Wikipedia:Meetup/FemTechNet/VastEarlyAmerica

Editing Session

Date: Friday, January 18, 2019
Location: Face-to-face informal editing session held at Omohundro Institute at William & Mary, OI conference room
Event: Wikistorm/ edit-a-thon
Session Description: The Omohundro Institute will sponsor part 2 of the #VastEarlyAmerica Wikistorm, “Women Make History,” on Friday, January 18, 2019, 10:00-2:00, in the OI conference room, on the ground floor of Swem Library, campus of William & Mary. Food will be available during the whole session. All are invited to join the Wikistorm for as much time as they are able. Join your colleagues and friends as we work to add or augment entries for 100 women from #VastEarlyAmerica on Wikipedia, and help each other solve puzzles and problems encountered during the editing process. Please bring your own computer.
Hashtag: #VastEarlyAmerica #WMWomen
For more info: https://oieahc.wm.edu/events/lectures/wikistorm/

Past Workshop Info

Date: Saturday, November 3, 2018
Location: Face-to-face class session held at Omohundro Institute at William & Mary
Event: Wikistorm/ edit-a-thon
Workshop Description: The Omohundro Institute will sponsor a #VastEarlyAmerica Wikistorm, “Women Make History,” on Saturday, November 3, 10:00-2:00, in the Ford Classroom, on the ground floor of Swem Library, campus of William & Mary. Lunch will be served in the Botetourt Gallery of Swem Library for all participants from noon to 2:00. All are invited to join the Wikistorm for as much time as they are able. Breakfast and lunch will be served.
Hashtag: #VastEarlyAmerica #WMWomen #MyMotherWasAComputer
For more info: https://oieahc.wm.edu/events/lectures/wikistorm/

Resources

Archives & Databases & Research Resources

American Antiquarian Society
America: History and Life
Jstor and other databases available through your library
Journal of the American Revolution
Williamsburg Research Reports
Encyclopedia of Virginia
George Washington Digital Encyclopedia
American National Biography
Magazine of American History
Pictorial Fieldbook of the Revolution by Benson Lossing
Eye Witness to American Revolution
Founder's Online & Rotunda (the annotations in documentary editions are especially helpful)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Encyclopedia's from other states (Nc, SC, GA, etc.)
Dictionary of Virginia Biography
Historical Society of Pennsylvania and other historical society's (research reports)

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Tasks list

spreadsheet link List from Efc8d & registered participants

If you are unsure of who to work on, the list below is a helpful place to start. Names in bold are known to have secondary resources available to cite.

Ann Moore Huntington
Catherine Garretson Livington
Janet Livingston Montgomery
Mary Stead Pinckney
Mary Smith Cranch
Ruth Baldwin Barlow
Anna Coles Payne Causten
Mary Estelle Elizabeth Cutts
Elizabeth Scott Smith Spencer
Sarah (Sally) Coles Stevenson
Sarah McKean Martinez d'Yrujo
Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett
Elizabeth Willing Powel
Frances "Fanny" Bassett Washington Lear
Hannah Stockton Boudinot
Annis Boudinot Stockton
Margaret Green Savage
Mary Stilson Lear
Christiana Campbell
Jane Vobe
Jane Hunter Charlton
Margaret Hunter
Joanna Tyler McKenzie
Clementina Rind (needs expansion)
Sarah Packe Green
Catherine Rathell
Mary Postell
Lucy Payne Washington Todd
Catherine "Kitty" Foster
Sally Cottrell Cole
Deborah Champion
Betsy Dowdy
Eliza Wilkinson
Hagar Blackmore
Penelope Van Princis Stout
Elizabeth Lamboll
Elizabeth Haddon Estaugh
Margarethe Jungmann Bechtel
Mary Slocumb
Martha Daniell Logan
Martha Ann Honeywell
Martha Corey
Obour Tanner

She is a friend to Phillis Wheatley. The two women write letters to each other. The extant letters are from 1772 to 1779 (and are largely housed at the Massachusetts Historical Society). Tanner is later president of the women's auxiliary organization of the African Benevolent Society in Newport, Rhode Island. She dies in 1835 and is eulogized in her the Rhode Island Republican.

Chloe Spear

She is a resident of Boston and a contemporary of Obour Tanner and Phillis Wheatley. She has a memoir that is penned by an unnamed amanuensis. Her memoir is available at Documenting the American South.

A settler of Roswell, Georgia. For a time, she was the owner of Mimosa Hall (c. 1841). Archival material available in the Georgia Historical Society: https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/157010768

Jane Webb

I came across Jane Webb while doing research for my dissertation in Virginia county court records. She is a mixed race, free woman of African descent who was active in the country courts on the eastern shore of Virginia. She married an enslaved man, and so she became the legal face of her family. Her efforts to guard the freedom of her children ought to be better known.I have published on her: ‚ÄúMarriage on the Margins: Free Wives, Enslaved Husbands, and the Law in the Early American South,‚Ä Law and History Review, vol. 30 (February, 2012), 141-172; as well as in‚ÄúJane Webb and Her Family: Life Stories and the Law in Early Virginia,‚Ä in Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times, vol. 1 eds. Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2015), 64-93.

Anna/Anne Williams

Anna/Anne Williams, an enslaved woman in early national Washington, D.C. was immortalized in Jesse Torrey's *Portrait of Domestic Slavery* (1816). She was sold with her two daughters; while awaiting transport to the Deep South in a tavern in the District of Columbia, she jumped out of the window.She survived the fall and became a cause for abolitionists; Torrey published an account of an interview with her and included an etching of her leap. I have published on her in *The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America" (University of Chicago Press, 2015), but other historians -- Richard Bell, Robert Gudmestadt -- have written about her as well. Documents on her freedom suit can be found on the online database, O, Say Can You See.

Virginia Ferrar

(promoter of sericulture in Virginia; see Allison Bigelow's recent article Gendered Language and the Science of Colonial Silk)

Magdalen Herbert

(coincidentally part of the same extended Herbert-Ferrar network as Virginia Ferrar as well as the female bookbinders at Little Gidding). Mother of George/Edward Herbert, married to John Danvers, dedicatee of a lot of poetry, tangled up in Virginia Company financing through her husband. PS This is an amazing event!! I am sorry I cannot join on the day, but I may be able to in future if this event repeats.

Amelia Simmons

author of American Cookery, the first printed cookbook by an American woman. The cookbook has a page, but she does not. Unfortunately, we know very little about her biography.

Susie M. Ames

one of less than 500 women to receive a PhD in History between 1920 and 1940. Her dissertation and later editorial work are credited by TH Breen and Stephen Innes as essential to their book "Myne Own Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore". http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.asp?b=Ames_Susie_May

Lucy Parke Byrd

first read about her in "Empire of My Heart" an article in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography available on JSTOR.

Elizabeth Drinker

The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker

Mother Bernadina Matthews

of Charles County, Maryland led the group of four nuns (3 American, one English) who left Flanders and established the first English convent on American soil at Port Tobacco, Maryland in 1790. The account of the voyage is printed in "The Carmelite Adventure" ed C FitzGerald, Baltimore, 1990. I have published a number of documents relating to the foundation and an introduction in "The English convents in Exile", Vol. 6, Pickering & Chatto, London, 2013. Information is also available on the Who Were the Nuns? website and database at Queen Mary University of London - wwtn.history.qmul.ac.uk. The microfilms of the manuscripts are at the State Archives in Annapolis: let me know if you need further details.

Hilletje van Olinda

(also called Hilletie or Illetie). She was a key interpreter for the Dutch and then the English in 17th c. New York. For Primary literature, see Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680.For secondary literature, see Daniel K. Richter, ìCultural Brokers and Intercultural Politics: New York-Iroquois Relations, 1664-1701,î Journal of American History, vol. 75, no. 1 (jun., 1988), 40-67; Tom Arne Midtr¯d, ìThe Flemish Bastard and the Former Indians: MÈtis and Identity in Seventeenth Century New York, American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 34, no. 1 (Winter 2010), pp. 83-108; Romney, New Netherland Connections

Ruth Marie Adams

early president of Wellesley College: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Wellesley_College

Knoll was a German woman who traveled throughout the Atlantic World while serving as a Moravian missionary. She deserves a dedicated Wikipedia page because her unique experience sheds light on the challenges of marriage and how Knoll sought to exercise her own agency within its constraints. Her life is thoroughly chronicled in Aaron Fogleman's recent book Two Troubled Souls, which is where I first read about her.

Magdalena Beulah Brockden

rocken is a West African woman who converted to Christianity after her interactions with Moravian missionaries in Pennsylvania. She deserves a dedicated Wikipedia page as an example of important member of a religious community whose life represents the promise of spiritual equality alongside injustice. Historian Katherine Faull has translated her Lebenslauf, which is available on her web site katiefaull.com. Faull also places Brockden's life in context in her book Moravian Women's Memoirs. Recently, Seth Moglen attempted to write a short biography of her life in a History of the Present article "Enslaved in the City on a Hill."

Salome Meurer

Meurer was a 16-year-old German Moravian young woman who traveled to North America with other Moravians in the 1760s. She deserves a dedicated Wikipedia page for her perspective as a female teenager. Although her full life is not well-chronicled, she wrote a diary of a 30-day journey from Pennsylvania through North Carolina in 1766. Her life is discussed briefly and her journal is printed in Aaron Fogleman's article "Women on the Trail in Colonial America"

Senauki

Senauki was a the wife of influential Creek leader Tomochichi. She was a member of a Creek delegation to England in 1734 and influenced negotiations between Creeks and early Georgia colonists. She is featured in the William Verelst painting “Audience Given by the Trustees of Georgia to a Delegation of Creek Indians”

Articles created/expanded/improved in student work during Spring 2016 with AnnMLittle

For more context, here's a link to Little's blog post about the process: Wikipedia in the classroom: check out these new bios of early American women! We may decide to continue working on some of the articles.

Outcomes

List any articles created and/or edited during this Wikistorm here: