maid , Margaret Matthews to be my loving and lawful wife , promising to be a true and faithful husband unto her till death shall us ...
... Friends , you are here witness , in the presence of God and this assembly of His people , I take this maid , Margaret Matthews to be my loving and lawful wife , promising to be a true and faithful husband unto her till death shall us ...
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... friends . " Montrose J. Moses , editor of Representative Plays by American Dramatists , Volume I , 1765–1819 ... friend John Adams had written to her husband in 1773 that her pen had " no equal that I know of in this country . " At one ...
... friends . " Montrose J. Moses , editor of Representative Plays by American Dramatists , Volume I , 1765–1819 ... friend John Adams had written to her husband in 1773 that her pen had " no equal that I know of in this country . " At one ...
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Daily Life During the American Revolution Dorothy Denneen Volo,James M. Volo No preview available - 2003 |