COLONIAL DAMES
AND
GOOD WIVES
WRITTEN BY
ALICE MORSE EARLE
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS CAMBRIDGE
Copyright, 1895,
By ALICE MORSE EARLE.
All rights reserved.
TO
THE MEMORY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES
Whose blood runs in my veins
Whose spirit lives in my work
Elizabeth Morse, Joanna Hoar, Esther Mason, Deborah
Atherton, Sarah Wyeth, Anne Adams, Elizabeth
Browne, Hannah Phillips, Mary Clary, Silence
Heard, Judith Thurston, Patience Foster,
Martha Bullard, Barbara Sheppard,
Seaborn Wilson