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Wife, he had it put into Breeches, as a Boy, pre- 

 tending it was a Relation's Child he was to breed 

 up to be his Clerk. 



The Wife heard he had a little Boy at Home 

 he was very fond of, but as flie did not know any 

 Relation of his that had fiich a Child, flie em- 

 ployed a Friend to enquire further into it; this 

 Perfon by talking with the Child, found it to be a 

 Girl, difcovered that the Servant-Maid was its 

 Mother, and that the Husband ftill kept up his 

 Correfpondence with her. 



Upon this Intelligence, the Wife being unwil- 

 ling that her Children's Money Ihould go towards 

 the Maintenance of Baftards, flopped the Allowance : 

 The Husband enraged, in a kind of Revenge, takes 

 the Maid home, and lives with her publickly, to 

 the great Scandal of his Neighbours-, but he loon 

 found the bad Effefl: of it, for by Degrees loft his 

 Praftice^ fo that he faw plainly he could not live 

 there, therefore he thought of removing, and 

 turning what EfFefts he had into ready Money j 

 he goes to Cork^ and there with his Maid and 

 Daughter embarques for Carolina. 



At firft he followed the Practice of the Law in 

 that Province, but afterwards fell into Merchan- 

 dize, which proved more fuccefsful to him, for he 

 gained by it fuificient to purchafe a confiderable 

 Plantation : His Maid, who paffed for his Wife, 

 happened to dye, after which his Daughter, our 

 jinne Bonny ^ now grown up, kept his Houfe. 

 : She was of a fierce and couragious Temper, 

 wherefore, when Ihe lay under Condemnation, (e- 

 yeral Stories were reported of her^ much to her 

 bifadvantage, as that fhe had kilTd an E?iglijh Ser- 

 vant-Maid once in her Paffion with a Cale-Knife, 

 while ftie looked after her Father's Houfe^ but 

 upon further Enquiry, I found this Story to be 

 jgroundlefs : It was certain flie was fo robuft, that 

 ^ ' _ once 



