May 2, 2010
Impact of Soldiering on a New York Wife and Family, 1755
“The Wife of a Labouring Man in Dye-Street, who to all Appearances went to Bed well on Tuesday Night last, was found dead in her Bed the Morning after, occasioned, it’s imagined, from the great Effect the Thoughts of her Husband’s enlisting as a Soldier had upon her. It seems the Man had left her for some Time before, and not gave her Notice where he was gone to; and the first Appearance he made was that very Evening, in order to take his Leave of her, he being one of the New-Jersey Recruits. She has left three Young Children behind.”
Connecticut Gazette, 21 June 1755.
Posted in New York City, Seven Years' War, women |
