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6 unhappy companions, I never knew; it was my to be sold to one of my countrymen, whose  was Hugh Wilson, a North Britain, who  his youth undergone the same fate as  having been kidnapped from St. Johnstown, Scotland.

Happy was my lot in falling into my countryman's power, as he was, eontrarycontrary [sic] to many of his calling, a humane, worthy, honest  Having no children of his own, and commiserating my unhappy condition, he took great  of mcme [sic] until I was fit for business, and, about  12th year of my age, set me about little  in which state I continued until my 14th  when I was more fit for harder work. suehsuch [sic] my idle state, seeing my fellow-servants reading and writing, it ineitedincited [sic] in me an inelinationinclination [sic] to learn, which I intimated to my master, telling him I should be very willing to  a year longer than the contract by which I  sold, if he would indulge me in going to  this he readily agreed to, saying that winter  be the best time. It being then summer waited with impatience for the other season; b to make some progress in my design, I  Primer, and learned as much from my  servants as I could. At school, where I every winter for five years, I made a  proficiency, and have ever since been