*5 December 174S. 



obliged to pay them any thing more, be- 

 caufe (he has left them all me was worth* 

 even her cloaths, keeping only a fliift to 

 cover her, which the laws of the country 

 cannot refufe her. As foon as (he is mar- 

 ried, and no longer belongs to the deceafed 

 huiband, fhe puts on the cloaths which the 

 fecond has given her. The Swedijb clergy- 

 men here have often been obliged to marry a 

 woman in a drefs which isfo little expenfive, 

 and fo light. This appears from the re- 

 oifters kept in the churches, and from the 

 accounts given by the clergymen them- 

 felves. I havelikewife often feen accounts 

 of fuch marriages m the EngUJh gazettes, 

 which are printed in thefe colonies ; and 

 I particularlv remember the following rela- 

 tion : A woman went, with no other drefs 

 than her fhift, out of the houfe of her de- 

 ceafed hufband to that of her bridegroom, 

 who met her half way with fine new cloauis, 

 and faid, before all who were prefent, that 

 he lent them his bride ; and put them on 

 her with his own hands. It feems, he laid 

 that he lent the cloaths, left, if he had faid 

 he crave them, the creditors of the firft. huf- 

 band mould come, and take them from her 3 

 pretending, that fhe was looked upon as the 

 relia of her firft hufband, before me was 



married to the fecond. 



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