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 I had taken care to buy those things for my husband, which I knew he took a delight to wear; as two good long wigs, two silver hilted swords three or four side fowling pieces a fine saddle with holsters and pistols very handsome with a scarlet cloak; and in one word every thing I could think on that might possibly oblige him and to make him appear (as he really was) a very fine gentleman, I must not omit informing my readers that one of the wenches my governess had sent he happened to come double, having been got with shildchild [sic] by one of the seamen in the ship, as she owned afterwards, before the ship got as far as Gravesend: so she brought us a fine boy about seven months after our landing.

After my brother's (or former husband’s) death, my son visited us where my dear husband made him most exceeding welcome; and truly no person could be blessed with a more dutiful child. In this happy manner we lived for the space of 20 years, resolving to spend the remainder of our days in a sincere penitence for our wicked lives we had lived. And this we shall do