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Anna Thornton
Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton (1775?-1865) was a prominent Washington, D.C., socialite, diarist, and the wife of architect William Thornton, who designed the first United States Capitol building. She rubbed shoulders with figures such as George Washington and Dolley Madison.
==Life==
Anna Maria was probably born in England and emigrated at a young age along with her mother, Ann Brodeau, who moved to Philadelphia and set up a schoolhouse by 1780.〔(the Brodeaus appear in the 1780 census)〕 In 1790, at the age of 16, Anna Maria married William Thornton, age 31 years. Unlike her husband, Anna Maria was not a Quaker, so William was expelled from the Society of Friends.〔(Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton, account of her husband's life, 1828, William Thornton Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.)〕 William Thornton came from a slaveholding family based on the island of Tortola, and after he died in 1828, though his will seemed to grant freedom to his slaves, his wife and mother-in-law continued to reside with slaves in their Washington, D.C. home.〔William Thornton will, Washington, D.C.〕
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