8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Registration and refreshments

Opening Remarks

John C. Van Horne, Librarian, Library Company of Philadelphia

Cathy Matson, Professor of History, University of Delaware, and Director, Program in Early American Economy and Society

9:30-11:30 Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, San Jose State University
“She Said She did not Know Money”: Urban Women and Atlantic Markets in the Eighteenth Century

Serena Zabin, Carleton College
Women’s Trading Networks from London to the Corner Bar in Eighteenth-Century New York

Chair and Comment: Carole Shammas, University of Southern California

Marla Miller, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Last Mantuamaker: Craft Tradition and Commercial Change in Boston, 1740-1840

Mary Beth Sievens, State University of New York, Fredonia
“To assist me in the support of my family”: New England Women, Markets, and the Household Economy, 1790-1820

Chair and Comment: Stephanie Grauman Wolf, Senior Research Fellow, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Kristi Rutz-Robbins, California State University San Marcos
“By her Bill”: Women and the Local Economy in Albemarle, North Carolina, 1650-1729

Kathleen Fawver, California State University Dominguez Hills
Women in Planter-Households: The Organization of Labor in the Eighteenth-Century Northern Chesapeake

Chair and Comment: Jeanne Boydston, University of Wisconsin