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Women of the Constitution : wives of the signers / Janice E. McKenney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKenney, Janice E., 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Constitution--Signers--Biography.
- United States.
- Statesmen's spouses--United States--Biography.
- Statesmen's spouses.
- History.
- United States--History--1783-1815--Biography.
- United States. Constitutional Convention (1787).
- Founding Fathers of the United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Women of the Constitution follows in the footsteps of the 1912 work The Wives of the Signers, which was devoted to biographical sketches of the spouses of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. This new publication will be the first work devoted exclusively to brief biographies of the forty-three wives of the signers of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787.
- Each entry includes vital information, when known-such as birth, parents, marriage, children, and death-as well a footnoted biography with its own bibliography. Also provided are illustrations of many of the wives and their homes, as well as an appendix describing the now historic residence in which the signers and their spouses resided. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Ann (Nancy) Ennals Bassett 1
- Elizabeth (Betsy) Garnett Bassett 5
- Jane (Jenny) Ballareau Parker Bedford 9
- Jean Blair Blair 13
- Mary (Molsey) Grainger Blount 17
- Elizabeth (Betsy) Higbee Brearley 23
- Elizabeth Mullen Brearley 25
- Rachel Pierce Broom 29
- Mary (Polly) Middleton Butler 33
- Eleanor Carroll Carroll 37
- Elizabeth Meredith Clymer 41
- Susan Williamson Dayton 47
- Mary (Polly) Norris Dickinson 51
- Catherine (Kitty) Nicholson Few 59
- Catharine Meade Fitzsimons 63
- Deborah (Debby) Read Rogers Franklin 67
- Rebecca Call Gorham 73
- Elizabeth (Betsey) Schuyler Hamilton 77
- Elizabeth (Betsy) Pettit Ingersoll 83
- Ann Beach Johnson 89
- Mary Brewster Beach Johnson 93
- Mary Alsop King 97
- Elizabeth (Betsy) Sherburne Langdon 103
- Susannah French Livingston 109
- Dolley Payne Todd Madison 115
- Margaret (Peggy) Caldwell McHenry 121
- Sarah (Sally) Morris Mifflin 125
- Ann (Nancy) Cary Randolph Morris 131
- Mary (Molly) White Morris 137
- Cornelia Bell Paterson 143
- Euphemia (Affa) Morris White Paterson 147
- Mary (Polly) Eleanor Laurens Pinckney 151
- Sarah (Sally) Middleton Pinckney 155
- Mary Stead Pinckney 159
- Gertrude (Gitty) Ross Till Read 163
- Elizabeth Grimke Rutledge 167
- Elizabeth Hartwell Sherman 171
- Rebecca Prescott Sherman 175
- Mary (Polly) Jones Leech Spaight 179
- Martha (Patsy) Dandridge Custis Washington 183
- Maria Apthorp Williamson 187
- Rachel Bird Wilson 191
- Hannah Gray Wilson Bartlett 197.
- Notes:
- "A Project of the District of Columbia Daughters of the American Revolution."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810884984
- 0810884984
- 9780810884991
- 0810884992
- OCLC:
- 796355063
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