Table of Contents

Introduction
The Author
Author's 1848 Preface
Author's 1850 Preface
The Women of the Revolution
Massachusetts
Abigail Smith Adams
Mary Smith Cranch
Mary Draper
Dorothy Quincy Hancock
Sarah Fuller Hull
Lucia Flucker Knox
Deborah Sampson Gannett
Mrs. Oliver Pond
Sarah Quincy Smith
Mercy Otis Warren
Hannah Winthrop
Mrs. David Wright
New Hampshire (and Vermont)
Frances Brush Allen
Elizabeth Smith Peabody
Rhode Island
Mary Bowen
Catherine Littlefield Greene
Connecticut
Anna Warner Bailey
Rebecca Sanford Barlow
Ursula Wolcott Griswold
Frances Ledyard
New York
Cornelia Van Cortlandt Beekman
Magdalen Bevier
Blandina Elmendorf Bruyn
Jane Cannon Campbell
Mrs. Jackson
Mary Lindley Murray
Janet Livingston Montgomery
Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler
Lady Stirling (Sarah Livingston Alexander)
Margaret Todd Whetten
New Jersey
Elizabeth Rogers Borden
Hannah Ogden Caldwell
Susannah French Livingston
Esther de Berdt Reed
Annis Boudinot Stockton
Martha Stewart Wilson
Pennsylvania
Sarah Franklin Bache
Rebecca Biddle
Margaret Cochran Corbin
Lydia Darrah
Elizabeth Graham Ferguson
Mary Ludwig Hays
Mary Redmond
Esther Skinner
Frances Slocum
Maryland
Anne Frisby Fitzhugh
Delaware
Hannah Erwin Israel
Virginia (and Kentucky)
Mrs. Davis
"John's Wife"
Mrs. John Merrill
Mrs. John Walker
Martha Washington
Mrs. Woods
Elizabeth Zane
North Carolina
artha Polk Brevard
Rachel Craighead Caldwell
Margaret Sharpe Gaston
Mary Hooks Slocumb
South Carolina
Martha Bratton
Mrs. Dillard
Isabella Barber Ferguson
Emily Geiger
Nancy Stinson (Anderson) Green
Mrs. Thomas Heyward
Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson
Sarah Wayne McCalla
Elizabeth Marshall Martin
Mrs. Richard Shubrick
Mrs. John Simpson
Mrs. Strong
Esther Gaston Walker
Eliza Wilkinson
Eleanor Wilson
Georgia
Nancy Hart
Sleeping with the Enemy
Lady Harriet Acland
Margaret Shippen Arnold
Rebecca Franks
Mrs. Mary Harvey
Jane McCrea
Flora McDonald
Margaret Moncrieff
Mary Philipse Morris
Mrs. Munro
Baroness Friederike Von Riedesel
Index

About the Author

LINCOLN DIAMANT studied American History at Columbia University and was a writer for CBS News before he became a biographer and historian of the American Revolution. He is author of eight books, including Chaining the Hudson (1994) and The Broadcast Communications Dictionary (Greenwood, 1989). He has lectured extensively on American History and has served as a commentator for Fox Television.

Reviews

"A wonderful collection of ladies who through seemingly small acts of quiet heroism helped give birth to a free nation. Their selfless acts are an example to all men and women that honor and freedom are worth the price."-Karen Pena, On-site Administrator Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site

"When it comes to exploring the hidden nooks and forgotten crannies of the American War of Independence, historians Elizabeth Ellet (1848) and -- a century and a half later -- Lincoln Diamant make a dream team. Mr. Diamant artfully combines Mrs. Ellet's biographies of more than eighty unusual colonial women -- from Abigail Adams to the anonymous 'John's Wife' -- excising repetition and duplication spread across the original three volume set. In this new one-volume edition, Mrs. Ellet's revolutionary women merit their return to everyone's American Revolutionary bookshelf."-Julie Perin Bird Past President-General, Colonial Dames of America

?Diamant has reorganized, edited, annotated, and augmented Ellet's original volumes resulting in a useful organization by state and region and explanatory notes for the nonspecialist.?-Journal of Women's History

?Women's studies students, as well as Revolutionary War enthusiasts, will find Revolutionary Women an enjoyable read.?-Smoke and Fire News

"Women's studies students, as well as Revolutionary War enthusiasts, will find Revolutionary Women an enjoyable read."-Smoke and Fire News

"Diamant has reorganized, edited, annotated, and augmented Ellet's original volumes resulting in a useful organization by state and region and explanatory notes for the nonspecialist."-Journal of Women's History