Miss Polly Glover was Mary Glover, born in Boston, October 12, 1758,
baptized at the Old South Church, married to Deacon James Morrell,
of the Old South, on April 23, 1778, and died April 3, 1842. She was
the daughter of Nathaniel Glover (who was born May 16, 1704, in
Dorchester; died December, 1773), and his wife, Anne Simpson. They
were married in 1750. Nathaniel Glover was a graduate of Harvard,
and a wealthy man; partner first of Thomas Hancock, and then of John
Hancock.