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  6   The Fortunes and Misfortunes

with ſcorn and contempt. At length, I married a gentleman, whoſe eſtate was in Virginia, whom I deceived by  pretending I had a great fortune. He  proved to be a very good huſband, and took me over to Virginia, where I was kindly received by his mother. But here I found that my family was of the Newgate train, ſhe ſhewing me where ſhe had been burnt in the hand, bidding me not to wonder, for major B. had been an eminent pick- pocket; juſtice D. a ſhop-lifter, and Tom W. who had narrowly eſcaped the nubbing-poſt, was there metamor- phoſed into a diſſenting preacher. Here, I lived three years before I  had a child, but not without an in- ward remorſe, knowing that my ſe- cond huſband was not dead; and this ſet me upon returning to England, I  teaſing my ſpouſe for that purpoſe, who wanted to know ahe true reaſon of it; but I told his mother who came to pump me, that the ſtory ſhe told me of her being tranſported confirmed me in the belief of her being my  mother, who was delivered of me in   Newgate, by which means ſhe was