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Domestic News June 7, 1850

Keowee Courier

Walhalla, Pickens, Oconee County, Pickens County, South Carolina

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In the Parker murder trial in New Hampshire, Edmund Wentworth testified against his brothers Asa and Henry, recounting his six marriages, including divorces, deaths, and a marriage obligation.

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Free Soil Institutions.--One of the witnesses against Asa and Henry Wentworth, in the Parker murder, in New Hampshire, was their brother Edmund Wentworth, who gave the following as to his wonderful matrimonial experience:

From my second wife I was divorced I did not live with her; she left me, and I married a third wife. I did not live with her because I did not like her well enough. I married her because I was obliged to. I married a fourth time to a woman by whom I had three children. She died, and I married a fifth, lived with her between two and three years, but had no children; I don't know but what she is in heaven: I never asked her where she was going. I married a sixth wife at Asa Wentworth's house. in Manchester, about six years ago. It appears that his fifth wife, of whom he 'don't know but she had gone to heaven,' had been gone three years, without his having heard from her, when he married the last one.

What sub-type of article is it?

Crime Legal Or Court

What keywords are associated?

Parker Murder Wentworth Brothers Multiple Marriages New Hampshire Trial Matrimonial Testimony

What entities or persons were involved?

Edmund Wentworth Asa Wentworth Henry Wentworth

Where did it happen?

New Hampshire

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Primary Location

New Hampshire

Key Persons

Edmund Wentworth Asa Wentworth Henry Wentworth

Event Details

Edmund Wentworth testified about his six marriages during the trial against his brothers Asa and Henry for the Parker murder.

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