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Three Leagues from Nantes in Sight of the Loire and 

 ended his Life happy = Most Men have fauks, he had 

 one that never Left him untill sobered by a Long Life 

 common to Many Individual, but this was Counter 

 balanced by Many qualities — his Generosity was often 

 too great — as a Father I never complained of him and 

 the many Durable Friends he had prove him to have 

 been a good Man — 



[Two lines blotted out here] 

 My Mother, who I have been told was an Extra- 

 ordinary beautifull Woman, died shortly after my Birth 

 and My Father having remaried in France I was re- 

 moved thereto when only Two Years Old and receive 

 by that Best of Women, raised and cherished [by her] 

 to the utmost of her Means — My Father gave me and 

 My Sister Rosa an education appropriate to his purse. 

 I studied Mathematicks at an early Age, and had 

 many Teachers of Agreable Talents. I perhaps would 

 have much stored up, if the Continual Wars in Which 

 France Was engaged had not forced me away when 

 only Fourteen Years Old = I entered in the Navy and 

 was Rec*^ a Midshipman at Rochefort Much against 

 my Inclinations — the Short Peace of 1802 between 

 England & France ended My Military Carreer [ — ]. 

 & [but] the Conscription determined My Father on 

 sending me to America and Live on the Mill Grove 

 Farm I have mentoned above — he sent me to the 

 care of Miers Fisher, Es^"^ a rich and honest Quaker of 



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