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Domestic News May 31, 1827

The Litchfield County Post

Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut

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Two exceptionally large children born in Dutchess County are being exhibited in New York: the elder, a 3-year-9-month-old girl weighing 165 pounds, and the younger, a 9-month-old weighing 45 pounds, both healthy and playful.

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There are two children, born in Dutchess county, now exhibiting in New-York, says a correspondent of the Times, compared to whom the Irish giant is a baby. The eldest is three years and nine months old, fine complexion, with a beautiful head of hair, and manifests all the playfulness and elasticity of a healthy child at that age. She is just learning the use of the needle, and finds it difficult to bring her fat hands together. She weighs 165 pounds, measures just four feet in circumference round the waist, and two feet immediately above the knee joint. The youngest daughter is nine months old, and weighs forty-five pounds, and bids fair to overtake her sister.

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New York

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New York

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Two children born in Dutchess county are exhibiting in New-York. The eldest, three years and nine months old, weighs 165 pounds, measures four feet around the waist and two feet above the knee, has a fine complexion, beautiful hair, and is playful while learning needle use but struggles with fat hands. The youngest, nine months old, weighs forty-five pounds and is expected to surpass her sister.

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