Wednesday, July 11, 2012

A High-Toned Virginia Woman Goes Bad

This is how I got to descend from the good second wife, Milly McGehee (or M'Gehe or another variant) rather than the highborn and high-toned but immoral Mary Terrell Chiles, a disgrace to the Quakers but a woman who knows her own mind and is used to having her own way.


From the North Carolina Gazette, 7 April 1775, a delayed publication--because Joseph M'Gehe was ready to marry again? Or because of another reason? This is one issue of 12 that survive for the year 1775.



                     
Signed and acknowledged in the Presence of Robert Goodloe and
Thomas Jackson.



2 comments:

  1. What an interesting and public article!

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  2. At it survives by a miracle--in one of the dozen surviving issues of the paper from 1775.

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