145: The Cellar

When America was born, founding father Patrick Henry was newly married to his much younger new wife. But what happened to his first wife, Sarah Shelton? Why did she spend the last four years of her life locked in the family cellar? www.patreon.com/allmadpodcast SOURCES: Sarah Shelton Henry: The Wife Patrick Henry Kept in the Cellar […]

When America was born, founding father Patrick Henry was newly married to his much younger new wife. But what happened to his first wife, Sarah Shelton? Why did she spend the last four years of her life locked in the family cellar?

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SOURCES:

Sarah Shelton Henry: The Wife Patrick Henry Kept in the Cellar by Sheila Phelps Inderbitzen

“Sir, We Are Not Weak” – Women of the Patrick Henry Household

http://podcasts.history.org/041210/PatrickHenrysSecret.cfm

https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/patrick-and-sarah-henry-mental-illness-18th-century-america

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Shelton_Henry

Sarah Shelton Henry

Sarah Shelton Henry

https://books.google.com/books?id=8paiDAAAQBAJ&printsec=copyright#v=onepage&q&f=false