Maria van Cortlandt van Rensselaer (1645-1689, New York) 80
Mary Wright Cooper (1714-1778, New York) 84
Abigail Abbott Bailey (1746 - 1778, New York) 84
Judith Cocks (fl. 1795, Georgia) 90
Susan Livingston Symmes (fl. 1794 - 1808, Maryland / Ohio) 92
Martha Laurens Ramsay (!759 - 1811, South Carolina) 94
Rebecca Dickinson (1738 - 1815, Massachusetts) 97
Elizabeth Sandwich Drinker (1734- 1807, Pennsylvania) 100
Businesswomen's writings 105
Martha Daniell Logan 91704 - 1779, South Carolina) 105
Deborah Read Franklin (1708 - 1774, Pennsylvania) 108
Eliza Lucas Pinckney (c. 1722 - 1793, South Carolina) 111
Coosaponakessa (Mary Musgrove Mathhews Bosomworth) (c. 1700 - post-1760, Georgia) 116
Mary Katherine Goddard (1738 - 1816, Maryland) 119
"Death-Bed" Declarations 123
Skate'ne (Choctaw) 123
Sarah Whipple Goodhue (1641 - 1681, Massachusetts) 124
Hannah Hill, Jr. (c. 1703-1714, Pennsylvania) 127
Rebekah Chamblit (? - 1733, Massachusetts) 129
II. Emerging Feminist Voices 133
Feminist Visions 137
Elizabeth Magawley (fl. 1730-31, Pennsylvania) 137
" Aspasia" (fl. 1776-89) 142
Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (1737-1801, Pennsylvania) 145
Judith Sargent Murray (1751 - 1820, Massachusetts) 148
Sarah Pierce (1767 - 1852, Connecticut) 156
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