Extracts from the Gazette, 1733
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, June 28, 1733

We hear from Richland in Bucks County, that on the 15th Instant, Elizabeth the Wife of Marmaduke Jackson was found Dead in their own Field. The Circumstances relating to her Death are told as follows; None liv’d in the House with the old Couple, except a Child about 3 Years old which they had taken to bring up: The Man used to go out to work in the Country, and leave Home for some Days; accordingly he took leave of his Wife the 14th in the Morning about 8 o’Clock, and left her in good Health. The next Morning about the same Hour a neighbouring Woman going by, call’d in to see how they did, and found only the Child, who told her that Granny (as it used to call her) was asleep in the Field, and it could not wake her: And so it went and shewed the Place where the Woman lay dead. The Coroner’s Inquest being call’d, examin’d the Child how its Granny came to lie there, and it said, she was going to cut some Bushes to cover the Tobacco Plants; and then shewed by Motions how she staggered before she fell down; it appeared by the Grass that she had scrambled along some small Distance, and a few Strawberry’s were found lying by her, which it was suppos’d she was picking for the Child. They ask’d the Child, where it slept the last Night; and it answer’d, that it stay’d by Granny all day, but could not wake her; and when ’twas dark, it went home to bed, and came again in the Morning and try’d to wake her, but could not: Accordingly the Print of the Child alone was found in the Bed.

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