The Daring Exploits of Elizabeth, Grace, and Rachel Martin
Lithograph of Grace and Rachel Martin disguised as Continental soldiers attacking two British soldiers and a courier in South Carolina’s Ninety-Six District The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library
Women and spinning bees support boycott of British cloth. (1768)
Fifty-one women in Edenton, North Carolina sign a declaration to boycott British goods. (1774)
Ladies' Association of Philadelphia begins fund-raising for Continental Army. (1780)
Abigail Adams
Martha Washington
Mercy Otis
Molly Pitcher
Catharine Moore Barry
Nancy Hart
Phyllis Wheatley
Deborah Sampson
Prudence Wright
Lucy Knox
Catharine Greene
Sybil Ludington
This episode, "Revolutionary War Women," features a discussion of the remarkable lives of Phyllis Wheatley and the Brewster Sisters.