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What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “TO BE SOLD, By ELIZABETH VAN DYCK.” The front page of the July 30, 1770, edition of the New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury featured a letter “To the PRINTER”...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “HANNAH COLEMAN, … late apprentice to Mrs. Wish.” Hannah Coleman made mantuas. These loose gowns worn by women first came into popularity in the late seventeenth...
Coffee had been popular in Boston for over a century, when the Revolutionary women of the town became patriotically incensed. Many women owned coffee houses, which traditionally had been frequented by men. Dorothy Jones had been issued a license to sell...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (January 9, 1769). “The Business of Shoe-making is carried on as usual.” Mary Ogden likely never appeared in the public prints prior...
Rebecca A. Johnson, “Betty Washington Lewis,” The Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington, Betty Washington Fielding Lewis 1733-1797Betty Washington Lewis was more than just the only sister of George Washington to survive to adulthood;...
Deborah Read Franklin (1708–1774)Deborah Read Franklin (c. 1708-1774) was born to John & Sarah Read, a well respected Quaker couple. John Read was a moderately prosperous building contractor & carpenter who died in 1724. Read had three...
Mary Katharine Goddard (1738-1816), likely the United States’ first woman employee, this newspaper publisher was a key figure in promoting the ideas that fomented the RevolutionAn illustration of Mary Goddard (Brown Library)By Erick TrickeyNovember...
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.A 1751 petition to Philadelphia's Overseers of the Poor conveyed the request of Mary Marrot and her daughter for more refined fare in the almshouse. Although they appreciated the plentiful...
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Earlier in the century, trade was often characterized in moral rather than political terms. Benjamin Franklin's fabricated letters to the editor on the behavior of a lying and cheating shopkeeper,...
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Descnbing the customs of eighteenth-century Nantucket, Hector St John de Crevecoeur praised the industnousness of the wives of the town, who, compelled by their seafanng husbands' long absences, were...
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Author Daniel Defoe 1660-1731 argued for the necessity of women being trained in accounting and business skills, such training provided economic benefits to the family, particularly preservation...
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Boston retailer Hannah Newman, who ran a shop with her daughter Susannah, bequeathed only paltry sums to her two sons In her will, Newman elaborated on the qualities her daughter possessed that earned...
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.A 1718 Pennsylvania law ordered that the wives of men who went to sea should be considered independent traders with legal rights in court. It was designed to protect women from unscrupulous and absent...
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.In New York seven women retailers held tavern licenses for at least one year dunng the period 1757-65, Tavern Keeper's License Book, 1757-1766, New York City, Mayor's Office,New-York Historical...
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Feme sole traders were married women who avoided coverture, a series of legal restrictions that usually accompanied marriage. According to historian Linda Kerber, "Feme sole status was ... a legal...
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Sometime on July 9, 1797, Hannah Holland strode into her bank to get a loan. She learned the next day that her application had been successful but the news barely affected her busy day. The businesswoman...
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Everything indicates that, should need arise, there was nothing in the social or economic code of the times to prevent a woman's supporting herself and her family in whatever way she best could. ......
The Alexander Papers at the New-York Historical Society Library contain the records of the mercantile business of Mary Alexander and provide a glimpse into the life of a colonial NYC businesswomanFrom the New-York Historical Society LibraryMary Alexander’s...
Apprentice Female Tinsmith? Detail Ferblantier (Tin Plate Maker) Encycopedia of Diederot & d'Alembert 1765 Traveling through the English countryside in 1741, William Hutton happened upon a blacksmith's shop, where he saw "one or more females, stripped...
In the 1500s & 1600s, the millinery business involved shopkeepers who dealt in milanese (as in Milan, Italy) ware, like silks, ribbons, armor, swords & other Italian goods. Millinery, however, began to change its meaning as swords & armor...
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