Moll and James arrived in Virginia. The captain found a planter to buy the couple as servants. They all had a drink together, and the planter gave them certificates of dischargethey were now free to do what they wanted. Moll secretly inquired after her mother, former husband and her son. A local woman told her that the old woman (Moll's mother) was dead, and she took Moll to see the place where her husband and son live. Moll saw her son from afar and she was overcome with emotion. She struggled to think of a way that she could make herself known to her son and to get access to whatever her mother left for her when she died without James finding out. She did not want him to know of her marriage.....
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