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Title: Sedgwicks in Love: Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage in the Early Republic
Author: Timothy Kenslea
ISBN: 9781584654940
Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr
Published: 2005
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : On a spring day in 1774, in western Massachusetts’ Berkshire County, Pamela Dwight and Theodore Sedgwick were married. Theodore – destined to become one of the Federalist party’s leaders in the U.S. Congress in the 1790s and later an influential judge on Massachusetts’ highest court – was almost twenty-eight, and three years a widower. Pamela, not quite twenty-one, was marrying Theodore Sedgwick over the clearly stated objections of her widowed mother. In the course of her thirty-three-year marriage to Theodore, Pamela gave birth to ten children, seven of whom – four sons and three daughters – survived to adulthood. All but one of them would marry.
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