Excerpt from A Difference of Opinion: Concerning the Reasons Why Katharine Winthrop Refused to Marry Chief Justice Sewall It seems to have been assumed by Sewall's friends that his decision would be for a renewal of married life, and some of them appeared to have interested themselves in selecting a partner for him, while he himself was not inactive in the matter. At the outset he seems to have been a little in doubt in which direction to throw the handkerchief; but somewhat later, on the 3d of June, 1718, he started for ...
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Excerpt from A Difference of Opinion: Concerning the Reasons Why Katharine Winthrop Refused to Marry Chief Justice Sewall It seems to have been assumed by Sewall's friends that his decision would be for a renewal of married life, and some of them appeared to have interested themselves in selecting a partner for him, while he himself was not inactive in the matter. At the outset he seems to have been a little in doubt in which direction to throw the handkerchief; but somewhat later, on the 3d of June, 1718, he started for Roxbury, with the intention of offering himself to a wealthy widow whose husband when on his death-bed, little more than two monthsbefore, had sent for Sewall to draw his will. A friend whom he met on the way persuaded him to postpone this injudiciously hasty declaration; and it was not until the end of the following November that the Chief Justice, finding that, in spite of a vigorous and protracted courtship, the lady persisted in declin ing to change her name for Sewall, wrote in his Diary: My bowels yearn towards M Dennison, but I think God directs me in his Providence to desist. Disappointed, but not disheartened, by this misadventure, he lay upon his oars, so to speak, during the winter; but the ensuing summer found his. Affections fastened upon another widow, a native of New Jersey, less advantageously dowered than her predecessor, but who, having been already blessed with two husbands, was apparently not indisposed to try a third. Sewall evidently did not think it necessary to ply her with the numerous gifts which had been of so little service to him in his suit to Mrs. Dennison; and he seems to have con tented himself with presenting to Mrs. Tilly a little book, previously given by him to his first wife, and entitled by its author, Dr. Cotton Mather, Ornaments for the Baugh ters of Zion. These ornaments, however, proved sufficiently enticing. The widow married the Chief Justice a few weeks later; but her health was poor, and after not quite seven months of wedlock, he found himself a second time a widower, in the spring of 1720. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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