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Account of the Life and extraordinary Adventures oj
Hannah Snell, with her Portrait.
If, in the course of the following narrative, the reader should meet with
circumstance's which appear to trespass on the limits of credibility, we
trust he will not impute it to any desire on our part to mislead. The parti-
culars here recorded are compiled from the most authentic materials that
could be procured, and each is at liberty to attach that degree of credit to
them which he may think they deserve.
Hannah snell was born in Fryers Street, in the
city of Worcester, on the 23d of April 1723. Her grand-
father embracing the military profession, served under
William HL and Queen Anne, and terminated his career
at the battle of Malplaquet, where he received a mortal
wound.—Her father was a hosier and dyer, and had a fa-
mily of three sons and six daughters, of whom our
heroine was the youngest but one.
In the year 1740, having lost her father and mother,
Hannah removed to London, where she for some time re-
sided with one of her sisters, married to a Mr. Gray, car-
penter, in Ship Street, Wapping. Soon after her arrival
in the metropolis, she became acquainted with a Dutch
seaman, named James Summs, who paid his addresses to
her, and they were married on the 6th of January, 1743.
It was not long, however, before she found herself mise-
rably deceived in the opinion she had formed of her hus-
band. He abandoned her company for that of women
of the lowest description, -with whom he squandered the
little
430 ACCOUNT or THE LIFE OF HANNAH SNELL.
Acres, whence it is presumed that Pedlars’ Acre was s®
called only to distinguish it from the others; but the
conjecture is certainly strained, and far-fetched. At the
Royal Circus, St. George’s Fields, has recently been
produced, an excellent pantomine onthis story, in which
the subject is founded entirely on the traditional ac-
count.
Hannah Snell, with her Portrait.
If, in the course of the following narrative, the reader should meet with
circumstance's which appear to trespass on the limits of credibility, we
trust he will not impute it to any desire on our part to mislead. The parti-
culars here recorded are compiled from the most authentic materials that
could be procured, and each is at liberty to attach that degree of credit to
them which he may think they deserve.
Hannah snell was born in Fryers Street, in the
city of Worcester, on the 23d of April 1723. Her grand-
father embracing the military profession, served under
William HL and Queen Anne, and terminated his career
at the battle of Malplaquet, where he received a mortal
wound.—Her father was a hosier and dyer, and had a fa-
mily of three sons and six daughters, of whom our
heroine was the youngest but one.
In the year 1740, having lost her father and mother,
Hannah removed to London, where she for some time re-
sided with one of her sisters, married to a Mr. Gray, car-
penter, in Ship Street, Wapping. Soon after her arrival
in the metropolis, she became acquainted with a Dutch
seaman, named James Summs, who paid his addresses to
her, and they were married on the 6th of January, 1743.
It was not long, however, before she found herself mise-
rably deceived in the opinion she had formed of her hus-
band. He abandoned her company for that of women
of the lowest description, -with whom he squandered the
little
430 ACCOUNT or THE LIFE OF HANNAH SNELL.
Acres, whence it is presumed that Pedlars’ Acre was s®
called only to distinguish it from the others; but the
conjecture is certainly strained, and far-fetched. At the
Royal Circus, St. George’s Fields, has recently been
produced, an excellent pantomine onthis story, in which
the subject is founded entirely on the traditional ac-
count.