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 EORGE BARNWELL was the ſon of Mr ''Wm. Barnwell'', a very eminent and wealthy Goldſmith in Lombard ſtreet. George’s father dying whilst he was very young, he was left to the care of an uncle, who lived near London. This gentleman had a great affection for George, and having no children, treated him as his ſon, giving him a very liberal education, and when he was old enoguhenough [sic], put him apprentice to Mr Thoroughgood, a Merchant, with whom he lived three or four years, behaving himſelf in ſuch a manner, as endeared him to the whole family.

Mr Thoroughgood had an only daughter named Maria, beauteous and virtuous, and about the ſame age as Barnwell. George was tall and handſome, of a modeſt genteel deportment, and Maria was particularly ſenſible of it.