Dilly Curtiss’ letter from 1814 was found among papers collected by the first Warren Historical Society from the Warren Congregational Church. It would have arrived during the pastorate of Peter Starr. We have only the one letter but Mrs. Curtiss appears to have been excommunicated, a state to which she is objecting to in the strongest possible terms and which may have been in effect for five years.
Dilly or Della was born December 27th, 1770, in Warren, the daughter of Joseph and Dolly [Owens] Peters who had a lease in the College Farms. On November 24th, 1788, she married Milton Curtiss. She and her husband are buried in the Old Warren Cemetery although their monuments do not remain.