314 December 1748, 



may marry in thefe provinces, without any fear 

 of poverty; for there is fuch a tradt of good 

 ground yet uncultivated, that a new-married man 

 can, without difficulty, get a fpot of ground, 

 where he may fufficiently fubfift with his wife 

 and children. The taxe's are very low, and 

 he need not be under any concern on their ac- 

 count. The liberties he enjoys are fo great, that 

 he confiders hirnfelf as a prince in his poffeffions, 

 I fcall here cernonftrate, by fome plain examples, 

 what effect fuch a conftitution is capable of, 



MAONS KEEN, one of the Swedes in Raccoon, 

 was now near feventy years old: he had many 

 children, grandchildren, and great-grandchil- 

 dren ; fo that, ofthofe who were yet alive, he 

 could mufter up forty-live perfons. Befides 

 them, feveral of his children 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 feen in the following examples, and which I 

 have extracted from the Philadelphia gazette. 



IN the year 1732, died at Ipfwtcb, in New 

 'England^ Mrs. Sarah Tut hi I, a widow, aged 

 eighty-fix years. She had brought fixteen chil- 

 dren into the world ; and from feven of them on- 

 ly, (lie had feen one hundred and feventy-feven 

 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. 



IN 1739, May 3Oth, the children, grand, and 

 great-grandchildren, of Mr. Richard Butiington, 

 in the parifh of Chefter, in Penjyfoania, were af- 

 fembled in his houfe; and they made together 

 one hundred and fifteen perfons, The parent of 

 thefe children, Richard Buttington, who was 

 born in England) was then entering into his 



eighty- 



