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" Great numbers of women, who seemed to be the beasts of burden, having bushel baskets on their backs, by which they were bent double. The contents seemed to be pots and kettles, various sorts of furniture, children peeping through gridirons and other utensils.... "
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society - Página 451
por Massachusetts Historical Society - 1925
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Beside Old Hearth-stones

Abram English Brown - 1897 - 422 páginas
...double. The contents seemed to be pots and kettles, various sorts of furniture, children peeping through gridirons and other utensils, some very young infants who were born on the road. The women were bare-footed, and clothed in dirty rags. Such effluvia filled the air while they were passing,...
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The Granite Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, History and State ..., Volumen60

Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1928 - 734 páginas
...contents seemed to be pots and kettles and various sorts of furniture, — children peering through gridirons and other utensils, — some very young infants who were born on the road, — the women barefooted and clothed in rags, — such effluvia filled the air while they were passing that, had...
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Women, Militarism, and War: Essays in History, Politics, and Social Theory

Jean Bethke Elshtain, Sheila Tobias - 1990 - 292 páginas
...of burthen, having a bushel basket on their back by which they were bent double, the contents seemed to be Pots and Kettles, various sorts of Furniture,...very young Infants who were born on the road, the women's bare feet clothed in dirty raggs, such effluvia filled the air while they were passing, had...
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Founding Mothers: Women of America in the Revolutionary Era

Linda Grant De Pauw - 1975 - 244 páginas
...of burden, having a bushel basket on their back, by which they were bent double, the contents deemed to be Pots and Kettles, various sorts of Furniture,...infants who were born on the road, the women bare feet, cloathed in dirty rags, such effluvia filld the air while they were passing, had they not been smoaking...
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While the Women Only Wept: Loyalist Refugee Women in Eastern Ontario

Janice Potter-MacKinnon - 1995 - 220 páginas
...burthen, having a bushel basket on their back, by which they were bent double, the contents seemed to be Pots and Kettles, various sorts of Furniture,...Infants who were born on the road, the women bare feet, cloathed in dirty rags, such effluvia filld the air while they were passing, had they not been smoaking...
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Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution

Karen Zeinert - 1996 - 104 páginas
...they were bent double, the contents deemed to be Pots and Kettles, various sorts of furniture . . . some very young infants who were born on the road, the women [barefoot], clothed in dirty rags."4 British and Hessian camp followers could remain in the colonies...
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Revisioning the British Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Essays from Twenty ...

William G. Shade - 1998 - 314 páginas
...described the women who accompanied Burgoyne's surrendered army, struggling through Cambridge in 1777: "great numbers of women, who seemd to be the beasts...on the road, the women bare feet, cloathd in dirty rags . . . ."" Susannah Rowson's Charlotte Temple, at the end of her rope, is bitterly advised to "go...
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The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society

Harry M. Ward - 1999 - 324 páginas
...burthen, having a bushel basket on their back, by which they were bent double, the contents seemed to be Pots and Kettles, various sorts of Furniture,...Infants who were born on the road, the women bare feet, cloathed in dirty rags, such effluvia filld the air while they were passing, had they not been smoaking...
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Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present

Linda Grant De Pauw - 2000 - 440 páginas
...of burden, having a bushel basket on their back, by which they were bent double, the contents deemed to be Pots and Kettles, various sorts of Furniture,...infants who were born on the road, the women bare feet, cloathed in dirty rags, such effluvia filld the air while they were passing, had they not been smoaking...
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Washington's Crossing

David Hackett Fischer - 2006 - 576 páginas
...burthen, having a bushel basket on their back, by which they were bent double, the contents seemed to be pots and kettles, various sorts of furniture,...children peeping thro' gridirons and other utensils." Like the men they soldiered with, some women were heroes and some were criminals. Many helped others,...
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