Alexander Twilight - Marriage and Family

Marriage and Family

From 1824 to 1828, Twilight worked as a teacher in Peru, New York, There Twilight, 31, married Mercy Ladd Merrill in 1826. She was about 21 or 22.

After they came to Brownington and built a house, they used the second floor to house students who needed a place to board for school.

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