Judith suffered a financial reverse in 1815 which led to her estrangement from a number of her relatives. She spent much of the last fourteen years of her life supporting herself while living in
Port Royal, Virginia. Poor health led her to move, in 1827, to live with a sister in
Fredericksburg, where she died early the following year and where she was buried in the churchyard of
St. George's Episcopal Church. the couple were her aunt and uncle by marriage. She was a self-declared admirer of the works of
Ossian. Her book of verse,
Notes of an American Lyre, was published in
Richmond, Virginia in 1813, with a dedication to
Thomas Jefferson. She is known to have visited Jefferson, a former acquaintance of her father's, at
Monticello and written verse about the house during her career. Eleven of her poems were sent by her father to
St. George Tucker for criticism; they are today held in the special collections library of the
College of William and Mary in
Williamsburg. ==References==