Extracts from the Gazette, 1729
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, October 16, 1729

And sometime last Week, we are informed, that one Piles a Fidler, with his Wife, were overset in a Canoo near Newtown Creek. The good Man, ’tis said, prudently secur’d his Fiddle, and let his Wife go to the Bottom.

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