“ I purchased at Virginia three saddle horses, some hogs, two cows, and many other articles, and brought them with me in the vessel. I arrived safely, and my husband was quite overjoyed at my good fortune: lifting up his hands, he cried, "I married a wife in Lancashire for a fortune, and I think she has at last proved a good fortune." We now resolved to reform our lives, and spend the remainder of our days in repentance for our crimes, by doing all the good in our power to those who stood in need of assistance. ”

“ It was my good fortune to marry a gentleman whose estates was in Virginia, and with whom I took a voyage thither, and was kindly received by my husband’s mother; but I found out that our family was of Newgate extraction, she shewing me where she was burned in the hand. Here I lived about three years, and had one child, a boy; but I grew tired of the place, and wished to return to England. I told my husband's mother, who was anxious to know why I was leaving them, that I was convinced she was my own mother, who was delivered of me in Newgate, and that my husband was my brother. ”

“ I had the good fortune to escape, and my name soon became famous among the thieves—none was so great as Moll Flanders. Soon after this affair, I stole a bundle of plate from a lady’s house that took fire, and in the confusion got clear off. Being an excellent pick pocket as well as a strumpet, I took from a cull after I had made him drunk, his gold watch and pocket book, and left him in a sound sleep. ”