Paul family.

Bela Paul (August 21, 1792- April 17, 1863) was born in Taunton, Massachusetts. He married Mary Elizabeth Briggs (July 7, 1796- May 3, 1841) of Keene, New Hampshire, on November 20, 1817. Bela and Mary Briggs Paul had four children: Julius Barton Paul (August 15, 1818- July 3, 1875), William Patterson Paul(December 18, 1824-September 3, 1878), Mary Stiles Paul (b. January 26, 1830), and Henry Strobridge Paul (b. November 26, 1831).

William Patterson Paul graduated in 1843 from Norwich University and soon after moved south. He lived in Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee where he enlisted in the Confederate army. He died of yellow fever in Memphis in 1878.

Mary Stiles Paul was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on January 26, 1830. A year later her family moved to Woodstock where they remained until 1840 when they moved to Barnard, Vermont. Mary's mother died a year later and she and her brother, Henry Strobridge Paul, were "put out" to earn their board. In the fall of 1843 she went to work in the cotton mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, and stayed there for three years. After a period in Claremont, New Hampshire, she joined the North American Phalanx, a communal, utopian society based on the philosophy of French philosopher Charles Fourier in Monmouth County, New Jersey. In 1855, she returned to New England and married Isaac Orr Guild (1831-?) on October 7, 1857. They lived in Lynn, Massachusetts. Their children were Irving Tracy Guild (b. Dec. 30, 1860) and Sydney Paul Guild (b. Aug. 31, 1862). A photocopy of her biography and a photograph (ca. 1890) from the frontispiece of Mary Stiles Paul Guild's Strobridge family genealogy is in Folder 0.

Mary Briggs Paul was born October 8, 1861, in Windsor, Vermont. In the 1900 census, she was living with her parents, Henry S. and Mercy Paul in Windsor. By 1910, her mother had died and Mary, listed under her married name of Marston, was living with her father. Marston's 1920 census notes that she was selling Snow White Washing powder in Windsor. She died sometime after 1936.