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Miriam made her mark on two papers in her father's estate file. "Miriam Bartlet her mark" was, for the one shown above, probably written by her brother-in-law Jonas Bartlet, who was a witness to the same document, given the similarity in handwriting.

Children of Miriam How and Jotham Bartlet:1

i. Antipas, b. 2 March 1746
ii. Lucy, b. 8 October 1747
iii. Ezekial, b. 18 February 1750
iv. Abraham, b. 27 February 1754

vital records sources: Her birth is in Vital records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, MA: Franklin P. Rice, 1908), 104. Her death in Northborough (not Marlborough) is in Daniel Wait Howe, Gilman Bigelow Howe, Howe Genealogies, etc. (Boston, MA: 1929), 31. This work doesn't have citations. Her death isn't in any published vital records.

1. Vital Records of Westborough, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, MA: 1903), 13-14.