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This suggestion earned her the nickname, "Mother of the Tea Party." She was an active member of the Daughters of Liberty throughout the Revolution, and in later years, she helped to coordinate volunteer nurses to assist with the Battle of Bunker Hill. [6] Sarah Franklin Bache was a Daughter of Liberty and the daughter of diplomat Benjamin ...
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation is a 2000 book written by Joseph Ellis, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History. It explores selected interactions among a group of individuals both gifted and flawed; interactions that profoundly influenced the early development of the United ...
Pauline Alice Maier (née Rubbelke; April 27, 1938 – August 12, 2013) was a revisionist [1] historian of the American Revolution, whose work also addressed the late colonial period and the history of the United States after the end of the Revolutionary War.
She went by the nickname "Ann" to distinguish her from her mother. Jonathan was a farm laborer, and Ann was one of the couple's six surviving children. Orphaned at the age of eight, Ann grew up in the home of an uncle. At the age of 19, she married Amos Story of Ipswich, Massachusetts, on September 17, 1755, in Preston. Amos was a hired farm ...
Ann Lee (29 February 1736 – 8 September 1784), commonly known as Mother Ann Lee, was the founding leader of the Shakers, later changed to United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing following her death. She was born during a time of the Evangelical revival in England, and became a figure that greatly influenced religion at this ...
Elizabeth "Betty" Zane was married twice and was a mother of nine children. Before her first marriage, she bore a daughter, Minerva Catherine Zane, also known as Miriam, by one Capt. Van Swearingen. Court records in Ohio County, Virginia, show an order for Van Swearingen to deed property to Betty Zane, so the daughter would be provided for and ...
Sons of Liberty is an American television History Channel miniseries dramatizing the early American Revolution events in Boston, Massachusetts, the start of the Revolutionary War, and the negotiations of the Second Continental Congress which resulted in drafting and signing the 1776 United States Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The French Revolution: Mary Robinson's novel, The Natural Daughter with Portraits of the Leadenhead Family, was heavily influenced by the French Revolution that was taking place during the time that she was writing. Despite the novel being a fictitious rendition of the Reign of Terror, the novel reflects Robinson's own life as an actress and ...