Deborah Moody
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Deborah Moody
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Deborah, Lady Moody is notable as the founder of Gravesend, Brooklyn, and is the only woman known to have started a village in colonial America. She was the first known female landowner in the New World. As a wealthy titled woman, she had unusual influence in New Netherland, where she was respected. In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where she had first settled after leaving England because of persecution as an Anabaptist, she had been described by contemporaries as "a dangerous woman" and chose e
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Moody
date created:
2006-08-09T07:41:26Z
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2024-08-28T19:42:54Z
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