Hello Readers!
We welcome you to our third blog post this year! We decided to base this post off a comment that one of our readers asked us.* Jen Manwell was wondering if we could tell our readers a little bit about Twilight’s parents, Ichabod and Mary, and if there was any evidence of their activity in Corinth/Bradford. There is little we know about Mary because there was nothing recorded on her, since she was a woman in the 1700s and only showed up in census records. We don’t even know her maiden name. We do know a little about Ichabod, though, due to an article called The Life of Ichabod Twilight and the Early Life of Alexander Twilight 1765-1821, by John M. Lovejoy. It gave us great insight and depth on Ichabod and allowed us to get a better idea on how Alexander was raised. Ichabod was born in July, 1765 in Boston, Massachusetts. In Hebrew, ‘Ichabod’ meant “the glory has departed”. He was given the last name Twilight, as we mentioned before, by his friends because his skin was between light and dark. When he was older he joined the army, and soon after got married to a woman named Mary. In 1791, the first child, Aaron Twilight was born. In 1793, the second child, Thomas Twilight was born and shortly after, the family moved to Bradford/Corinth, Vermont, where they quickly got themselves involved in the town’s community. In 1795 Alexander Twilight was born. When Alexander was eight years old, Ichabod went missing and left him to care for the household. Nobody knows what happened to Ichabod. *Again, please feel free to reach out and ask us any questions at [email protected], or in the comments below. Resources:
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Joan Azulay
10/17/2018 03:14:12 pm
Great information, thank you for your research.
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AuthorsGabrielle and Esme have been researching Twilight thoroughly for three years. They started off working on their Vermont History presentation and eventually ended up, more recently, presenting at Boston History Camp in Boston, Mass. Archives
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