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"Don't forget the Ladies"

And you can rest assured that we have not! Those famous words were uttered in 1787 by Abigail Adams to her husband, John Adams, as he and others set off to create the American Constitution. This section of the Online Library is dedicated to the vital role women played in the American Revolution and the formation of the United States of America.

Go to this web link for ‘The Women of the American Revolution,’ by Elizabeth Ellet, 1849: http://www.fortklock.com/amwomen.htm/
or you may purchase the book here:
http://www.amazon.com/Women-American-Revolution-Volumes-II/dp/0975366726/

We also recommend reading ‘American Athenas: Women in the Revolution,’ by Tina Ann Nguyen: http://www.americanrevolution.org/nguyen.html

This page is sponsored by Green Rose Design.

Martha Washington
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/mw1.html
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/martha.html http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=1 http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/bios/biomwash.cfm

Abigail Adams
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/aa2.html http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=2
http://www.masshist.org/bh/aadamsbio.html
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Abigail_Adams/

Dicey Langston
http://www.diceylangston.com/

Lydia Barrington Darragh
http://www.ushistory.org/march/bio/lydia.htm

Mary Slocumb
http://www.americanrevolution.org/women28.html http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/wayne/heritage/slocumb.txt

Margaret Cochran Corbin
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/corbin.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/corbin.html

Esther DeBerdt Reed
http://www.americanrevolution.org/women3.html

Mercy Otis Warren
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2002/warren.html
http://www.masshist.org/bh/mercybio.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/10966/data/bwarren.shtml
http://www.nndb.com/people/669/000114327/
http://www.dlewis-sculpture.com/mercyOtis.htm
http://www.samizdat.com/warren/observations.html

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Engraving of Dicey Langston shielding her father from a band of Loyalists

	"The Centennial morning dawns! As the fiery chariot of the God of Day rises from the bosom of the Atlantic, and the mountain peaks catch his first beams, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, the cannons voice is heard from ten thousand throats of iron, hailing the birthday of the Nation, and the chorus of thunder is swollen into a pause of praise by the mingling shouts of patriotism."

	~ G. W. Woods, Surgeon. from an Address delivered at the American Centennial Celebration at the Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu, July 4, 1876. Source: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu: July 8, 1876.