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Jemima Wilkinson and the Indian, Improved, by John Leland, is excerpted from the pamphlet A Budget of Scraps, first published in 1810. The high claims of Jemima Wilkinson (that Christ has descended the second time, and dwells in her), are generally known. Her place of residence is in the town of Jerusalem, Ontario county, and… Read more »

Self-excuse, by John Leland, is excerpted from the pamphlet A Budget of Scraps, first published in 1810. In the year 1785, there lived in the city of Richmond, (Vir.) a free negro woman, who by her parsimony obtained money enough to purchase her husband, who was a slave. The woman being a member of the… Read more »

Old They, Exposed, by John Leland, is excerpted from the pamphlet A Budget of Scraps, first published in 1810. Of all the villains that haunt the world, not one of them is more mischievous than Old They. He is generally treated as a noun of multitude, followed by a single verb, (They say,) which makes… Read more »