Individual Details

Hannah & Priscilla "boath Born at one Birth"

Hannah Paul Wadsworth Meriam was the child of Ebenezer Paul (1680-1737) and his wife Hannah Atherton Paul (1679/80-1735). She and her twin sister Priscilla were the youngest of six children in the family. On May 8, 1740 Hannah married David Wadsworth (1719/20-1749) in Milton, Norfolk Co., MA. The couple had four children: David (b. 1741/42), Sarah (b. 1743), Ebenezer (b. 1745), and Samuel (b. 1747). In the mid-1740s the family moved from Milton to Grafton in Worcester Co., MA. David Wadsworth died in 1749. On December 26 1754 Hannah married Joseph Meriam (1709-1797), a widower of Grafton. She and Joseph had one child: Anna (b. 1758).

Hannah is buried Old Oak Street Burial Ground, Grafton, Worcestor Co, MA
Inscription:
In memory of
Mrs. Hannah Meriam
wife of Deacon Joseph Meriam
who died August 30th 1794
Aetatis 77.
Blessed are the dead
That die in the Lord.

Birth

17 May 1718

Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Father	Ebenezer Paul (1680 - 1737)
Mother	Hannah Atherton (1679 - 1735)
Sibling	Mary Paul (1704 - 1762)
Sibling	Ebenezer Paul Jr (1706 - 1735)
Sibling	Elizabeth Paul (1710 - )
Sibling	SARAH Paul (1714 - )
Sibling	Priscilla Paul (1718 - )