2 Many touching examples appear in the correspondence of the condemned leader of Penruddock’s rising, John Penruddock, with his “virtuous lady,” whom he routinely addressed as “my dearest heart,” added many other basciamani which were conventional in this period. The correspondence is in the Wiltshire Record Office, Trowbridge.
3 Julia Cherry Spruill, Women’s Life and Work in the Southern Colonies (1938, rpt, New York, 1969), 184.