A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=53035 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: New England Weekly Journal Article Date: September 9 1735 Article Description: Woman Arrested For Burying Her Bastard Child in an Orchard. Article Text: Philadelphia, August 28. We hear from Providence in this County, that a young woman about 19 years of age, is now under confinement for concealing the birth of her bastard child, and burying it in the orchard. It sees her Master and Mistress has suspected her being with child, but she constantly deny'd it, and they being from home on the 4th instant, she was delivered by her self, and bury'd the child about 9 inches under ground. After this, the Mistress observing her to appear smaller put it close to her that she had been delivered of a child, but she would own nothing, till ten days after, when she confess'd the whole. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com Also visit our other sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com http://www.AutumnWindz.com