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Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Ann M. Little
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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An eye-opening biography of a woman at the intersection of three distinct cultures in colonial America Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wh
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Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Ann M. Little
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-27 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696–1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholi
Esther
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Pages: 342
Authors: Julie Wheelwright
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In 1703, a war party of French soldiers and Abenaki warriorsraided the village of seven-year-old Puritan girl EstherWheelwright, taking thirty-nine captives and
Colonial Intimacies
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In 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachusetts Bay town of Punkapoag, confessed in an English court to having committed adultery. F
Not All Wives
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Karin A. Wulf
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Marital status was a fundamental legal and cultural feature of women's identity in the eighteenth century. Free women who were not married could own property an