Times had been moveing since Vincents Death. His wife, with an old friend. A daughter that is married, and moses becomes a Young Adult. The family had many things happen after Vincents death.
The Hubbles come over for a visit, they have a question for Mary (daughter of vincent) and of course Samuel Couch comes to talk to Mary Stilson(vincents wife) about becomeing his wife, and tells her of things he knows the boys did or will do.
Samuel tells Mary how sad he feels that her father passed away, but that he had come with a reason. He wanted her to marry him.
He gives her the flowers he brought her, and tells her that marrying him, will bring prosper to her life. That he and his father were in business together, and they did not have to farm for a living.
He then purposes to her, and the ring he got for her shows truth in his words. She accepted. Their marriage was to be held in a few weeks. Both excited and both a bit worried. Family history, never tells us much about them, after they were married, other than they were married. We know not if they had any children, or exactly where they lived other than starting out in Millford, CT.
The weeks flew by, the preperations for the marriage, being small and only of family, a judge, and a few friends.
As everyone gathered for the marriage, Samuel and Mary were married. Meet Mr. and Mrs. Hubble. They soon moved in with his parents, since he it seem'd was an only child and would inherit the family home. Though as mentioned not alot is known about her life, or even if she ever had children.
The weeks seem'd to fly by, as mary and Samuel Couch were getting to an understanding in what they were doing, when they would Mary and that She and some children left would live in his home. he was a newspaper man, he wrote articles for the paper. He did not farm, and had the money to pay for just about anything they wanted. Of course that did not make life in those time easy. The indians still were going nuts, and the french from canada were still buying slaves.
Moses haveing been old enough said he would not live with them and went about selling the family farm, that was stated in the will when his father passed. he had a girl in mind for his wife, and was planning on asking her when all things were settled.
With Samuel haveing talked all things out with Mary, they were soon packed and on their way to his home. Mary we know nothing of after her marriage to Samuel Couch.
And with this Moses is our heir and 2nd generation of the Stilson line. With his comeing of age our story finds an end of generation 1.
With all things said and done, the fun of writing about this family and the hard things to research. We leave generation `1 behind and head into Generation 2 and Moses with his wife, and their many children, to lead us down a trail of what life was through the early 1700's.
Thanks for reading, leave your comments, and hopefully will see u again when generation 2 gets going, with the life of Moses Stilson.
I thought Samuel's proposal to Mary was very sweet. Although it's interesting that people in those days seememd to marry more for convenience than love. It seemed more like a business decision.
ReplyDeleteSo is Moses Samuel and Mary's son?
no moses is Vincents and marys son, sorry if that was confuseing, samuel was who married his sister, mary. And alot of times back then marriage was for convience rather than love, though some were love as well. Some were even told who they would marry, not just anyone but arranged.
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