Elizabeth Peck Perkins (1735-1807) was an American shipping magnate.Elisabeth Williams Anthony Dexter,
Career women of America, 1776–1840
', 1950 She was the daughter of the fur merchant Thomas Handasyd Peck, wife of the merchant James Perkins (1733–1773) and mother of the

Boston Brahmin The Boston Brahmins are members of Boston's historic upper class. From the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, they were often associated with a cultivated New England accent, Harvard University, Anglicanism, and traditional Britis ...

Thomas Handasyd Perkins Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, also known as T. H. Perkins (December 15, 1764 – January 11, 1854), was an American merchant, slave trader, smuggler and philanthropist from a wealthy Boston Brahmin family. Starting with bequests from his grand ...

. She managed the shipping and merchant company of her late spouse, one of the leading companies of Boston, from 1773. During the

American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which Am ...

, she participated in shipping troops for the American ally France. In 1800, she was one of the co-founders and financiers of the Boston Female Asylum, the first institution founded by women in Boston, and functioned as its first manager and treasurer.

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