Bordentown - Patience Lovell Wright House
N 40° 08.916 W 074° 42.830
18T E 524374 N 4444289
Home of Patience Lovell Wright
Waymark Code: WM8G3
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 03/06/2006
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1769 – the death of the husband of Patience Wright (later America's first native-born sculptor). To make a living she molded faces out of putty, bread dough, and wax, making portraits in tinted wax. 1770s &
1780s -- some of the buildings in the downtown included Hoagland's Tavern (owned by Col. Oakey Hoagland); the Francis Hopkinson House; the home of Col. Joseph Borden; and the Patience Wright House.
By 1772 – Patience Wright she traveled to London where became a sensation, bolstered by her more crass American behavior and speech.