The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Scotland to his friend in Virginia.

We have a curious circumstance here of a soldier lass, who dressed herself in men's clothes, and waited on a gentleman as a servant, one year; but her master having occasion to go near where her relations lived, she was afraid of being discovered--left him and enlisted in the army, where she served eight years, without being discovered, until she was wounded, when she was discharged the service, and has a pension of 12l. a year during her life, for the services she has rendered her country. She still wears men's clothes.

I will now tell you of two young women who had been disappointed in marriage, and being intimate, they revealed their minds to each other, and resolved to live as man and wife, in some place where they were not known. They drew lots to decide who should be the man, the one it fell on assumed the name of James Han. They then set out on their journey, and at last came to Epping--leased a house there, and kept an inn. James Han was sixteen and his pretended wife seventeen years old. They had a servant, but each performed the duties belonging to their station. They traded honestly, gained a good deal of money, were well respected, and lived together 34 years, until at last the wife died, about which time the discovery was made. James Han served in all the offices of the place, except constable, and had been often Foreman of Juries, and was to have been Church Warden. if the discovery had not been made.