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(VERMONT). (MARTIAL STRIFE). GAGE, L.[YDIA] O[RCULT]. ALS to Husband Amasa Concerning Marital Issues. July 1, 1879. Hardwick, (Vermont). Sheet 8 x10 inches, folded in half. 8 pp. Light pencil. No cover. $175.00

 

      Lydia is not pleased with her husband, and in this closely written letter of eight pages, she catalogs his misdeeds and faults including the time he was caught with a fourteen year old in the barn. ?��She went to the house told her Mother and Grandma you did kiss her & they wanted it hushed up for her Mother said her Father would be so mad he would take you up. I forgave you kept it to myself not many months after another accusation of a deeper die came up you first denied that again then we moved to Sunderland...I was there carrying my Genie...there are those living today who knows how things were managed...?��

     Lydia writes of their frequent moves and the time he struck Genie (their daughter) with a whip ?��and Emory Miller steped between you & her saying Brother Gage don?��t strike that girl again?��.

     She relates the time he gave her medicine straight that was supposed to be taken in milk. She closes with ?��to see if truth will not show you by these words first pull the mote out of thy own eye then shall thou see clearly to pull the beam out of thy brother?��s eye from L.O. Gage."

     Amasa Warren Gage (1826-1903) was born in New Salem, Franklin Co., Massachusetts, and lived as a farmer in Brattleboro, Vermont area. He married  Lydia Orcult Carpenter (1827-) in 1846 and they had Emogene  and  Fred W. Gage.