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bride ; and put them on her with his own hands. 

 It feems he faid that he lent the cloaths, left, if 

 he had faid he gave them, the creditors of the 

 firft hufband fhould come and take them from 

 her ; pretending, that {he was looked upon as 

 the relidt of her firft hufband, before fhe was 

 married to the fecond. 



Dec. 2 1 ft. IT feems very probable, from the 

 following obfervations, that long before the ar- 

 rival of the Swedes , there have been Europeans in 

 this province ; and, in the fequel, we (hall give 

 more confirmations of this opinion. The fame 

 old Maons Keen, whom I have already mentioned 

 before, told me repeatedly, that, on the arrival 

 of the Swedes in the laft century, and on their 

 making a fettlement, called Helfingburg, on the 

 banks of the Delaware, fomewhat below the 

 place where Salem is now fituated ; they found, 

 at the depth of twenty feet, fome wells, inclofed 

 with walls. This could not be a work of the 

 native Americans, or Indians, as bricks were en- 

 tirely unknown to them when the European^ 

 firft fettled here, at the end of the fifteenth cen-* 

 tury ; and they ftill lefs knew how to make ufe 

 of them. The wells were, at that time, on the 

 land ; but in fuch a place, on the banks of the 

 Delaware, as is fometimes under water, and 

 fome times dry. But iince, the ground has been 

 fo wafhed away, that the wells are entirely co- 

 vered by the river, and the water i? feldom low 

 enough to ftew the wells. As the Swedes after-r 

 wards made new wells for themfeives, at fome 

 diftance from the former, they difcovered, in the 

 ground, forpe broken earthea veflels, and fome 



