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 SKETCH

OF THE

ife and Transactions

OF

PETER BROWN,

AN ENGLISH SAILOR.

at an early period of life; run away from his fa- r's house, and went to sea; and after a long ab- ce returned home with plenty of money and va- ble jewels, which he had got by plunder. Also Account how he entered his parents' house as a anger wanting lodgings, and they not knowing n to be their son, watched till he was asleep, and in Murdered hit in the most barbarous manner the sake of his riches. Likewise an Account how w discovered next inorning that he was their own d. When they ended their lives with the same ife they had butchered him; and how his sister, ning into the room, was so overcome at the sight ſhe bloody scene, that the full suddenly down, I instantly expired.

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