[9][10] Oliver died, possibly in Bernardston, Massachusetts, sometime after October 19, 1776, as this is the date when he deeded land in Lebanon, Connecticut, to his son, Wadsworth.
[9][10][12][16] Their daughter was Ruby Brewster,[9][17][18] born January 5, 1733/34 at Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut, and died at an unknown date in Bernardston, Massachusetts.
Her husband, Oliver, had relocated to Bernardston, Massachusetts prior to October 28, 1765[18] and she is not mentioned in any of the records in that town.
Previous colonial American women poets, Anne Bradstreet and Jane Colman Turell, focused primarily on religion and family life.
[4] While she does write about more conventional religious and family themes, her work is also the first to tackle radical subject matter[2] for a woman of the eighteenth-century and reflects a shift from those themes to focus on the evils of war, military invasion and conquest and its cumulative effect on a nation and its citizens; and locates a woman's voice alongside those of the male founders of the country.
In a later poem of hers, she included a line that reads "Ye Creatures all, in vast Amazement Stand" evinces some trace of personal nuance aimed at those who had attempted to depreciate her competence as a poet.
In addition, she commemorated historical events in her poetry; in 1745, she set to meter a piece describing the capture of Cape Breton from the French by the British.