Dedication
TO
THE MEMORY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES
Whose blood runs in my veins
Whose spirit lives in my work
Epigraph
Elizabeth Morse, Joanna Hoar, Esther Mason, Deborah
Atherton, Sarah Wyeth, Anne Adams, Elizabeth
Browne, Hannah Phillips, Mary Clary, Silence
Heard, Judith Thurston, Patience Foster,
Martha Bullard, Barbara Sheppard,
Seaborn Wilson