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but to settle my self there for the Remainder of my Life

I wrote to my Partner, acknowledging his Industry in the Improving the Plantation, and his Integrity in encreasing the Stock of the Works, giving him Instructions for his future Government of my Part, according to the Powers I had left with my old Patron, to whom I desir’d him to send whatever became due to […]

this was not the main thing that kept me from going to the Brasils

I had once a Mind to have gone to the Brasils, and have settled my self there; for I was, as it were, naturaliz’d to the Place; but I had some little Scruple in my Mind about Religion, which insensibly drew me back, of which I shall say more presently. However, it was not Religion […]

the same Ships which brought my Letters

I was now to consider which Way to steer my Course next, and what to do with the Estate that Providence had thus put into my Hands; and indeed I had more Care upon my Head now, than I had in my silent State of Life in the Island, where I wanted nothing but what […]

being for six Years

Never any Thing was more honourable, than the Proceedings upon this Procuration; for in less than seven Months, I receiv’d a large Packet from the Survivors of my Trustees the Merchants, for whose Account I went to Sea, in which were the following particular Letters and Papers enclos’d. First, There was the Account Current of […]

for six or eight of the first Years of Profits

But, says the old Man, I have one Piece of News to tell you, which perhaps may not be so acceptable to you as the rest, and that is, That believing you were lost, and all the World believing so also, your Partner and Trustees did offer to accompt to me in your Name, for […]