Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf

[1] She married minister, physician, and apothecary Daniel Greenleaf (a Harvard graduate) in 1699.

[4] In 1727, Elizabeth moved to Boston to open an apothecary shop.

Though this was a role which had been exclusively performed by men, Massachusetts did not have any laws in place to prevent women from practicing.

[4] This made her the only woman among the 32 apothecaries working in New England at the time.

[3] Later in 1727, Daniel moved to Boston to join her after resigning his post as pastor of the Congregational Church in Yarmouth.