Working for the Revolution: Connecticut’s Patriot Women

During the American Revolution, when a merchant was holding back a supply of sugar that should have gone to the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army, 20 women formed what was termed “an infantry,” and stormed the merchant’s  warehouse. They got the sugar with no interference from the law. Historian and publisher Dr. Katherine Hermes will present this and other fascinating histories of women in the Revolution during, “Working for the Revolution: Connecticut’s Patriot Women” at the New Haven Museum (NHM), on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, at 6 p.m. Register for the free NH250 event here.

“Working for the Revolution: Patriot Women’s Lives During the War” will explore how women contributed to the American Revolutionary effort politically, economically, intellectually, and even militarily. Using original sources including newspapers, court records, letters, and pension records, Hermes will show how Indigenous, Anglo-European, and African-descended women all helped to further the Patriot cause.