Catherine Field

At age 13 you marry John Field, a leather worker and businessman. As an Irish couple in Protestant Boston, your lives are difficult.
You run a boarding house near the center of town where you live with your husband and five children.
On the night of the Boston Massacre, one of your tenants tries to leave the house with a sword. Luckily you, and several others in the house, convince him to leave it behind.
After the war, your husband dies and you support yourself by selling vegetables.