This modern, annotated adaptation of the original three-volume edition of Women of the American Revolution by Elizabeth Ellet restores, in a single volume, a unique compilation of the roles played by eighty-four American women in the Revolutionary War. A best-seller in the 1850s, Ellet's work is here carefully edited for today's readers by a distinguished Revolutionary War historian. It contains a new introduction and many explanatory footnotes. A new organization arranges these biographies from north to south by colony, underlining the vast differences in class and culture among the various states.While not America's earliest female historian, Elizabeth Ellet may easily lay claim to being America's first historian of women. Before publication of her books, readers had come close to losing track of the important role played by women in the War for Independence. Ellet preserved these valuable stories through reliance, whenever possible, on first-person accounts which are still as fresh and compelling today as they were in the nineteenth century. A vivid and comprehensive account which will be of interest to both military historians and scholars of women's history.

IntroductionThe AuthorAuthor's 1848 PrefaceAuthor's 1850 PrefaceThe Women of the RevolutionMassachusettsAbigail Smith AdamsMary Smith CranchMary DraperDorothy Quincy HancockSarah Fuller HullLucia Flucker KnoxDeborah Sampson GannettMrs. Oliver PondSarah Quincy SmithMercy Otis WarrenHannah WinthropMrs. David WrightNew Hampshire (and Vermont)Frances Brush AllenElizabeth Smith PeabodyRhode IslandMary BowenCatherine Littlefield GreeneConnecticutAnna Warner BaileyRebecca Sanford BarlowUrsula Wolcott GriswoldFrances LedyardNew YorkCornelia Van Cortlandt BeekmanMagdalen BevierBlandina Elmendorf BruynJane Cannon CampbellMrs. JacksonMary Lindley MurrayJanet Livingston MontgomeryCatherine Van Rensselaer SchuylerLady Stirling (Sarah Livingston Alexander)Margaret Todd WhettenNew JerseyElizabeth Rogers BordenHannah Ogden CaldwellSusannah French LivingstonEsther de Berdt ReedAnnis Boudinot StocktonMartha Stewart WilsonPennsylvaniaSarah Franklin BacheRebecca BiddleMargaret Cochran CorbinLydia DarrahElizabeth Graham FergusonMary Ludwig HaysMary RedmondEsther SkinnerFrances SlocumMarylandAnne Frisby FitzhughDelawareHannah Erwin IsraelVirginia (and Kentucky)Mrs. Davis"John's Wife"Mrs. John MerrillMrs. John WalkerMartha WashingtonMrs. WoodsElizabeth ZaneNorth Carolinaartha Polk BrevardRachel Craighead CaldwellMargaret Sharpe GastonMary Hooks SlocumbSouth CarolinaMartha BrattonMrs. DillardIsabella Barber FergusonEmily GeigerNancy Stinson (Anderson) GreenMrs. Thomas HeywardElizabeth Hutchinson JacksonSarah Wayne McCallaElizabeth Marshall MartinMrs. Richard ShubrickMrs. John SimpsonMrs. StrongEsther Gaston WalkerEliza WilkinsonEleanor WilsonGeorgiaNancy HartSleeping with the EnemyLady Harriet AclandMargaret Shippen ArnoldRebecca FranksMrs. Mary HarveyJane McCreaFlora McDonaldMargaret MoncrieffMary Philipse MorrisMrs. MunroBaroness Friederike Von RiedeselIndex