Mehitabel Nott married Jospeh Webb Sr. in 1749. He died in
1761. They were the parents of Joseph Webb Jr. who married
Abigail Chester in 1774. Mehitabel later married a lawyer, Silas
Deane, in 1763. They had one son, Jesse Deane. Mehitabel
died in 1767. In 1769, Deane married another rich widow,
Elizabeth Saltonstall Evards. Silas Deane served in the First
Continental Congress and was later sent as an agent to France to secure
arms and support for the American revolutionary
cause. In this portrait, Mehitabel is seen with her
son Jesse, age 2. She is holding a book and has her elbow on
another book, indicating that she is a literate woman who can read and
write. There is a parrot on her knee, an exotic bird, indicating
that she has the wealth for exotic things.
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