One year after her rape, the fourteen-year-old TCP
married Francis Delafield
(bigamously, since he was married already, but with proper forms and witnesses), apparently in order to evade her creditors.
Phillips, Teresia Constantia. An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips. Printed for the author, 1750, 3 vols.
1: 82, 87
Stone, Lawrence. Uncertain Unions. Marriage in England, 1660-1753. Oxford University Press, 1992.