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 low, Captain Abraham Pannell Commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and ome other parts. When I came back, I reolved to ettle in London; to which Mr. Bates, my Mater, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended to everal Patients. I took part of a mall Houe in the Old Jury; and being advied to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, econd Daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton Hoier, in Newgate-Street, with whom I received four hundred Pounds for a Portion.

, my good Mater Bates dying in two Years after, and I having few Friends, my Buines began to fail; for my Concience would not uffer me to imitate the bad Practice of too many among my Brethren. Having therefore conulted with my wife, and ome of my Acquaintance, I determined to go again to Sea. I was Surgeon ucceively in two Ships. and made everal Voyages, for ix Years,