Miriam was born on February 11th, 1720 in New York, NY. Miriam's father was Moses Raphael Levy and her mother was Grace Mears. Her paternal grandfather was Isaac+ Levy and her paternal grandmother is Beila+ X. She had a brother and a sister, named Benjamin and Rachel. She was the second oldest of the three children. She had four half-brothers and a half-sister, named Asher, Nathan, Isaac, Michael Jechiel and Bilhah Abigail. She died at the age of 27 on February 4th, 1748.