OF SAMUEL CROMPrON. 349 



The seed, as I have been often informed by 

 respectable gentlemen from the Bahamas, was 

 in the first instance procured from a small 

 Island in the West Indies, celebrated for its 

 cotton, called Anguilla. It was therefore long 

 after its introduction into this country, called 

 Anguilla seed. 



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 Cotton, as I have already stated » had taken 

 a new value by the introduction of the spinning 

 machine into England. The quality of the 

 Bahama cotton was then considered among the 

 best grown — new life and hope were imparted 

 to a colony and a people with whom even 

 hope itself had been almost extinct. This first 

 success, as is natural to the human mind under 

 whatever influence it may act, recalled the me- 

 mory of the friends they had left behind them. 

 The winter of 1786 brought several parcels 

 of cotton seed from the Bahamas to Georgia; 

 among them (in distinct remembrance upon 

 my mind) was a parcel to the governor Tatnall, 

 of Georgia, from a near relation of his, then 

 surveyor general of the Bahamas; and another 

 parcel at the same time was transmitted by Col. 

 Roger Kelsall, of Exuma, (who was among 

 the first, if nof the very first successful growers 

 of cotton) to my father Mr. James Spalding, 

 then residing on St. Simon's Island, Georgia, 



