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      • Barbara Elaine Camara Passmore
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      • Cate
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      • Catherine Gomes Snell
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      • Charlotte Beebe Wilbour
      • Claire Johnson
      • Clara Jessie Ballinger Peckham
      • Comfort Taylor
      • Connie Buben
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      • Corinna Durfee Ramos
      • Cynthia Elaine French Parente
      • Damaris “Dicie” Sayre Atwater
      • Deborah Bodington
      • Deborah Magnuski McCrave
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      • Deborah Taber Manchester
      • Deborah Taylor Brownell
      • Diane MacGregor
      • Dianne A. Tripp Booth
      • Dora Johnson Manton
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      • Dorothy “Dorrie” Brownell Everett Nichols
      • Dorothy Bone Warren
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      • Dorothy Dixon Clark Snow
      • Dorothy E. McGill McKinnon
      • Druselar
      • E. Atwater Byers – Nunnie Byers
      • E. Hope Freeman Hudner
      • Edith Lucy Ann Elizabeth Wilkie Silvia O’Keefe
      • Edith Manchester Peckham
      • Edith Pierce Wordell
      • Edith Russell Church Burchard
      • Edna Hambly Brown
      • Eleanor Beatrice King Bixby
      • Eleanor Gray Rosinha
      • Eleanor Pauline Flores Simons
      • Elinor Gavin
      • Elisabeth “Bette” Howdee
      • Eliza Bone Sylvia Pennie
      • Elizabeth “Bessie” Amelia Gray
      • Elizabeth “Betty” Alden Pabodie
      • Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bixby
      • Elizabeth Ann Donohue
      • Elizabeth Brayton Dawson
      • Elizabeth Head
      • Elizabeth Jane Peckham
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      • Elizabeth Mortimer Palmer
      • Elizabeth Perry King Woodruff
      • Elizabeth Sisson Brightman
      • Elizabeth Thomas Collins
      • Elizabeth Watters Wordell
      • Ellen Bednarczyk
      • Ellen Burchard
      • Elsa Cory
      • Elsie Hathaway
      • Elsie Hosking Straight
      • Elsye Julia Johnson
      • Emma D. King
      • Emma Perry Waite
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      • Eugenia “Genie” Getchell Rawson
      • Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield
      • Evelyn Brayton
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      • Fannie DeWolfe Cooke
      • Ferol Johnson Peckham
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      • Florence Jean Letourneau
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      • Florence Kelley Worgan
      • Florence Luella Jewell Shurtleff
      • Frances E. Wildes Wilber
      • Frances Ellen Palmer Richmond
      • Frances Henrietta Gifford
      • Frances McCreesh Fennessey
      • Frances Sylvia Gracia
      • Frances Taber Longfield
      • Gail Greene
      • Galen V. Snow
      • Gertrude Borden Magnuski
      • Gladys Mabel Lawton Wordell
      • Grace Bourne Almy
      • Grace L. Simmons
      • Grace Simmons McKivergan
      • Grace Taylor Armstrong
      • Hannah Borden Sowle Peckham
      • Hannah Wilbor
      • Hannah Wood Peck
      • Harriet James Peckham Wordell
      • Harriet Taylor Simmons
      • Hattie Cook Shurtleff
      • Hattie Louise Cook Simmons
      • Heather Bixby Fitzgerald
      • Heather Lynn Gomez Aubuchon
      • Helen Almy Brownell
      • Helen Deborah Kaye Gomez Buckley
      • Helen Elizabeth Shurtleff Collins
      • Helen S. Peckham
      • Helen Thomas Cooke Richmond
      • Helen West
      • Henrietta Brownell Jewell
      • Henriette Elizabeth “Lily” von Trapp Derbyshire Clark
      • Henriette Lajoie von Trapp
      • Hilda Marguerite Perry Wildes
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      • Hope FitzGerald Taylor
      • Ida M. Bixby Elwell
      • Ida Pearce Wilbur Smith
      • Indian Servant Maid Valued At at £10
      • Inez Cornell Wilkie
      • Irene Wilbur
      • Isabella Taylor Bone
      • Jane
      • Jane Carrott Boardman
      • Jane Durfee Camara
      • Jane L. Camara Thurston
      • Jane Peckham Cabot
      • Jane Whitaker Westwater
      • Janet Blanche Goodwin Wilber
      • Janet Pond Goodman
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      • Janice Cole Clark
      • Janice Turcotte Gomez
      • Jeanne Morse Bauman
      • Jenna Peterson-Magnuski
      • Jennie Furbush
      • Jessie Bross Lloyd
      • Jessie Lloyd O’Connor
      • Joanne Jean Couto
      • Jodie Harrop Davoll
      • Johanna Wislocki Wilkinson McKenzie
      • Josephine Field Wilbur
      • Josephine Simmons Manchester
      • Josie Richmond Arkins
      • Judith Ann Waite Gomez
      • Judith Wait Head
      • Judith Worthen
      • Julia Francis Pierce
      • Julianna “Julie” Flores Rocha
      • Karen Corrigan
      • Karen Rosinha Daniels-Ambrifi
      • Karla Moran
      • Kate Hilliard
      • Katherine B. McMahon
      • Katherine Schmidt
      • Kathleen O’Brien Neitzey
      • Krystal Ferreira Todd
      • Laura Winter Dean
      • Leslie Deschene
      • Lilla White Woodhouse
      • Lillian A. Davoll
      • Lillian Margaret Shepard Rosa
      • Lillian Margaret Shepard Rosa
      • Lillian Medeiros Marrow
      • Lois Brown Almy
      • Lois Wilbor
      • Lois Wilbur Sylvia
      • Lois Wilcox
      • Lora Elkinton MacFall
      • Louise A. Simmons
      • Lucy Collins
      • Luse
      • Lydia Brayton
      • Lydia Gray Wilbor
      • Lydia Shaw Manchester
      • Mabel Gray Wordell Bixby
      • Mahala Gray
      • Maple Lea Vercher Gifford
      • Margaret “Peg” Oliveira
      • Margaret Cockaway
      • Margaret Johnson
      • Margaret Peckham Briggs
      • Margery Phinney
      • Maria C. Agnello Manchester
      • Maria Wordell Petty
      • Marian Perreira da Estrella Camara
      • Marion Barrows Wilbur Gifford
      • Marion Gray Hart
      • Marjory Gomez O'Toole
      • Marjory Gomez O'Toole – Draft
      • Martha Dean Clemmens Powell
      • Martha Gifford Moniz
      • Mary “Molly” Brownell Levey
      • Mary Cecilia Flores
      • Mary Cissel Suttell
      • Mary Constance Moniz Lewis
      • Mary Elizabeth Grinnell Post
      • Mary Elizabeth Sousa Miller
      • Mary Ellen “Ella” Gillis Barry
      • Mary Frances
      • Mary Jane Barry Peckham
      • Mary Madeline Sylvia Chase
      • Mary Priscilla White Taylor
      • Mary Waring Moran
      • Mary Wilber Castino
      • Maureen Hayden Pieri
      • Maureen McKinnon Rego
      • Mehitable Dye, The Elder
      • Mehitable Dye, The Younger
      • Melissa Northrup Medeiros
      • Mercy
      • Mercy Church Brownell
      • Mercy Rouse Stevens
      • Mildred Wordell Seabury
      • Millicent Hart Waite
      • Miriam Weest Scott
      • Molly Durant Hekking
      • Molly Luce Burroughs
      • Monette Blanchard
      • Moselle Gray
      • Myra K. Davis
      • Myrtle Goss Eddy
      • Nan Haffenreffer
      • Nancy Arruda Oliveira
      • Nancy Clark
      • Nancy L. Pontes
      • Nancy Wilder
      • Natalie Rego Darling
      • Nettie Gratz Avila
      • Nina Blades
      • Nina Lenzner Evison
      • Norma Ann Wordell Elwell
      • Online Auction – July 3 – 6
      • Patricia McKinnon Goulart
      • Pearl L. Wilbour Hatton
      • Polly Squire Gardner
      • Project Details
      • Prudence Wilbour
      • Quiteria DeAlamo Rocha Gomes
      • Rebecca Bell Martin
      • Rebecca Reid Pattison
      • Rebecca Spencer
      • Rebecca W. Tripp
      • Rebekah
      • Rheba Sherman Peckham
      • Rhoda Marie Manchester
      • Rhonda Antonsen Magnuski
      • Rosemary Moore Bowen
      • Ruth Hart Leary
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      • Sabina Gray Lawton
      • Sadie “Sally” V. Farrissey Murphy
      • Sandra Marie Giguere Waite
      • Sarah
      • Sarah Bullock Desjardins
      • Sarah Cornell Butts Cole
      • Sarah Elizabeth “Lizzie” Manchester
      • Sarah Jehu
      • Sarah Ned
      • Sarah Pabodie
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      • Sarah Soule Wilbour
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      • Sidney Lockwood Tynan
      • Sophie Wheeler
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      • Sue Brayton McGoff
      • Sue Clark Stowell
      • Sue Codamonk
      • Sue Wise Walker
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      • Susan Fennessey Tullson
      • Susan H. Allen Brownell
      • Susan Peckham
      • Susan Richard Sisson
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      • Temperance Turner Manley
      • Truong Thi “Rose” Phuong Mason
      • Unidentified Women
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      • Venetta Shurtleff Elwell
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      • Virginia “Jinny” Moore
      • Virginia Bullock Watt
      • Virginia Field Morrissey
      • Virginia Rogers
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      • Vivian Amos Belko
      • Wendy Zens
    • Out of Print Pamphlets & Books
      • Early Portuguese Settlers in Little Compton, Rhode Island (PDF)
      • Notes on Little Compton (PDF)
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