Child family

United States Congressman Theodore Sedgwick (1746-1813) and his first wife, Pamela Dwight (1752 or 1754-1807), had seven surviving children: Elizabeth Mason (1775-1827), Frances Pamela (1778-1842), Theodore (1780-1839), Henry Dwight (1785-1831), Robert (1787-1841), Catharine Maria (1789-1867), and Charles (1791-1856). Henry Dwight Sedgwick, who married Jane Minot (b. 1795), graduated from Williams College in 1804 and became a lawyer in New York City. Catharine Maria Sedgwick, along with her sister-in-law Elizabeth, the wife of Charles Sedgwick, ran the Lenox Academy, a women's school in Lenox, Massachusetts; she became a successful novelist with publications such as A New-England Tale (1822) and Hope Leslie (1827).

Robert Sedgwick married Elizabeth Dana Ellery (1799-1862), a granddaughter of Declaration of Independence signer William Ellery, on August 21, 1822. Their surviving children included Elizabeth Ellery (1824-1909), William Ellery (1825-1873), and Susan Ridley (1828-1883). William Ellery Sedgwick graduated from Harvard in 1846 and became a lawyer in New York City. Susan Ridley Sedgwick married New York City lawyer Charles E. Butler on October 1, 1855.

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