From the July 2, 2021, Vita Brevis site "July 4 and My Family" by Scott C. Steward.
He was looking around for something to write about things happening to his family on or around July 4.
"On my father's side, my great-great-great-great grandfather Abel Willard Atherton was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts on the first anniversary of Independence Day: July 4, 1777.
"Willard Atherton was in Portland, Maine to marry the widowed Margaret Duncan in 1809, and he died in Castine, Maine in 1821. His daughter, my ancestor Eliza Robinson Atherton, married Samuel Henry Foster of Boston in Portland in 1830; they later lived in New York...."
Footnote: Colonel Abel Willard Atherton (1777-1821) married Margaret (Weeks) Duncan in 1809.
--Brock-Perry
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