Ere a year had elapsed from the time of their marriage, Mrs.Morton presented her husband with a lovely daughter, who seemed to knit their hearts still closer together.

This child they named Jane; and before the expiration of the second year, they were blessed with another daughter, whom they named Adrika.
These children grew up to the ages of ten and eleven, and were then sent to the North to finish their education, and receive that refinement which young ladies cannot obtain in the Slave States..