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 actions he proved a most dutiful child, allotting servants to wait upon me, and treating me with as great splendor as if I had been a sovereign princess. I presented him with a gold watch, and taking my leave of him, after I had acquainted him that I intended to marry a gentleman who came over with me, I set sail in a sloop my son had provided, and came safe to my own plantations again, bringing over with me three saddles, some hogs, two cows, and a great many other things.

When I had related all this very good fortune to my husband, he lifted up his hands in an extacy of joy, and gave thanks to heaven for this sudden and so happy a change. Soon after this, arrived a cargo from England, which my governess had sent me with three women servants; which made my husband amazed, especially when I assured him that they were paid for. How, says he, was I deceived when I married a wife in Lancashire, I think I married a forfunefortune [sic], and a good fortune too.