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Virginia Dare
Officially, the first person born in America to English parents. (Roanoke Island, Virginia) -
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet is the first published American woman writer. -
Henrietta johnston
Henietta Johnston works as a portrait in Charles Town, South Carolina, making her the first known professional artist in America. -
Mary Katherine Goddard
Mary Katherine Goddard and her widowed mother become publishers of the Providence Gazette newspaper and the annual West's Almanack, making her the first woman publisher in America. In 1775, Goddard became the first woman postmaster in the country (in Baltimore), and in 1777 she became the first printer to offer copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers' names. In 1789 Goddard opened a Baltimore bookstore, probably the first woman in America to do so. -
Mother Bernardina Matthews
Mother Bernardina Matthews establishes the first community of Roman Catholic nuns in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
First women to recieve a MD in the U.S. -
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Anne Brancroft
