Recovering from her expected illness, she once more commenced toil for herself and child, in a room obtained of a poor woman, but with better fortune.

One so well known would not be wholly neglected.

Kind friends watched her when Samuel was from home, prevented her from suffering, and when the cold weather pinched the warmly clad, a kind friend took them in, and thus preserved them.

At last Samuel's business became very engrossing, and after long desertion, news reached his family that he had become a victim of yellow fever, in New Orleans.
So much toil as was necessary to sustain Frado, was more than she could endure.

As soon as her babe could be nourished without his mother, she left him in charge of a Mrs.Capon, and procured an agency, hoping to recruit her health, and gain an easier livelihood for herself and child.
This afforded her better maintenance than she had yet found.