Hepzibah Munroe

1751 - 1829  (78 years)

• Name	Hepzibah Munroe
  Birth	3 Aug 1751	Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	4 Nov 1829	Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire   [2, 3, 5]
  Burial	Hillsborough Centre Cemetery, Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire   [2]
  Person ID	I37784	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of UKL
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2022

  
  

  Father	Nathan Munroe,   b. 11 Sep 1716, Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 1792, Carlisle, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Mercy Benjamin,   b. 2 Dec 1717, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 20 Nov 1785, Carlisle, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	23 Nov 1738	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F22220	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Oliver Wheeler,   b. 13 Nov 1748, Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 9 Apr 1833, Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	3 Mar 1773	Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Esther Wheeler,   b. 24 Mar 1778, Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire
  Family ID	F22213	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jun 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Called by The History of Hillsborough, New Hampshire (citation details below) "a sister of Thaddeus Monroe." Also spelled Hipsibah. Her Find a Grave page says: "By the time she died in 1829, aged 78, it was no longer stylish to bear quite so aggressively Old Testamentish a name as hers. Her stone, accordingly, calls her 'Hepizeth.' Even half a century earlier in 1776, as a young bride in her native Carlisle (then Billerica), she signed her name 'Hepzibeth'."

  
  

• Sources

  [S3431] Massachusetts, town clerk and town records, 1626-2001, on familysearch.org. [S6358] Find a Grave page for Hepzibah Munroe Wheeler. [S6360] The Monroe Book: Being the History of the Monroe Clan from its Origins in Scotland to Settlement in New England and Migration to the West, 1652-1850 and Beyond by Joan S. Guilford. 1993. [S2348] The Benjamin Family in America by Gloria Wall Bicha and Helen Benjamin Brown. 1977. [S1925] The History of Hillsborough, New Hampshire, 1735-1921, Volume Two, by George Waldo Brown. Manchester, New Hampshire: John B. Clarke Company, 1922.