Women in the American Revolution

Women had many roles in the American Revolution. Some were "Camp followers" equivalent to Military service Units (food, nursing, repairing clothing, etc.). Many helped organize boycotts of British goods.

Others took a more active role:

• Ann Hennis Trotter Bailey
• Margaret Corbin
• Nancy Hart
• Sybil Ludington
• Molly Pitcher
• Deborah Sampson

Women In The American Revolution Media

• Elizabeth Theus (1742–1797), age 23, first child of Theus and Elizabeth Shaumloffel, wearing a musket and powder horn crown and colonial militia outfit

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  Spinning in the colonial kitchen

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  Molly Pitcher loading cannon at the Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778

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  A portrait of Elizabeth Freeman.

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  Advertisement seeking Oney Judge, an enslaved woman who fled the household of George Washington and escaped to freedom