In about 1781, Elisha married Nancy Parker. Nancy was born in the early 1760s.[1] There are two different sets of parents listed on new FamilySearch for Nancy, but I have found no information to distinguish which set of parents listed is actually hers. Nancy would have grown up in the same atmosphere as Elisha with the severely separated wealth classes in a county just changing from frontier life to more settled homesteads.
Although I am not sure what class Nancy would have fit in, I picture her among the more humble class. Life was certainly quite colorful for that group of people. Though it may be hard to picture now, days in a mid-eighteenth century farming community started with the rising of the sun and ended with its setting (unless someone planned a social gathering). “There has come down to us stories of these early parties with their stringed instruments and their merry dancing. . .” where there would be drinking for the men, sewing and gossiping for the women, dancing for the young people, and playing games for the children.[2]
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