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i Susanna Burger was Born in the year 1696 the 24
day of march
at Staten island: my fa-
thers was and Motters  Mothers name was nathan
and
Catherin Burger Whittman: my father was a farmer
of a honest and Sober [?], and Lived in good be-
d A:
my Dear Mother died when i was 4 year
and 3 months ould  old: my father took his mother
home and She took Care of me untill  until i was 
Eight years Eight years old, and then my fatter  father
married again, and then my grand mother had no
more Liberty to take Care of me, as She had
before. When i was Eighteen years old i
was married to Elias Burger in the year 1714,
by Whom i have had 7 Sons and 4 daughters
and when i had been marred 3 months i was
Baptised as my father was not Bapti a Bap
tist
i was not Baptisd in my infancy: my 
husband and i Came to newyork that i Should
recieve the holy Baptism we went to my hus-
bands Cussins  Cousins house, they askd me: what minis-
ter i would have? i Saide  Said a English prispe
terian
 presbyterian minister; and When the minister Came

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