Gender: Women

Jemima Condict

1754-1779 I wrote an interesting diary of the events leading up to and during the Revolution. I was born in 1754, the daughter of Daniel Condict, a farmer from Pleasantdale,

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Jane Demarest

1743 – ???? My family was torn apart and destroyed by the Revolution. I was born in 1743 in Bergen County and in 1761 married David G. Demarest. When the

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Mary Peale Field

1743 – 1816 I was a widow whose home was nearly destroyed by war. I was born in Philadelphia in 1743 to Oswald and Lydia Peale. I married a prominent

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Hannah Caldwell

1737-1780, Presbyterian Minister’s Wife My story is a sad one, and it made me a symbol of the fight for freedom. I lived in Elizabethtown, after moving from Newark to

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