3<* IXmriu 1748. 



to pay them toy dung more, be* 

 (he hats kit them all (he was worth, 

 even her dosths, keeping only a (hift to 

 cover her, which die laws of the country 

 cannot rafale her. As iboa as (he is mar- 

 ried* and no longer belongs to die dcccakd 

 hufband, Ihe pats on the deaths whkh the 

 fecond has given her* Toe SvxmifD clergy- 

 men here have often been obliged to many a 

 in a drefe which isfo litde txpenfivc, 



and fi> fight. This appears from the re- 

 giftcrs kept in the churches, and from the 

 nffiuiiti given by the clergymen thesn- 

 icbrcs. I have lib-wife often iecn accounts 

 o IHCJI uyuii4igc& in toe cjsnijv gazettes, 

 iy|?irK are printed in thefe colonies ; and 

 I nartkruiarir remember the following rela- 

 tion : A wo*mn went, widi no other drdLs 

 tkin her ihift, out of the hou& of herde- 

 ceaied Imftand to that of her bridegroom, 

 who met her half way widi fine orw deaths, 

 aod find; before all who woe prdent, that 

 he lent diem his bride ; and pat them on 

 her widi his own hands. It teems, be Cud 

 that he feat the doaths* left, tf he had kid 

 he gave them, die credit^sof die rii huf- 

 {booldcoGie, and take them from her ^ 

 that flir was looted upon as 



of her fiift hafiband, before &c was 



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