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Eng^d by J.C. Buttre.
MARTHA WASHINGTON.,
FROM STUART'S PICTURE

SIXTEENTH THOUSAND.

NOBLE DEEDS
OF
AMERICAN WOMEN;

WITH
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF SOME OF THE MORE PROMINENT.

EDITED BY

J. CLEMENT.,

WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY

MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY.

Such examples should be set before them as patterns for their daily imitation.

NEW EDITION REVISED.

NEW YORK:
MILLER, ORTON & CO.,
25 Park Row.

1857.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by

GEO. H. DERBY & Co.,

In the Clerk's Office of the Northern District of New York.

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Editor's Preface.

This work was suggested by one of asimilar character, entitled "Noble Deedsof Woman," an English work, which containsbut three references to AmericanWomen, two of which are of but verylittle importance. Only one article is thesame in both works, and that is the letterwritten by Mrs. Sigourney to the womenof Greece, in 1828,in behalf of the ladiesof Hartford.

This failure to dojustice to Americanwomen, may havebeen an oversight; bethat as it may, a workof the kind here presented,seemed to beneeded, and we regretthat its preparationhad not been assignedto an abler pen. Multitudesof works havebeen consulted, andsuch anecdotes gleanedas it is thought will[vi]have a salutary influence on the mind and heart. Shouldthe records of female courage and virtue herein presentedto the daughters of the land, encourage, even in the slightestdegree, a laudable spirit of emulation, our humble laborswill not have been put forth in vain.

Facts are more sublime than fictions; and Americanwomen have actually performed all the good, and grand,and glorious deeds which the honest and judicious novelistdares ascribe to the female sex; hence we have found nooccasion, in striving to make this work interesting, to deviatefrom the path of historical truth.

The sources whence our materials have been derived, arelargely indicated in the body of the work. Possibly, however,we may have failed, in some instances, to indicate ourindebtedness to historians and biographers where such referencewas justly demanded; suffice it to say, therefore, oncefor all, that, although something like two hundred of thesepages are in our own language, we deserve but little creditfor originality, and would prefer to be regarded as an unpretendingcompiler, rather than as an aspirant to the title ofauthor.

NOTE TO THE REVISED EDITION.

The fact that eight thousand copies of this work have been publishe

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