September 22, 1656
The Jury of Eleven Women at Patuxent
The acquittal of Judith Catchpole by Maryland's all-female jury on September 22, 1656
An indentured maidservant faced hanging on the word of a dead man who claimed she'd murdered her newborn. To decide her fate, a Maryland court did something no colony had done before — it handed the verdict to a jury of women.
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