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 Dear mother, are you ſtill alive? and thereupon, both of us burſt into tears of joy. He ſoon after told me, that his fa- ther had not been right in his ſenſes for a conſiderable ſeaſon, and that he had broke open the letter, and ſoon learn'd who had ſent it; and that the plantation that his grandmother had left me, was in his poſſion, and of the produce thereof, he gave me an hundred pounds, promiſing to be a faithful factor. And indeed, in all his actons, he proved a tender and a very dutiful child, allotting ſervants to take care of me, and treating me as I had been a princeſs. I preſented him a gold watch, and taking leave of him, after I had ac- quainted him that I intended to marry a gentleman that had come over with me, I ſet ſail in a ſloop that my ſon had provided, and landed ſafe at our plan- tation, bringing over three horſes with harneſs and ſadles three cows, ſeveral hogs, and other implements for husbandry When I had related all this good fortune to my husband, he lifted up