"Both her parents died during her infancy. She is reported to have embarked for America alone and possibly as a stowaway when but nine years old. At any rate she was said to have arrived at Portsmouth without any means to pay her passage." - From: "The Story of Berwick"
She married John in 1735 when she was only 21 and he twenty years her senior. They had had three children, all sons, when John left her. Both she and her oldest son, Benjamin who became sick, were devastated by his departure. She was determined to put things right and reunite her family, so she took out an advertisement in the "Boston Evening Post", No. 416, Monday, July 25, 1743. What follow is the beginning third of the ad:
"My dear and loving Husband, -- Your abrupt Departure from me, and forsaking of me your Wife and tender Babes, which I now humbly acknowledge and confess I was greatly if not wholly the Occasion of, by my too rash and unadvised Speech and Behavior towards you; for which I now in this publick Manner humbly ask your Forgiveness, and here-by promise upon your Return, to amend and reform, and by my future loving and obedient Carriage towards you, endeavour [sic] to make an Atonement for my past evil Deeds, and manifest to you and the whole World that I am become a new Woman, and will prove to you a loving dutiful and tender wife." The ad continued in the same vein.
John did return to her and they remained together until his death more than 50 years later. They had three more children, two sons and a daughter.
She married John in 1735 when she was only 21 and he twenty years her senior. They had had three children, all sons, when John left her. Both she and her oldest son, Benjamin who became sick, were devastated by his departure. She was determined to put things right and reunite her family, so she took out an advertisement in the "Boston Evening Post", No. 416, Monday, July 25, 1743. What follow is the beginning third of the ad:
"My dear and loving Husband, -- Your abrupt Departure from me, and forsaking of me your Wife and tender Babes, which I now humbly acknowledge and confess I was greatly if not wholly the Occasion of, by my too rash and unadvised Speech and Behavior towards you; for which I now in this publick Manner humbly ask your Forgiveness, and here-by promise upon your Return, to amend and reform, and by my future loving and obedient Carriage towards you, endeavour [sic] to make an Atonement for my past evil Deeds, and manifest to you and the whole World that I am become a new Woman, and will prove to you a loving dutiful and tender wife." The ad continued in the same vein.
John did return to her and they remained together until his death more than 50 years later. They had three more children, two sons and a daughter.
"Both her parents died during her infancy. She is reported to have embarked for America alone and possibly as a stowaway when but nine years old. At any rate she was said to have arrived at Portsmouth without any means to pay her passage." - From: "The Story of Berwick"
She married John in 1735 when she was only 21 and he twenty years her senior. They had had three children, all sons, when John left her. Both she and her oldest son, Benjamin who became sick, were devastated by his departure. She was determined to put things right and reunite her family, so she took out an advertisement in the "Boston Evening Post", No. 416, Monday, July 25, 1743. What follow is the beginning third of the ad:
"My dear and loving Husband, -- Your abrupt Departure from me, and forsaking of me your Wife and tender Babes, which I now humbly acknowledge and confess I was greatly if not wholly the Occasion of, by my too rash and unadvised Speech and Behavior towards you; for which I now in this publick Manner humbly ask your Forgiveness, and here-by promise upon your Return, to amend and reform, and by my future loving and obedient Carriage towards you, endeavour [sic] to make an Atonement for my past evil Deeds, and manifest to you and the whole World that I am become a new Woman, and will prove to you a loving dutiful and tender wife." The ad continued in the same vein.
John did return to her and they remained together until his death more than 50 years later. They had three more children, two sons and a daughter.
She married John in 1735 when she was only 21 and he twenty years her senior. They had had three children, all sons, when John left her. Both she and her oldest son, Benjamin who became sick, were devastated by his departure. She was determined to put things right and reunite her family, so she took out an advertisement in the "Boston Evening Post", No. 416, Monday, July 25, 1743. What follow is the beginning third of the ad:
"My dear and loving Husband, -- Your abrupt Departure from me, and forsaking of me your Wife and tender Babes, which I now humbly acknowledge and confess I was greatly if not wholly the Occasion of, by my too rash and unadvised Speech and Behavior towards you; for which I now in this publick Manner humbly ask your Forgiveness, and here-by promise upon your Return, to amend and reform, and by my future loving and obedient Carriage towards you, endeavour [sic] to make an Atonement for my past evil Deeds, and manifest to you and the whole World that I am become a new Woman, and will prove to you a loving dutiful and tender wife." The ad continued in the same vein.
John did return to her and they remained together until his death more than 50 years later. They had three more children, two sons and a daughter.
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See John Sullivan FAG # 65965784, her husband's memorial page.
