Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies

part in the tragedy of her early death. He had taken small pox, had

been duly quarantined and discharged but his young wife combed out the tangles of his matted hair, caught the disease, and died, within a year after marriage.

Marriage was necessary in those days, his daughter suggests, and the year of conventional widowhood having expired, Mr. Sedgwick, then at the age of twe...