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need not be under any concern on their 

 account. The liberties he enjoys are fo great, 

 that he confiders bimfelf as a prince in his 

 pofleffions. I ihall here demonftrate by 

 fome plain examples, what effedt fuch a 

 conftitution is capable of. 



MAONS KEEN, one of the Swedes in Raf- 

 cooriy was now near feventy years old : he 

 had many children, grandchildren, and 

 great-grandchildren ; fo that, of thofe who 

 were yet alive, he could mufter up forty- five 

 perfons. Befides them, feveral of his chil- 

 dren and grandchildren died young, and 

 fome in a mafiire 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, January the 24th, 

 died at Ipfwicb, in New England, Mrs, 

 Sarah Tuthil, a widow, aged eighty-fix 

 years. She had brought fixteen children 

 into the world ; and from feven of them 

 only, me had feen one hundred and feventy- 

 feven grandchildren and great-grandchil- 

 dren. 



IN the year 1739, May the joth, the 

 children, grand and great-grandchildren, of 

 Mr. Richard Buttington, in the parifh of 

 Cbejier, in PenfjManta, were aflembled in 



his 



