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Polly (or Molly) was the oldest of three daughters born to Mary and Dan Page of Saco. Polly included her birth date, December 19, 1780, on her sampler; her sister Rhoda was born in 1782 and Nancy in 1784. The 1790 Federal Census lists Dan Page and one other person as living in the "Pepperell Gore." Dan died in July 1800, and according to the 1800 Census, the Widow Page was living in Pepperrellborough with two young women and a young man. The young women may have well have been her daughters Polly and Nancy, as Rhoda died in May 1799. Mary Page only survived her husband by two years and died in April 1803. Nancy Page married Sherbourne Tilton in Saco, but no marriage, death, or cemetery records have been found for Polly. The verse which Polly chose for her simple marking sampler reads: "Polly Page is my name, America is my nation, Saco is my dwelling place, and Christ is my Salvation."