This talk will examine the lives of women in the Neutral Zone more broadly as well as specific stories of individual women including Mary Philipse Morris and Elizabeth Williams Rutgers Philipse, Ann Fisher Miller, Grace Isaacs Babcock, and Black Loyalists such as Eleanor Fleming and Lydia Tompkins.
Morris-Jumel Mansion Virtual Parlor Chat: Food, Hunger, Scarcity and General Washington’s Continental Army. What did the soldiers of the Continental Army eat to fuel their fight for independence? What about the officers or General George Washington? Food insecurity was a monumental challenge faced by all those involved in the American Revolution. rom soldier's rations to George Washington's war time birthday celebrations, learn about the culinary history of the American Revolution.
