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, and my poor Lancashire husband. The next day my governess sent me a sea bed, and a chest; in one drawer of which was my money; and gave me an answer to that which I sent to my husband, who hoped, though he could not go with me in the same ship. yet to see me in Virginia; but by intercession, he was afterwards put on board with us, where my money furnished us with good accommodation So we took likewise several materials with us, for the work of planting; and so we sailed from the Downs on the 13th of April, and arrived safely or the coast of Virginia, where I soon perceived my own son and my brother his father, whom I had my husband twenty years ago; but my mother had been dead some time before, having left a considerable plantation to me and my heirs.

Many were the ways I pondered on to get from the sight of my family, in these wretched circumstances; since could not bear the sight of my child my brother and husband, who live near that place I had. taken for my settlement; and upon this very account