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 Wife, he had it put into Breeches, as a Boy, pretending 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 he did not know any Relation of his that had uch a Child, he employ’d a Friend to enquire further into it; this Peron by talking with the Child, found it to be a Girl, dicovered that the Servant-Maid was its Mother, and that the Husband till kept up his Correpondence with her.

Upon this Intelligence, the Wife being unwilling that her Children’s Money hould go towards the Maintenance of Batards, topped 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 oon found the bad Effect of it, for by Degrees lot his Practice, o that he aw plainly he could not live there, therefore he thought of removing, and turning what Effects he had into ready Money; he goes to Cork, and there with his Maid and Daughter embarques for Carolina.

At firt he followed the Practice of the Law in that Province, but afterwards fell into Merchandize, which proved more uccesful to him, for he gained by it ufficient to purchae a coniderable Plantation: His Maid, who paed for his Wife, happened to dye, after which his Daughter, our Anne Bonny, now grown up, kept his Houe.

She was of a fierce and couragious Temper, wherefore, when he lay under Condemnation, everal Stories were reported of her, much to her Diadvantage, as that he had kill’d an Englih Servant-Maid once in her Paion with a Cae-Knife, while he look’d after her Father’s Houe; but upon further Enquiry, I found this Story to be groundles: It was certain he was o robut, that once