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An Act Concerning Feme-Sole traders. Pennsylvania,
1718. |
An Act for the Prevention of Undue Election of Burgesses. Virginia, 1699. |
Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford, 1765-69. |
The Bostonian's paying the excise-man, or tarring & feathering. London, 1774. |
Chase, Samuel. Baron and Feme: A Treatise of the Common Law Concerning Husbands and Wives. London, 1700. |
Feme Sole Trader Statutes. South Carolina, 1712, 1744. |
| Gouge, William. Of Domesticall Duties. London, 1622. | The Law's Resolution of Women's Rights. London, 1632. |
| No Stamped Paper to be Had. Philadelphia, 1765. | Stamp Act Tea Pot, 1766. |
| Intolerable Acts, 1774 | Thomas Fitch, Reasons why the British colonies, in America, should not be charged with internal taxes, by authority of Parliament; humbly offered, for consideration, in behalf of the colony of Connecticut. 1764. |
| Jeremy Belknap. The history of New-Hampshire. Volume II: Comprehending the events of seventy five years, from MDCCXV to MDCCXC . | The Old Deluder Act (1647) From Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (1853), II: 203 |
“Letter II. to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies in America,” The New-York Journal; or, The General Advertiser; June 9, 1774, issue 1640, p1. |
“To the Publisher of the Boston Evening Post,” Boston Evening Post, June 6, 1738, issue 150, page 1 |
[Mentor], “How a Nation may be Ruined, and Reformed,” The Boston Gazette, and Country Journal, January 10, 1763, issue 406, p. 1. |
Bridenbaugh, Carl, ed. Gentleman's Progress, The Itenerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton 1744. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1948) p. 55. |
Painted Corner Cupboard, Accomack County, Virginia, Yellow Pine, 1750-1760, Collection of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as reproduced in T. H. Breen, Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 46. |
Ethel Armes, comp. and ed., Nancy Shippen, Her Journal Book (New York: B. Blom, 1968.), 173. |
| Hannah Winthrop letter, Hannah Winthrop to Mercy Warren, [April or May 1775], Warren-Adams Letters, 1:409-11 | Elaine Forman Crane ed. The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker: The Life Cycle of and Eighteenth-Century Woman. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). See October 6, 25, 1777, November 5, 25, 1777; December 19, 21, 31, 17771; February 1,5,19, 1778; March 20, 1778. |
Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries 1751. Labaree, Leonard W., et al., eds. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. 35 vols. to date. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959-1999. 4:225-234. |
Four dissertations, on the reciprocal advantages of a perpetual union between Great-Britain and her American colonies. Written for Mr. Sargent's prize-medal. To which (by desire) is prefixed, an eulogium, spoken on the delivery of the medal at the public commencement in the College of Philadelphia, May 20th, 1766. (Philadelphia: Printed by William and Thomas Bradford, at the London Coffee-House, 1766), p. 55. |
| “A Brief Consideration of New-York, with Respect to Its Natural Advantages: Its Superiority in Several Instances, over some of the Neighboring Colonies,” The Independent Reflector; January 18, 1753, issue 8, page 31. | Andrew Eliot. An evil and adulterous generation. A sermon preached on the publick fast, April 19. 1753. By Andrew Eliot, M.A. Pastor of a church in Boston (Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland, for J. Winter, over against the King's Arms in Union-Street., 1753), p. 21. |
| Benjamin Rush, "Thoughts upon Female Education, Accommodated to the Present State Of Society, Manners, and Government. . .,” delivered in 1787 at the Young Ladies’ Academy of Philadelphia, in Frederick Rudolph, ed., Essays on Education in the Early Republic (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965), pp. 27‑40. | Papers of Jeremy Belknap, III, Collections of the MHS, LIV (Boston, 1891) as cited in Mary Beth Norton,Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996), 260. |
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