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stores'; and so on to the thumb again。  'And now;' says he; 'a 

cargo cost #250 in England; and worth here twice the money。'  

'Well;' says I; 'what do you make of all that?'  'Make of it?' 

says he; 'why; who says I was deceived when I married a wife 

in Lancashire?  I think I have married a fortune; and a very 

good fortune too;' says he。



In a word; we were now in very considerable circumstances; 

and every year increasing; for our new plantation grew upon 

our hands insensibly; and in eight years which we lived upon 

it; we brought it to such pitch; that the produce was at least 

#300 sterling a year; I mean; worth so much in England。



After I had been a year at home again; I went over the bay to 

see my son; and to receive another year's income of my 

plantation; and I was surprised to hear; just at my landing there; 

that my old husband was dead; and had not been buried above 

a fortnight。  This; I confess; was not disagreeable news; 

because now I could appear as I was; in a married condition; 

so I told my son before I came from him; that I believed I 

should marry a gentleman who had a plantation near mine; 

and though I was legally free to marry; as to any obligation 

that was on me before; yet that I was shy of it; lest the blot 

should some time or other be revived; and it might make a 

husband uneasy。  My son; the same kind; dutiful; and obliging 

creature as ever; treated me now at his own house; paid me 

my hundred pounds; and sent me home again loaded with presents。



Some time after this; I let my son know I was married; and 

invited him over to see us; and my husband wrote a very 

obliging letter to him also; inviting him to come and see him; 

and he came accordingly some months after; and happened to 

be there just when my cargo from England came in; which I 

let him believe belonged all to my husband's estate; not to me。



It must be observed that when the old wretch my brother 

(husband) was dead; I then freely gave my husband an account 

of all that affair; and of this cousin; as I had called him before; 

being my own son by that mistaken unhappy match。  He was 

perfectly easy in the account; and told me he should have 

been as easy if the old man; as we called him; had been alive。  

'For;' said he; 'it was no fault of yours; nor of his; it was a 

mistake impossible to be prevented。'  He only reproached him 

with desiring me to conceal it; and to live with him as a wife; 

after I knew that he was my brother; that; he said; was a vile 

part。  Thus all these difficulties were made easy; and we lived 

together with the greatest kindness and comfort imaginable。



We are grown old; I am come back to England; being almost 

seventy years of age; husband sixty…eight; having performed 

much more than the limited terms of my transportation; and 

now; notwithstanding all the fatigues and all the miseries we 

have both gone through; we have both gone through; we are 

both of us in good heart and health。  My husband remained 

there some time after me to settle our affairs; and at first I had 

intended to go back to him; but at his desire I altered that 

resolution; and he is come over to England also; where we 

resolve to spend the remainder of our years in sincere penitence 

for the wicked lives we have lived。



WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1683







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The bell at St。 Sepulchre's; which tolls upon execution day。







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