Stilson Family Vincent and Grace Part 2

When last we left you agnus was born, and Vincent was adding to the home.  More room would be needed for children.  He had finished a loft area, where he and his wife would sleep, and was constructing a room where the children would sleep as they grew. 
    We learned that Milford was famous as a Mill Town.  from the early 1640' to as late as the 1700's.  Though the principal planters were there to try the different growting of plants, and what would grow the best in the area.  Many had or were given small plots of land about 5 acres.   

The towns as they grew with their dirt roads, and homes of those that worked the lands.  Soon showed growth in the new lands of civilizations.  Lands haveing been bought from the Indians of the area.  This pic shows a small community of town plots.  Where shoemakers, traders, cloth makers, and others may have lived rather than on the farms.  Though each family had to be a Jack of all trades.  Cutting their own timber, building their own homes, and makeing their own tools.  Not including the fencing and barns that might be needed for them to survive the harsh winters.    We learned that Vincent was possibly a shoe maker.  Which gave him a bit of an edge to his farming.  He made shoes for others and traded for what they were unable to make or craft on their own.
    As we had left Agnus had become a toddler.  Now remember she should have been 3rd born.  But sims kinda had a mind of its own, no matter how many apples were eaten.  And as the times of the family went on, with their harsh winters, and lovely summers.  The family Grew. 

Mary loved being outdoors, and with the children, she taught them to walk, talk, and trained them in many things.  She worked hard as a wife and mother, helping in the gardens, with the milking, even to bedding down the horses for evenings.  Agnus also learned that she loved being outdoors, the warmer the better, for the cold winter months kept the family cooped inside their tiny log cabin.

   It was soon learned that she was with child again.  A 2nd to be born. 

Vincent Jr. was born about 1656.  The home had enlarged and the children doing well.  Times flew though even harsh and wild as they were.  Grace soon learns shes expecting another child.  Though during these times agnus became a child:

and vincent a toddler.  Grace flowed about the home, cleaning, cooking sometimes all day, makeing of the candles, with the help of her daughter who now could help more around the home.  Teacher her toddler son the things a toddler should know.  And carrying her 3rd child.

Though on the night that James was to be born, came the troubles Grace started to have in her life.  No longer was she quick on her feet, but she was quick with her mouth. 

James was the 2nd born but in my sims the 3rd.  James was born about1658.  And it was now that the real trouble started showing.    Grace was ill, though she wanted no one to know, thus it made her shout, yell and sometimes scream in anger.  As the children grew with age, Grace became pregnate a 4th time. 
      It is not known how or in what way Grace died.  But we will depict it as a birthing problem or an illness.
As Grace went threw her 4th pregnacy she often yelled at vincent though all he wanted was to know what was wrong.

Often times we would find her sick, and other times we would find her screaming.

Vincent crazy with worry, could get no answers from his wife.  He would find her in bed, or walking to far from the farm.  Even as his daughter tried to talk to her mom, she would yell at the children.  It was a crazy time, And Vincent pored himself into farm work.

If it was not in the gardening, it was in the training of the horses, the milking of the cows, the cutting down of timbers.  Life though harsh was also filled with bits of fun here and there.  Barn raisings, dances, and even picnics near the rivers that were to harsh to cross. 

As one day the farm was wild with crazyness.  Wild horses were crossing the property.  Everyone tried to stay out of their way, but all wanted to watch them.  Grace though hid in her room, not wishing to see, and not wanting to be outside.  The baby was comeing and she would stay away from the glories that were on their property that day.  Their 4th child being born, was Mary she was born about 1706.  When the wild horses left the property all ran to see the commotion in the home.  A baby screaming, only to find Grace was no longer with them.  Grace had passed giving child birth.

As Vincent morned his wife, he also came to realizations that he was now a father of 4, and no one was there to help him with these children.  He went to town one day leaving his teen daughter of barely 12 to help take care of the little ones.  he went looking to find a new wife. Someone to help raise his children and help around the farm.  Someone young and able.  Someone with whom he hoped he could spend his life with.

Though all the happenings, of life in colonial times, most of this is fictious.  Though Vincent did marry a Grace, and had the following 4 children. 1. Vincent born around 1656, 2. James born around 1658, Agnes born between 1660 and 1665, and Mary born about 1668. 
They did live in Milford, Ct.  He was a shoe maker, and a farmer/jack of all trades.  He did own a small plot of land, and from there we only know what history shows in possibles of life, and love.

Come again now and see the 2nd part of Vincents life, with a new wife.