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Women in Colonial Economies

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About the Author

Sara T. Damiano, Ph.D. is a historian of women and gender in early America and the Atlantic World. At the time this essay was written (2022), Prof. Damiano is an assistant professor at Texas State University, with research and course work focused on individuals, especially women, who possessed limited access to formal political and economic power, and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources.

Further Reading

Pawling, Micah A. “A “Labyrinth of Uncertainties”: Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women Proprietors in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The American Indian Quartertly 42, no.4 (2018): 454-487 muse.jhu.edu/article/708887 (retrieved August 2022).

Endnotes

1. Alice Nash, “The Abiding Frontier: Gender, Family, and Religion in Wabanaki History, 1600-1763” (PhD diss, Columbia University 1997), 148-199.
2. Deposition of Jane and Ann Woodside, May 14, 1738, Microfilm of the Henry Knox Papers, vol. 40, item 31.
3. James Berry and Rachel Berry Deed to Proprietors (1716), Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick: Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, collection 61, vol. 1, p. 81-83, Maine Historical Society.
4. Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985), 230; James Berry and Rachel Berry Deed to Proprietors (1716), Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick: Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, collection 61, vol. 1, p. 81-83, Maine Historical Society.
5. Ian Saxine, Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019), 53.
6. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1785-1812 (New York: Knopf, 1990). Ballard's diary is in the Maine State Library's collections, Ms B B189.