Women in Colonial New Jersey

GRADES 9 THROUGH 12

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women
Women's Project of New Jersey. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Rachel Lovell Wells, pp. 38-39.
Esther Edwards Burr, pp. 12-13.
Hannah Ogden Caldwell, pp. 13-14.
Jemima Condict Harrison, pp. 23-24.

"Settlers and Founders"
(Home and Hearth, Quaker Women, Home Front and Battle Front, Voting in New Jersey), pp. 9-24.
In New Jersey Women: A History of Their Status, Roles, and Images
Carmela Ascolese Karnoutsos. New Jersey History Series
Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1997.

Documents

Words That Make New Jersey History
Edited by Howard L. Green. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Excerpts from the Journal of Esther Edwards Burr (1754-57), pp. 39-4.

Deed of Land Purchased by Blandina Kiersted Bayard from Hackensack Indians, 1700.
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_1/Bayard.htm

"An Invitation Ode to a Young Lady in New York From Her Friend in the Country,"
Annis Boudinot Stockton, New Brunswick, 1753.
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_1/stockton2002.htm

Runaway Wives, 1760.
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_1/runawaywives.htm

Internet Sites

New Jersey History Partnership Project
www.nj-history.org
Click on "Enter"
Click on "American Revolution"
Click on "Women"

New Jersey Women's History
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/