Describes a conversation with Catharine Potter and Lucia Cooper about Mrs. Theodore Griffin's [former Elizabeth Gouverneur's] past. Transcription: A Harlot ?s Progress. think he [Rawson Gill] has alluded, to me, of his being sent for, on, or after his mother [Elizabeth Gill] ?s marriage with [Adolphus] Gouverneur. ?ǣGladdy [Gouverneur], ? or Gladstone, is as I long ago suspected, a bastard son of Gouverneurs ?; hence the money bequeathed to him by the man, who got introduced to the mother through the agency of a woman servant and being embarked in the criminal intimacy, had not courage to ris
Describes a conversation with Catharine Potter and Lucia Cooper about Mrs. Theodore Griffin's [former Elizabeth Gouverneur's] past. Transcription: A Harlot ?s Progress. think he [Rawson Gill] has alluded, to me, of his being sent for, on, or after his mother [Elizabeth Gill] ?s marriage with [Adolphus] Gouverneur. ?ǣGladdy [Gouverneur], ? or Gladstone, is as I long ago suspected, a bastard son of Gouverneurs ?; hence the money bequeathed to him by the man, who got introduced to the mother through the agency of a woman servant and being embarked in the criminal intimacy, had not courage to risk her violence and public scandal in breaking off. Of course the two lived wretchedly together, quarreled and even fought. She has knocked him down with a blow of her fist, an experience since shared by her children. She would throw her breakfast and utensils over the banisters, from the top of the stairs to the bottom, on some discontent with it or her landlady, swear and vituperate like a very drab. Withal she was pretty and had a pleasant voice. Whether she cuckolded Gouverneur deponent [Catharine Potter] knoweth not, suspects that she may have been faithful to him. With her humors and devil ?s whims, however, she killed the man. The Gouverneur family regarded her with the feelings inevitable to the case, but tolerated her. She has a sister, of like origin and proclivities, who, a married woman herself, eloped with a married man, Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 29, January 23, 1860 . 23 January 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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