4 December 1748. 



need not be under any concern on their 

 account. The liberties he enjoys are fo great, 

 "that he coniiders himfelf as a prince in his 

 poilefiions. I fhall here demonftrate by 

 fome plain examples, what effect fuch a 

 conftitution is capable of. 



Maons Keen, one of the Swedes in Rac- 

 coon, was now near feventy years old : he 

 had many children, grandchildren, and 

 great-grandchildren -, fo that, of thofe who 

 were yet alive, he could mutter up forty-five 

 perfons. Befides them, feveral of his chil- 

 dren and grandchildren died young, and 

 fome in a mature age. He was, therefore, 

 uncommonly bleffed. Yet his happinefs is 

 not comparable to that which is to be feea 

 in the following examples, and which I have 

 extracted from the Philadelphia gazette. 



In the year 1732, January the 24th, 

 died at Ipfwich, in New England, Mrs. 

 Sarah Tut/oil, a widow, aged eighty-fix 

 years. She had brought fix teen children 

 into the world ; and from feven of them 

 only, (lie had feen one hundred and feventy- 

 feven grandchildren and great-grandchil- 

 dren. 



In the year 1739, May the 30th, the 

 children, grand and great-grandchildren, of 

 Mr. Richard Buttington 9 in the pariffi of 

 Cbefier, in Penjy>vania 9 were affembled in 



his 



