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Back in Poughkeepsie, it was only six months after her older sister's marriage that Henry's youngest daughter died. Henry must have asked God if it were he that was cursed, because in the July 1794 issue of New-York Magazine, he publishes a poem about Rispah, a concubine of King Saul, whose children were hung by David for the sins of their father. And did ye, O my hapless offspring! bleed For your unhappy father's thoughtless deed? Three weeks later, Jane delivered their first child, a son that they named Charles. In his bible Henry had written on the death of his first wife Sarah that "The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away." This time, the Lord reversed Himself. There would another small stocking hung at Henry's mantlepiece this Christmas.