III. Origins, Revolutions, and women in the nations 161
First Women 173
Sky woman (Iroquois) 173
The first ship (Chinook) 175
Margaret Tyndal Winthrop (c. 1591-1647, Massachusetts) 176
Susanna Moseley (fl. 1649-50, Virginia) 179
Katherine Marbury Scott (fl. 1658, Rhode Island) 180
Barbara Smith (fl. 1689, Maryland) 181
Mary Herendean Pray (fl. 1675, Rhode Island) 184
Hannah Callowhill Penn (1671-1726, Pennsylvania) 187
Mary Stafford (fl. 1711, South Carolina) 189
Elizabeth Bland (fl. 1735, Georgi) 193
Spiritual Narratives 197
The ghost bride and the ghost wife (Pawnee) 197
Two girls and the dancers (Zuni) 199
Sister Crackbone (fl. c. 1640, Massachusetts) 200
Mary Traske and Margaret Smith (fl. 1660, Massachusetts) 202
Bathsheba Bowers (c. 1672 - 1718, Pennsylvania) 204
Jane Fenn Hoskens (1694 -? Pennsylvania) 207
Sophia Wigington Hume (1702 - 1774, South Carolina) 210
Jemima Wilkinson (1752 - 1819, Rhode Island) 213
Captivity Narratives and travel journals 217
Mary White Rowlandson (1637? - 1711, Massachusetts) 217
Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727, Massachusetts) 221
Elizabeth Meader Hanson (1684-1741, New Hampshire) 224
Mary Lewis Kinnan (!763 - 1848, Virginia) 227
Mary Coburn Dewees (fl. 1787-88, Pennsylvania / Kentucky) 230
Epistolary Exchanges 235
The winthrop women (1630s - 1640s, Massachusetts) 235
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