The Grosvenor-Sessions Abortion Case Pomfret, Connecticut, 1742
On September 14, 1742, nineteen year-old Sarah Grosvenor died as a result of a botched abortion. This site provides information on Sarah, her lover Amasa Sessions, and the events that led to Sarah's death. The documents were prepared by Prof. Cornelia Hughes Dayton. See her article on the case: "Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village," in Stanley N. Katz, John M. Murrin, and Douglas Greenberg, eds., Colonial America: Essas in Politics and Social Development (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993), 398-431.
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Sarah Grosvenor tombstone Amasa Sessions tombstone