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m. 27 Sep 1770 Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States
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7 Jul 1783: "Esther Short, alias Esther Ephraim, an Indian or mulatto girl, at her examination stated that she was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Joshua Grafton who owned real estate there. When she was six-months-old, her mother took her to Woodstock and left her with the widow Mary Child, who later became the wife of Capt. Peter Tew of Woodstock, with whom she lived until about two months ago, when she came to Providence and lived in several families. She was then in her seventeenth year of her age." [Source: Rhode Island Roots, Warwick, RI: Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 1975–, (Online database, AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012), Providence Town Council Records, p 63] CT Church Rec Abstracts 1630-1920, Vol 132 Woodstock, p 127 References
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