Now on view at the New York Historical, “Revolutionary Women” spotlights figures with connections to the state, including a Jewish chocolatier, a Mohawk leader and a woman who disguised herself as a man to enlist in the Continental Army At the height of the American Revolution, Jewish merchant Rebecca Gomez stocked her Manhattan shop with chocolate that she proudly advertised as “warranted free from any sediments and pure.” The only woman in the world known to independently manufacture...