Noble Deeds of American Women / With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent
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Eng d by J.C. Buttre. MARTHA WASHINGTON., FROM STUART'S PICTURE
SIXTEENTH THOUSAND.
Such examples should be set before them as patterns for their daily imitation.
Locke
NEW EDITION REVISED. NEW YORK: MILLER, ORTON & CO., 25 Park Row. 1857.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by GEO. H. DERBY & Co., In the Clerk's Office of the Northern District of New York.
This work was suggested by one of a similar character, entitled Noble Deeds of Woman, an English work, which contains but three references to American Women, two of which are of but very little importance. Only one article is the same in both works, and that is the letter written by Mrs. Sigourney to the women of Greece, in 1828, in behalf of the ladies of Hartford.
This failure to do justice to American women, may have been an oversight; be that as it may, a work of the kind here presented, seemed to be needed, and we regret that its preparation had not been assigned to an abler pen. Multitudes of works have been consulted, and such anecdotes gleaned as it is thought will have a salutary influence on the mind and heart. Should the records of female courage and virtue herein presented to the daughters of the land, encourage, even in the slightest degree, a laudable spirit of emulation, our humble labors will not have been put forth in vain.
Facts are more sublime than fictions; and American women have actually performed all the good, and grand, and glorious deeds which the honest and judicious novelist dares ascribe to the female sex; hence we have found no occasion, in striving to make this work interesting, to deviate from the path of historical truth.
The sources whence our materials have been derived, are largely indicated in the body of the work. Possibly, however, we may have failed, in some instances, to indicate our indebtedness to historians and biographers where such reference was justly demanded; suffice it to say, therefore, once for all, that, although something like two hundred of these pages are in our own language, we deserve but little credit for originality, and would prefer to be regarded as an unpretending compiler, rather than as an aspirant to the title of author.
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OF SOME OF THE MORE PROMINENT.
J. CLEMENT.,
MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY.
Editor's Preface.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON
THE WIFE OF WASHINGTON.
THE WIFE OF JOHN ADAMS.
ANN H. JUDSON.
HUMANITY OF HARTFORD LADIES.
"MOTHER BAILEY."
ELIZABETH HEARD.
THE LADIES OF PHILADELPHIA IN 1780.
COMPLETION OF BUNKER HILL MONUMENT.
LYDIA DARRAH.
MRS. HENDEE.
PATRIOTIC WOMEN OF OLD MIDDLESEX.
THE CACIQUE'S NOBLE DAUGHTER.
HUMANE SPIRIT OF A FOREST MAID.
HANNAH DUSTIN.
THE HEROINES OF BRYANT'S STATION.
MRS. DAVIESS.
A KENTUCKY AMAZON.
HEROISM AT INNIS SETTLEMENT.
BOLD EXPLOIT AT TAMPICO.
DICEY LANGSTON.
REBECCA MOTTE.
ANOTHER SACRIFICE FOR FREEDOM.
A PATRIOTIC DONATION.
"THE LITTLE BLACK-EYED REBEL."
THE WOMEN OF WYOMING.
MARY GOULD.
THE MOTHER OF PRESIDENT POLK.
TRIALS OF A PATRIOT.
INTREPIDITY OF MRS. ISRAEL.
AN INCIDENT IN MISSIONARY LIFE.
A KIND-HEARTED CHIPPEWA.
HUMANITY OF A CHEROKEE.
SELF-SACRIFICING SPIRIT OF THE MISSIONARY.
DARING EXPLOIT OF "TWO REBELS."
ELIZABETH MARTIN.
THE MOTHER'S EFFECTUAL PETITION.
NOTEWORTHY INTEGRITY.
A FAITHFUL MOTHER.
THE WIFE OF COLONEL THOMAS.
EXEMPLARY PIETY.
BOLD ADVENTURE OF A PATRIOTIC GIRL.
MRS. CALDWELL AND THE TORIES.
THE MOTHER OF RANDOLPH
CORNELIA BEEKMAN.
THE MOTHER OF WEST.
HEROIC ENDURANCE.
MATERNAL HEROISM
A MODERN DORCAS.
SARAH HOFFMAN.
HEROISM OF SCHOHARIE WOMEN.
A STERLING PATRIOT.
HEROIC CONDUCT AT MONMOUTH.
COURAGE OF A COUNTRY GIRL.
THE LEDYARDS AT FORT GRISWOLD
SENECA HEROINES.
MARTHA BRATTON.
A POOR WOMAN'S OFFERING.
THE MOTHER OF PRESIDENT JACKSON.
THE YOUNG HEROINE OF FORT HENRY.
A BENEVOLENT WIDOW
ANNE FITZHUGH.
ESTHER GASTON.
THE WIFE OF GOVERNOR GRISWOLD.
BOLD EXPLOIT OF A YOUNG GIRL.
SUSANNA WRIGHT.
PATRIOTISM OF 1770.
MRS. SPALDING OF GEORGIA.
COURAGEOUS ACT OF MRS. DILLARD.
PHOEBE PHILLIPS.
WORTHY EXAMPLE OF A POOR WIDOW.
ELIZABETH ESTAUGH.
KATE MOORE.
CAPTIVITY OF MRS. ROWLANDSON.
MRS. BOZARTH.
THE HEROINE OF STEEL CREEK
BENEVOLENCE OF A COLORED WOMAN.
REBECCA EDWARDS.
"THE BEAUTIFUL REBEL."
HARRIET B. STEWART.
A KIND AND BENEVOLENT WOMAN.
NOBLE EXAMPLE OF PIONEERS.
ANECDOTE OF MRS. SLOCUMB.
STRIKING INSTANCE OF PATIENCE.
SUSANNAH ELLIOTT.
ANECDOTES OF ANNA ELLIOTT.
PATRIOTIC STRATAGEM.
INFLUENCE OF A FAITHFUL TEACHER.
THE WIFE OF THOMAS HEYWARD.
NOBLE DECISION.
A TENNESSEE HEROINE.
MAGNANIMITY OF MRS. M'KAY.
HEROIC CONDUCT OF A DAUGHTER.
HEROIC DECISION.
THE DAUGHTER OF AARON BURR.
FEMALE INTREPIDITY.
THE WIFE OF RICHARD SHUBRICK.
KEEN RETORT OF MRS. ASHE.
PHILANTHROPIC WIFE OF A DRUNKARD.
THE MOTHER OF DR. DWIGHT.
HAPPY RESULTS OF MATERNAL FIDELITY.
SUCCESS OF BOLDNESS.
MARY KNIGHT.
THE WIFE OF WILLIAM GRAY.
ANECDOTE OF MRS. HUNTINGTON.
HOSPITALITY OF MRS. BIDDLE.
KINDNESS OF SOME CONVICTS
MARGARET PRIOR.
NOBLE ACTS OF KINDNESS.
THE WIFE OF DR. RAMSAY.
NOBLE TREATMENT OF ENEMIES.
HUMANITY REWARDED.
MARGARET WINTHROP.
A PIONEER SETTLER'S ADVENTURE.
MRS. McKENNY.
THE FISHERMAN'S HEROIC WIFE.
MRS. JAMES K. POLK.
THE WIDOW JENKINS.
A FAITHFUL LITTLE GIRL.
HOSPITALITY OF CALIFORNIA WOMEN.
SARAH LANMAN SMITH.
A BROTHER SAVED BY HIS SISTER.
PATRIOTIC SACRIFICE OF MRS. BORDEN.
MARGARET CORBIN.
BRAVERY OF MRS. CHANNING.
COMMENDABLE COURAGE.
THE HEROINE OF SHELL'S BUSH.
FATHER TAYLOR'S WIDOWED FRIEND.
SUCCESSFUL DARING.
WORTHY EXAMPLE OF FORGIVENESS
CROOKSHANKS SAVED BY A FEMALE.
A PATRIOTIC ARTIST.
HOSPITALITY OF ELIZABETH BRANT.
BRIEF ANECDOTES.
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