She took out her Book of Ages: June the 12-1764 Died a beloved & Deservedly Lamented Daughter Sarah Flagg. She has Left four Children. Jane. Mary Josiah & Sarah. Jane’s daughter Sarah had married a housewright named William Flagg. And then, just before her twenty-seventh birthday—almost exactly the same age at which Neddy and Eben had succumbed—she died, leaving four children: Jenny, seven; Josiah, three; Mary (called Polly), two; and Sally, one. Sarah Mecom Flagg: beloved and deservedly lamented. “She always appear’d to me of a sweet and amiable Temper,” Franklin wrote Jane, consoling her. “She is doubtless happy:—which none of us are while in this Life.”1 The children came to live with their grandmother. The baby was sick. Novr 9-1764 Died under my Care my Daughter flaggs youngest Child aged 17 months. Under my Care. She thought it was her fault.2 She wrote, at the beginning of March 1765, Died my Daughter Flagg Second Daughter Polly a sober Plesant Child “The sick child I mentioned to you in my Last Died the next Day,”
