The widowed Martha Dandridge Curtis marries George Washington. Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral appears in London. Deborah Franklin dies. Thomas Paine publishes a magazine essay advocating women's rights. Connecticut burned by the British.
Soldiers rape several women.
Deborah Sampson, disguised as a man, enlists in the 4th Mass. Regiment as Robert Shurtleff. 1785 Nancy Ward, Beloved Woman of Chota, takes part in Treaty of Hopewell, the last time Cherekee a woman had an official role at such a negotiation. Sojourner Truth, a slave at birth but a women's rights and abolition activist later in life, born in Ulster County, New York. Hannah Webster Foster publishes The Coquette. Catharine Beecher born.