A month after the marriage had begun, Mary left to live with her family back in Oxford. She returned three years later to reunite with Milton. Her reasons for disappearing and returning are, to this day, undetermined. The Powell family was placed in a dangerous position after the loss at the Battle of Naseby and within a year of Mary’s return, her whole family moved in with the married couple. Milton’s family soon grew to contain himself, Mary, and their three daughters Anne, Mary, and Deborah (complications during birth lead Mary to die after delivering