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 ( 4 ) tained in their tickets, viz, labfters. partans, podles fpout fifh, fea, fea a dogs, flukes, pikes, dike- pad- docks. and p—fifh. Among thefe people were faid to be one Tom and his twa fons, who were fifhers on the coaft of Noraway and in a violent ftorm were blown over, and got a- fhore to Bucky-harbour, where they fettled, and the whole of his children were called the Thomfons, this is an hiftorical faying, handed down from one generation to anahter. So in courfe of time they grew up and multiplied, that they foon became a little town by thamfelves : few or any other name dwelt amongft them and were all called the Thomfons ; they kept but little communication with the country people for a farmer in thofe days thought his daughter caft away, if fhe married one of the fiflters in Bucky- harbour and Witty Eppte the ale wife, wad a fworn

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