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Sr. Ismajah Burnet's
Account of her Life, as given by her
self, according to Request, in the Year 1760
I was born in Old England in a Village called
Clutton, seven Miles from West Chester in Cheshire,
on the 5th of August in the year 1696. My
Parents both dying when i was young, particularly
my father, and it may be I might not be about
five or six years when my Mother dyed, I was left
in the Hands of my fathers Uncle, who was a
Man of pretty large Estate. My youngest
Brother and me were put to board with a good
old Widow, one of his Tenants, and let her have
Field and a Cow, for to give us Milk. We was
put to School to read and write: where I re-
main'd as I have heard, till I was about eleven
years old. my father's uncle dying, we fell
into the Hands of two of his Brothers Sons, who
had both my Uncle's & my Father's Estate in
their Hands. By all Accounts they did us much
Injustice. About eleven years old I was sent
for to a Town called Middewich, which I was
put to Prentice to learn to sow. Here I was not
used well, but I remember, I used to say, I shall
do well. At last before my three years was out
that