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Born on September 28, 1769, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Bathsheba Rouse is recognized as the first woman to teach in the Northwest Territory. She arrived in the region with other pioneers in 1788, and the following year the Belpre community employed her to teach young children in the Farmers' Castle near the Ohio River. Instruction in reading, writing, and sewing was reserved for girls, while boys received lessons in reading, writing, and arithmetic. She taught in Belpre for several terms before marrying Richard Greene and settling at nearby Marietta. Their descendants attained civic prominence in Washington County for generations. Bathsheba Rouse Greene died on February 27, 1843, at the age of seventy-three and is buried alongside her husband in Marietta's Mound Cemetery.
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