Person talk:Sarah Attwood (1)

[7 February 2013]

VI. SARAH ATWOOD, born April 29, (Family Bible, Apr. 28,) 1768, Boston, Mass., daughter of Nathaniel Atwood, Jr. Wife of John Boonen Graves, Esq.; married July 20, 1788, was left an orphan at the age of 5 years; placed under the guardianship of Samuel Doggett, or, at least, was cared for by him as administrator of her father's estate. The accounts show that, in accord with the expressed wish of her father in his will, she began her schooling in October, 1773, and seems to have had good care until for some reason not discovered, about 1780, when she was 12 years old, she was placed under the guardianship of Samuel Paine, having passed through the siege of Boston, though it is not certain that she remained in Boston all of that time. His accounts show the families with which she was boarded, her expenses for clothing, etc.; her two trips to Newbury, her schooling and dancing lessons; and, after the death of Samuel Doggett, his action against Doggett's executors, for money and effects belonging to Sarah Atwood and received judgment for 409 pounds 10 shillings 1 penny, to satisfy which there was set off a tract of land in Bowdoinham, County Lincoln, (now in Maine) containing 279 acres. In 1785, on his petition to be allowed to sell this property, the Court granted the petition on the 12th day of March, 1785, when his final account was rendered. This accounts for Sarah Atwood to within a trifle over three years of her marriage. The following account from a local newspaper of the death of Capt. Nathan Attwood and his wife, is given here to show the--henk 09:23, 7 February 2013 (EST)