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 They were buried in a place he had set aside on purpose, fixing for his own interment the middle part, so that two of his wives might lie on each side, next to him.

Arriving to the eightieth year of his age, and sixtieth of coming to this island, he called his people together a second time, the number of which amounted then to one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine: and having informed them of the manners in Europe, and charged them to remember the Christian religion, after the manner of those who spoke the same language, and to admit of no other, if they should come and find them out; and praying to God, to continue the multiplication of them, and send them the true light of his Gospel, he dismissed them.

He called this island the Isle of Pines, and gave the people descended from him, the name of the English Pines, distinguishing the tribes of the particular desendants by his wives names, the Englishes, the Sparkses, the Trevors, and the Phillis, Phillippa being the name of the negro.

Being now very old and his sight decaying, he gave his habitation and furniture that was left,