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15 from Jacob's well. His maritime employment terminated in 1710 when he was married to one of his countrywomen, and settled in the town of his nativity. But little is known concerning him daring several years of this part of his life, excepting that he appears to have taken an interest in some of the public topics and controversies, by which the close of the seventeenth, and commencement of the eighteenth centuries, were distinguished. Fie presented, in person, to George the First, and Second, a copy of, John Milton's pamphlet, entitled "Considerations touching the likeliest means to remove, hirelings out of the Church;" and on the occasion of the last of these interviews; he was admitted to a private audience of the royal