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Perez Morton
Standard Name: Morton, Perez
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Wentworth Morton | A much more painful scandal brewed when Perez Morton
embarked on an adulterous affair with his wife's sister Fanny
, when she came to stay with the family in about 1786. Fanny bore his baby... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Wentworth Morton | Sarah Wentworth Apthorp
married the lawyer and patriot politician Perez Morton
, who had already gained a name for himself as a rousing public speaker. Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931. 25 American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Wentworth Morton | Perez Morton
, husband of SWM
, died at over the age of eighty-five. Stevens, Peter F. “It Happened in Dorchester: A Literary Lionness and a Whiff of Scandal”. Dorchester Reporter, 24 Jan. 2002. Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931. 102 |
| Publishing | Judith Sargent Murray | The set was dedicated to John Adams
, and subscribers included the dedicatee, many of the author's relations, Sarah Wentworth Morton
and her husband
, Susanna Haswell Rowson
, and George
and Martha Washington
.... |
| Residence | Sarah Wentworth Morton | SWM
and her husband
moved from Boston to Dorchester (later Roxbury), Massachusetts, to a house which (according to American National Biography) they had built to Sarah's design. Stevens, Peter F. “It Happened in Dorchester: A Literary Lionness and a Whiff of Scandal”. Dorchester Reporter, 24 Jan. 2002. Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931. 68 American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. |
| Textual Production | Sarah Wentworth Morton | William Hill Brown
's epistolary, sentimental The Power of Sympathy; or, The Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, the first American novel, presented an episode of seduction and suicide modelled on that of... |
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