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David Hall (1714 – December 24, 1772) [a] was a British printer who immigrated from Scotland to America and became an early American printer, publisher and business partner with Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia.
Cooke, Stuart Tipton. "Jacksonian Era American History Textbooks" (PhD Dissertation, University of Denver. Proquest Dissertations Publishing, 1986. 8612840. Estes, Todd. "Beyond Whigs and Democrats: historians, historiography, and the paths toward a new synthesis for the Jacksonian era." American Nineteenth Century History 21.3 (2020): 255–281.
Katharine [1] Greene Amory (Nov. 22, 1731–April 22, 1777) was an 18th-century Bostonian known for the journal she kept during the American Revolution. It is valued by historians for its record of daily life and for its window onto the viewpoint of a Loyalist woman.
Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (c. 1735 – 1807) was a Quaker woman of late 18th century North America who kept a diary from 1758 to 1807. [1] This 2,100 page diary was first published in 1889 and sheds light on daily life in Philadelphia, the Society of Friends, family and gender roles, political issues and the American Revolution, and innovations in medical practices.
Bedlow's acquittal sparked a series of protests including riots that destroyed the brothel in which the rape occurred and a number of other bawdy houses run by women. . Outrage at the trial stemmed in part from sympathy with Lanah Sawyer, but also from class resentments among the city’s working men who felt disparaged by the elitist arguments of Bedlow’s lawyers during the
It must be admitted that a very disproportionate space is given to the hypothesis that the American natives are descended from the lost ten tribes of Israel. Thomas Thorowgood , adopting an old idea of the Spanish Las Casas, had first maintained this theory in English in 1650 in his Jewes in America.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing portrait of Wolcott as Secretary of the Treasury. Born on January 11, 1760, in Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, British America, Wolcott served in the Continental Army from 1777 to 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, then graduated from Yale University in 1778, where he was a member of Brothers in Unity and read law in 1781.
Anne des Cadeaux (unknown—1754), was a Native American active in early colonial Louisiana, [1] [2] and was from one of the early Louisiana Creole families. She was a devout Catholic, and was enslaved but later gained her freedom.