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Colonial Period

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Abigail Adams

Ann Hennis Trotter Bailey

Penelope Barker

Martha Bratton

Margaret Brent

Elizabeth Burgin

Margaret Cochran Corbin

Lydia Barrington Darragh

Mary Katherine Goddard

Betsy Hager

Nancy Morgan Hart

Pocahontas

Sybil Ludington

Dolley Madison

Mary Lindley Murray

Esther de Berdt Reed

Deborah Sampson

Nanye-hi or Nancy Ward

Betty Zane

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