Wake County, NC - Sally Lockhart to Samuel Lockhart, 1817

Williamsborough, NC
April 15, 1817

Mr. Samuel Lockhart,

My dear husband - You have left me, your dutiful and affectionate
wife, and taken to your bosom Mrs. Elizabeth Atkins of Petersburg,
Va, a woman less virtuous, less affectionate, less industrious,
and less economical than myself. When your reason has power to
exercise itself, which I expect will succeed that glow of sascinated
amour with which you have forsaken me, I hope you will return to your
lawful wife.

Your lavish presents to your harlot, Mrs. Atkins, and neglect of
business by your attention to her, have incurred debts that will
exhaust all the property you have left behind. But when I took you
first, you were pennyless and I made you rich; you were comfortless
and I made you happy - Repent and return - That kind Providence,
which fostered our first exertions, I pray may continue, and we may
be restored to happiness and plenty - Your loving and dutiful wife,
                                        Sally Lockhart

N.B. I have not any money to pay to editors for publishing the above
letter; but those of the United States (for I know not to which
of the states my husband has gone) who will give it several insertions
shall have the prayers of a distressed woman to that throne of grace
from which all rewards flow.
                                        Sally Lockhart

May 9, 1817

Source: Raleigh Star, April 15, 1817

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