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 proved a very good husband, and prevailed with me to go over with him into Virginia, where I was kindly received by my husband's mother. But here I found that our family was of the Newgate train, she showing me where she was burnt in the hand, bidding me not wonder; for that mayor was an eminent pick-pocket, Justice Br was a shop-lifter, and Tom Wr who had so narrowly escaped the nubbing post, was there become an excellent dissenting teacher.

Here I lived about three years without having children, but not without an inward remorse, as knowing my second husband was not dead. And this set me upon returning again into England, teazing my spouse for that purpose, who wanted to know very much the true reason of it. But I told his mother who came to pump me, that her story she had told me of his being transported, confirmed me in the belief she was my mother, who was delivered of me in Newgate, and by which means she was saved from the gallows. This very much surprised her, but dreading the thoughts of having another child by my husband, I was