Here is When you hope for a Fat Wife

[Gypsy Heart]

The Pine-Tree Shilling. This is a fac-simile of the first money coined in America. The mint-master, who was allowed to take fifteen pence out of every twenty shillings, for his trouble in coining, made a large fortune by it. Henry Sewall, the founder of Newbury, in Massachusetts, married his only daughter, a girl of eighteen years. When the wedding ceremony was ended, a large pair of scales was brought out and suspended. In one disk the blushing bride was placed, and "pine tree shillings," as the coin was called, were poured into the other until there was an equiposie. The money was then handed to Mr. Sewall as his wife's dowry, amounting to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. There are a few pieces of this money still in existence.

 

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[warsawdaddy]

I've got half of it.I got the fat wife,with bowlegs!She's so bowlegged there is no way in h--l she could pin a hog in a ditch.It would take the Titanic to counter-balance her on a scale.That girl married me on the 21st day after we met,so I don't look for it to last much longer.That was just in 1958.'Gads,has it been 48yrs already?

 

[BuckleBoy]

Great story! I guess if he'd know they were gonna do that he'd have tried to fatten her up a bit! Or slip a little lead in her bustier! If the practice were still going on today, I guess we could look forward to only a hundred or so in CLAD. LOL.

 

[l.cutler]

As a side note, Sewall later became Judge Sewall. He was the judge during the famous witch trials in Salem.

 

[RaptorSE]

Cool story !

It disturbed me for 3 readings through, until I realized Sewall did not marry his own daughter.
The way it reads, it had me questioning for a few minutes LOL.

Too tired.