The Virginia Gazette

On Thursday a very extraordinary affair happened at a certain hospital; two women, one of whom had the appearance of a nurse, the other of a maid-servant, applied to the committee to let them have a male child, the youngest in the hospital, for their Lady, who wanted to adopt one for her own. On the committee's close examining the women, they confessed that the Lady's husband was gone abroad, and as she told him before he went she believed she was pregnant, therefore it was necessary on his return to show him a child; they acknowledged the Lady came from the Isle of Wight, to London, to lie in. It is probable the intended adoption of this child was to deprive some heir at law of an estate, or some other unlawful purpose.