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 governess, and to my poor Lancashire husband. The next day my governess brought 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 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 the 13th of April, and arrived safely on the coast of Virginia, where I soon perceived my own son, and my brother, his father, whom I had made 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 those wretched circumstances; since I could not bear the sight of my child, my brother, and husband, who lived near that place I had taken for my settlement; and upon this very account