Nathaniel Ames (born 1741)
…human shape." His wife forbid him from frequenting taverns, depriving him of both social and business contacts. The couple took in Melitiah's niece, Hannah Shuttleworth, when the girl was 16 years old. When Ames died in 1822, he left his fortune to his wife and, upon her death, to the unmarried Hannah, his closest…