Colonial Women of Affairs: A Study of Women in Business and the Professions in America Before 1776Houghton Mifflin, 1924 - 203 páginas |
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... named . If none of the good fathers felt a call to become an innkeeper , the selectmen would choose one who had a large and conveniently located house , and deliver the call to him direct . The standards of what constituted a " large ...
... named . If none of the good fathers felt a call to become an innkeeper , the selectmen would choose one who had a large and conveniently located house , and deliver the call to him direct . The standards of what constituted a " large ...
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... named , from 1740 or 1741 until 1765. Captain Francis Goelet , of whom more anon , mentions putting up his horses at the Widow Pratt's , while he walked about the town , in 1750.3 A notice regarding the settlement of Margaret Pratt's ...
... named , from 1740 or 1741 until 1765. Captain Francis Goelet , of whom more anon , mentions putting up his horses at the Widow Pratt's , while he walked about the town , in 1750.3 A notice regarding the settlement of Margaret Pratt's ...
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... named him John , and Mr. Thacher baptized him . There are several entries concerning baptisms , where Midwife Weeden carried the baby ; on December 13 , 1685 , he notes : 2 Mr. Willard baptizeth my Son lately born , whom I named Henry ...
... named him John , and Mr. Thacher baptized him . There are several entries concerning baptisms , where Midwife Weeden carried the baby ; on December 13 , 1685 , he notes : 2 Mr. Willard baptizeth my Son lately born , whom I named Henry ...
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... named . The following entry regarding one has a very human ring : ' Jan. 13 , 1701-2 . I prayed earnestly by myself and in the family for a Nurse ; Went and expostulated with Mr. Hill about his daughters failing me ; in the mean time ...
... named . The following entry regarding one has a very human ring : ' Jan. 13 , 1701-2 . I prayed earnestly by myself and in the family for a Nurse ; Went and expostulated with Mr. Hill about his daughters failing me ; in the mean time ...
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... named Darrah , I got some relief by a clyster . Mrs. Ellet , in " American Women of the Revolu- tion , " published in 1849 , pictures Mrs. Darragh from a different angle . She says : 1 This anecdote is given in the first number of the ...
... named Darrah , I got some relief by a clyster . Mrs. Ellet , in " American Women of the Revolu- tion , " published in 1849 , pictures Mrs. Darragh from a different angle . She says : 1 This anecdote is given in the first number of the ...
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Página 122 - I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.
Página 54 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 162 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Página xvii - For if she had attended her household affairs, and such. things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way and calling to meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorably in the place God had set her.
Página 130 - Cannoo to carry me to tother side, and hee rid thro' and Led my hors. The Cannoo was very small and shallow, so that when we were in she seem'd redy to take in water, which greatly terrified mee, and caused me to be very circumspect, sitting with my hands fast on each side, my eyes stedy, not daring so much as to lodg my...
Página 125 - Here stood that Trunk, and there that chest; There lay that store I counted best: My pleasant things in ashes lye, And them behold no more shall I. Under thy roof no guest shall sitt, Nor at thy Table eat a bitt.
Página 122 - And oh ye high flown quills that soar the skies, And ever with your prey still catch your praise...
Página 16 - Intituled to some of the Sweets of it; but we find ourselves entirely neglected, while the Husbands that live in our Neighborhood are daily invited to Dine at Court; we have the Vanity to think we can be full as Entertaining, and make as brave a Defence in Case of an Invasion and perhaps not turn Taile so soon as some of them.
Página 126 - My heart was so heavy before that I could scarce speak or go in the path and yet now so light that I could run. My strength seemed to come again and...
Página 112 - English terms. Her father has a plant called after him, Coldenia; suppose you should call this Coldenella, or any other name that might distinguish her among your genera.