Mehitable Sullivan Amory
(1772-1847)
BIRTH
July 29, 1772
PLACE
DEATH
March 24, 1847
PLACE
FAMILY
BROTHER
Sir Richard Sullivan, 1st Baronet
(1752-1806)
BROTHER
George Sullivan
(1771–1838)
BROTHER
William Kirby Sullivan
(1821-1890)
CHILDREN
James Sullivan
(1744-1808)
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RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mehitable Sullivan Cutler Amory (1772–1847) was a Boston diarist and philanthropist, daughter of James Sullivan. Widowed from James Cutler, she married merchant Jonathan Amory in 1801. Her journals record household life, visits, religious reflections and weather, including the cold summer of 1816. That year she founded Boston’s Widows’ Society to assist older widows and single women. Her diaries survive at the Massachusetts Historical Society; sources differ on her death day.
EARLY LIFE
Mehitable Sullivan was born on Jul 29, 1772. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Mehitable Sullivan is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Mehitable Sullivan died on Mar 24, 1847. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mehitable Sullivan died on Mar 24, 1847. Mehitable Sullivan Cutler Amory was a Boston diarist and philanthropist, daughter of James Sullivan. Widowed from James Cutler, she married merchant Jonathan Amory in 1801. Her journals record household life, visits, religious reflections and weather, including the cold summer of 1816. That year she founded Boston’s Widows’ Society to assist older widows and single women. Her diaries survive at the Massachusetts Historical Society; sources differ on her death day. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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