Daughter Martha's obit notes that Joshua and Mercy had ten children: "...Martha Philena Gage was .... the youngest of ten children.... Both of her parents died before she was four years of age leaving her, as she was the only girl, to the care of her brothers..."
Beaumont/Jacobs family papers
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