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self and a wife, fixed to come into Ameri- 

 ca, to purchase some of those cheap and 

 fertile lands. They had been encouraged to 

 this by a letter from a brother-in-law, who 

 lived at Norfolk, telling them how well they 

 might do in America. Accordingly, they 

 raised a property of about seventeen hundred 

 pounds between them, went to London, 

 there agreed for their passage in a ship bound 

 to Norfolk, and paid two hundred guineas. 

 Just before they were ready to sail, they 

 received a letter, informing them that their 

 father was dead, — perhaps broken-hearted : 

 — and the mill he enjoyed was his own, 

 which would then descend to them. But, 

 in preference to returning to that situation, 

 having paid their passage, &c. and such 

 fine things being held out by the brother- 

 in-law, they set off* to America, and landed 

 at Norfolk. When they got there, they 

 found no land that they liked, nor had this 

 friend at Norfolk any situation for them. 

 He had got hold of the property : the chief 

 part of it was in goods ; he was to sell them, 



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