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The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty
Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse, the first woman to build her own lavish fortune in the New World, had the Midas touch when it came to trading everything from furs to slaves in seventeenth century colonial Manhattan, then called New Amsterdam.