Grandma Miriam lived through the Revolutionary Way, too, in New England. She married Uriah Richardson who was born in Grenwich, Massachusetts, and they lived together in Stafford, Connecticut. Miriam attended the Stafford Congregational Church, and a church record reads
"A child of Mrs. Uriah Richardson was baptized being offered by his Wife alone, he being of the Baptist denomination. May 6, 1754"
It looks as if Miriam and Uriah had only four children who survived to adulthood. When Uriah died, he willed Miriam a portion of the farm and the east end of the house, as well as "personal property" like towels, a sheet, pillowcases, a warming pan, Bible, and so on. His two living children and heirs of the two daughters who had died, also received bequests of land and personal property.
It's one thing to learn in history about 18th century women's rights and another to see first hand how your grandmother had to inherit the bedclothes she slept on and pans she cooked on, and that the church record had to point out that her husband was not involved in the baptism of his child.
Miriam was a daughter of Jacob and Dorthy Linde Green. Both families immigrated to Massachusetts from England in the seventeenth century. Miriam lived to be 84 years old and died in Stafford.
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