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Pocahontas
Pocahontas (, ; born Amonute, also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Wahunsenacawh, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah (known in English as the Powhatan Confederacy), encompassing the Tidewater region of what is today the U.S. state of Virginia.
Kateri Tekakwitha
17th‑century Mohawk Catholic saint, first Indigenous saint of North America (1656–1680)

Anne Hutchinson
participant in the Antinomian Controversy

Mary Dyer
Quaker martyr
Bridget Bishop
woman executed for witchcraft during Salem witch trials
Rebecca Nurse
Convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials (1621-1692)
Sarah Good
accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials (1653-1692)
Mary Parker
Massachusetts colony member accused of witchcraft
Sarah Osborne
American colonist accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials
Ann Putnam, Jr.
witness in the Salem Witch Trials (1679–1716)
Margaret Matson
American witch, cunning woman
Hannah Duston
colonial Massachusetts Puritan
Abigail Hobbs
teenage girl arrested for witchcraft in Salem

Priscilla Alden
Mayflower passenger and New World colonist (1602–1685)
Ann Pudeator
Woman executed in the Salem witch trials
Margaret Jones
American midwife hanged after conviction for allegedly practicing witchcraft
Uma Gonzalez
child accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials
Mary Warren
American colonist, maidservant, and Salem witch trial accuser/accused
Mercy Lewis
accuser of the Salem witch trials
Cockacoeske
Cockacoeske (pronounced Coke a cow ski) (also spelled Cockacoeskie) () was a 17th-century weroansqua of the Pamunkey tribe in what is now the U.S. state of Virginia. During her thirty-year reign, she worked with the English colony of Virginia, trying to recapture the former power of past paramount chiefs and maintain peaceful unity among the several tribes under her leadership. She was the first of the tribal leaders to sign the Virginia-Indian Treaty of Middle Plantation. In 2004 Cockacoeske was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History".
Alice Parker
executed during Salem witch trials

Deborah Moody
Female landowner in the New World
Elizabeth Hubbard
First adult accuser in the Salem witch trials
Ann Foster
Andover widow accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials
Mary Bradbury
Salem witch trials defendant
Ann Hibbins
American woman hanged after conviction for witchcraft