🩷 Your Daily Dose of Women’s History… On October 30, 1756, Lydia Chapin Taft voted in a public town meeting in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, on whether to fund the French and Indian War. Historians describe her as the first white woman known to vote in what would become the United States. It was a narrow local exception. She voted as a proxy for her late husband because of the family’s property and taxes. It did not create broad voting rights for women. Context matters. The National Park Service not