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Hometown American History

Hometown American History. Women in the Early Colonial Period. Gravestone, Mary Lattimer. Farber Gravestone Collection. Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Her Baby Mary, 1676. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA. Prologue Anne Bradstreet I am obnoxious to each carping tongue

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Hometown American History

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  1. Hometown American History Women in the Early Colonial Period

  2. Gravestone, Mary Lattimer Farber Gravestone Collection

  3. Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Her Baby Mary, 1676 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

  4. Prologue Anne Bradstreet 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. But sure the antique Greeks were far more mild, Else of our Sex, why feigned they those nine And poesy made Calliope’s own child? So ‘mongst the rest they placed the Arts divine, But this weak knot they will full soon untie. The Greeks did nought but play the fools and lie. Let Greeks be Greeks, and Women what they are. Men have precedency and still excel; It is but vain unjustly to wage war. Men can do best, and Women know it well. Preeminence in all and each is yours; Yet grant some small acknowledgement of ours. And oh ye high flown quills that soar the skies, And ever with your prey still catch your praise, If e’er you deign these lowly lines your eyes, Give thyme or Parsley wreath, I ask no Bays. This mean and unrefined ore of mine Will make your glist’ring gold but more to shine.

  5. Hall-Parlor House PlanNew England17th-18th centuries

  6. John Lewis Krimmel, Blind Man’s Bluff (1814) Terra Foundation for American Art

  7. Law and Gender: Adultery Status Punishment Death Married Man and Married Woman Married Man and Unmarried Woman Whipping and/or Fine for Fornication Married Woman and Single Man Death Single Man and Single Woman Whipping and/or Fine for Fornication

  8. The Gibbs Children Museum of Fine Art, Boston (left and middle), and Clay Center, Charleston, WV (right)

  9. Robert Feke, Isaac Royall and His Family, 1741 Harvard University

  10. John Durand, The Rapalje Children, 1768 The New-York Historical Society

  11. “Dignifying the Seats” Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, CT

  12. Prudence Punderson,The First, Second, and Last Scene of Mortality1776-1783 Connecticut Historical Society

  13. Keep Within Compass, 1785-1805 “Enter Not into the Way of the Wicked, and Go Not in the Path of E Evil Men.” Winterthur Museum

  14. A Society of Patriotic Ladies, London, 1765 Library of Congress

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