A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50565 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: May 17 1722 Article Description: Elizabeth, By Reason of the Confession of the Said Eleanor, Was Respited. Article Text: I, Eleanor MOORE, am brought hither to suffer for that unnatural crime, whereof I was legally convicted and justly condemned. I have endeavoured, to my great sorrow, to mitigate my great offence, by unjustly charging the fact upon another. God has been graciously pleased to stop my career and rebuke my madness in this particular: And therefore, as I render him thanks for his grace bestowed upon me, to speak the truth from my heart; so I do freely and without reserve confess, that what I laid to the charge of Elizabeth GARRETSON, at and before our tryal, she the said Elizabeth GARRETSON was not guilty of, for that she neither delivered me of the child, nor conveyed it away, nor buried it. I was delivered ('tis with great concern I speak it) out of doors, by my self, at some distence from the dwelling house of the said Elizabeth GARRETSON, near to a hog pen, and afterwards laid the child by the side of a fallen tree, being satisfied it was born alive by my hearing it once cry; from which place I removed it, and buried it my self, without the knowledge or advice of the said Elizabeth GARRETSON, she and I having no manner of discourse about the said child, or how it was disposed of, otherwise than that she would be now and then relating to me what was commonly reported amongst the neighbours about me. And I heartily ask God and the said Elizabeth pardon and forgiveness for impeaching her so grossly, and imposing upon my judges, so as to rank her in the same transgression with my self. And I beg that this my confession may be looked upon as the true and genuine sense of my soul, notwithstanding my persisting in my accusing of her in so open and presumptuous a m! anner. And I pray that this publick satisfaction which I am now to pay to justice, may be a caution to those who now surround me, and to all others who may come to the knowledge of my grievous sin and fearful punishment, to apply themselves in their youth to remember their Creator and to avoid loose company and Sabbath-breaking, which by sad experience I now find must needs end in sorrow and disgrace. By what I have said, I hope, you charitably believe I am penitent, and as such I beg your prayers for me, that I may find acceptance at the throne of divine mercy, through Him that died for my offences, and rose again for my justification, even Jesus Christ, that one Mediator between God and man; to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be Glory and honour for evermore, Amen. Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com