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<li><em>A Woman of the Century </em>incorrectly spelled Catharine's name as Catherine.</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Note that Catharine’s published paper spelled her nickname “Mum-Bett” not Mumbet or Mumbett, but the name on her headstone is spelled “Mumbet.” (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">See </span></i><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bentley_s_Miscellany/8-ARAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miss Sedgewick [sic], “Slavery in New England,” in XXXIV </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bentley’s Miscellany</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 417, 424 (1853)).</span></a></li>
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SEDGWICK, Miss Catharine Maria
Born in Stockbridge, MA, Catharine Maria Sedgwick was the sixth of the seven surviving children of Theodore Sedgwick and Pamela Dwight Sedgwick. Catharine’s mother was ill for most of her childhood and died when Catharine was seventeen. A year later,…