What Was The Role Of Mary Silliman

During the revolution and establishment of the nation in the America, women played diverse roles for instance, being support and sources of inspiration to their male partners. What is more women being in charge of their households and farms when their husbands engage in other activities that were closely associated with men for example politics or war. Mary Silliman was a Puritan mother and a wife, she was widowed twice and went through a lot of hardships in her life. Because of the American Revolution and kidnapping of her second husband - an officer in the Continental militia, Gold Selleck Silliman, she was forced to change. She became more assured politically and played a very active role by taking charge of the household and her farm.
Mary may thus be seen as undermining the prescribed roles for both sexes in this situation as she asserts her capability to manage what was presumed to be a male defined task. Her petition to the governor, in itself, presents a situation wherein a female asserts her capability to use her reason and political will in order to free her spouse. Consequently, she wrote a letter with her father’s help to the Governor Trumbull explaining her state and her
When Mr. Silliman came back he had to be careful because the British still wanted to recapture him. He also petitioned to the assembly to get his money back from the time he spends in captivity "since all my Trouble came by means of my being an Officer in their Service."(Buel and Buel 176) As expected he was denied. Mr. Silliman was released from the British captivity not only because of the letters and appeals but because of his wife’s perseverance and self-determination. Mary Fish-Sulliman has changed as a woman during the Revolutionary War, she became more independent and more politically active, at the same time her true Puritan heart and her devotion to her husband did not change. She was fortunate in her marriages, young love in her first and passion in her second. After all it was her choice to marry for love, she was lucky to never regret any of her choices, also in eighteen century not all woman could claim that. Throughout her life she became a stronger woman and her war experiences made her loving bond towards her husband even