Margaret Brent (1601-1671) is most renowned today for requesting a vote in the Maryland Assembly in an age when women, queens excepted, were not allowed direct participation in political life.
~Louis Green Carr
Links:
St. Mary's City Biography Margaret Brent http://www.stmaryscity.org/History/bio%20Margaret%20Brent.html Margaret Brent http://mdroots.thinkport.org/library/margaretbrent.asp Early America http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/1998/brent.html |