Mary Ellen Marie Fanning
Lifespan: 1665 - 1743
Birth: 28 Apr 1665 in New London, Connecticut
Occupation: Homemaker
Marriage: Benjamin Hewitt Sr.
Children: ames French, David French, Mary French, Almira French, Frost French
Parents: Edmund Fanning & Ellen Butler
Death: 14 Dec 1743 in Stonington, Connecticut
Burial: Stonington, Connecticut
Chapter 1: Early Life and Family (1665–1683)
A Colonial Beginning
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Lillie stitched together survival and love in the shadows of Bangor’s mills, raising a blended family through grit, grace, and the scent of molasses cookies.
Read MoreAnna's life stretched from the valleys of Massachusetts to the homesteads of Maine, raising children and crops with quiet strength and a heart rooted in purpose.
Read MoreAnna’s grace and quiet strength nurtured four children and anchored the Hewitt family through ministry, farming, and change.
Read MoreCarolyn weathered love, loss, and migration from Rome to Bangor, holding her family together with farm-worn hands and the fierce resolve of a frontier mother.
Read MoreMary crossed an ocean for faith, weathered war and witch hunts, and built a family that would help shape colonial New England from forest clearing to town green.
Read MoreStephen answered the call of revolution with musket in hand and heart full of duty, building a life of quiet service, devotion, and generational strength from Massachusetts to New York.
Read MoreHepzibah carried the spirit of Stonington into the wilderness of Stillwater, building a home from toil and prayer before passing too soon, her legacy sown in her sons.
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