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Figures 1. Genealogical tree of the Bailey and Steele families. Created by the author. 3 2. Lydia Bailey, Map Memoranda Book. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Am 9065, v. 4, 15–16. 10 3. Bailey’s Rittenhouse almanac, for the year of our Lord 1810 . . . calculated by Abraham Shoemaker (Philadelphia: Lydia R. Bailey, printer, [1809]). The Library Company of Philadelphia, Am 1809 Bai [63948.D]. 13 4. “Proposal by Lydia R. Bailey, of Philadelphia, for publishing by subscription, an elegant edition of Freneau’s Poems, written chiefly during the American Revolution,” Kline’s Carlisle Weekly Gazette, 1809. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. 18 5. Lydia Bailey to Mathew Carey, March 1809. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Lea and Febiger Records, box 65, folder 3. 20 6. Invoice from Lydia Bailey to John Steele, March 1823. Collection of Lisa Unger Baskin. 23 7. [Thomas Brainerd], “Old Pine Street Church” ([Philadelphia]: L. R. Bailey, pr., [1848?]). The Library Company of Philadelphia, Am 1848 Brainerd 14070Q. 26 8. Philip Morin Freneau, Poems written and published during the American Revolutionary War . . . the third edition, in two volumes . . . Philadelphia: From the press of Lydia R. Bailey, 1809. The Library Company of Philadelphia, Am 1809 Fre [Log 1343.D]. 29 9. “Notice to creditors.” The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Amb 785. 31 10. Lydia Bailey, Journal. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Am 9065,v. 1, 26. 267 ...

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