4 December 1748. 



need not be under any concern on their 

 account. The liberties he enjoys are fo great, 

 that he confiders himfelf as a prince in his 

 pofTeffions. I fhall here demon (Irate by 

 fome plain examples, what effect fuch a 

 constitution is capable of. 



Maons Keen, one of the Swedes in Rac~ 

 coon, was now near feventy years old : he 

 had many children, grandchildren, and 

 great-grandchildren ; fo that, of thofe who 

 were yet alive, he could mutter up forty-t:ve 

 perfons. Befides them, feveral of his chil- 

 dren and grandchildren died young, and 

 fome in a mature age. He was, therefore, 

 uncommonly blefled. 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 Ipjwich, 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, fhe had feen one hundred and feven ty- 

 {qvcd. grandchildren and great-grandchil- 

 dren. 



In the year 1739? May the 30th, the 

 children, grand and great-grandchildren, of 

 Mr. Richard Buttington, in the parifli of 

 Ghejkr, in Penfpvania, were afiembled in 



his 



