According to Shattuck’s Memorials103, “84. ANNA SHATTUCK, dau. of Samuel, (p. 99,) was b. April 13, 1731, and d. in Groton about 1780. She was a woman of great worth and remarkable energy of character, and excelled as a mother and manager of her household affairs. As compared with her husband she is said to have been the better man of the two.” Harris104 quotes this report from Shattuck’s Memorials and reports further that “This would seem to be born out by the records: Apl 5, 1773. Simon Blood of Groton is represented as n. c. m. by the Selectmen of Groton from Rum and ‘a person of low natural capacity,’ has a weakly wife and four children. In 1785 his son-in-law represents that the guardian is dead and that the wife, who was principal support of the family, is dead likewise.”