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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 child 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