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INTRODUCTION TO THE JOURNAL. 



Philadelphia, loth Sept., 1818. 



853. IT seems necessary, by way of Introduction to the following 

 Journal, to say some little matter respecting the author of it, and 

 also respecting his motives for wishing it to be published. 



854. As to the first, I am an Englishman by birth and parentage ; 

 and am of the county of Lancaster. I was bred and brought up at 

 farming work, and became an apprentice to the business of 

 Bleacher, at the age of 14 years. My own industry made me a 

 master-bleacher, in which state I lived many years at Great 

 Lever, near Bolton, where I employed about 140 men, women, 

 and children, and had generally about 40 apprentices. By this 

 business, pursued with incessant application, I had acquired, 

 several years ago, property to an amount sufficient to satisfy any 

 man of moderate desires. 



855. But, along with my money my children had come and had 

 gone on increasing to the number of nine. New duties now arose, 

 and demanded my best attention. It was not sufficient that I was 

 likely to have a decent fortune for each child. I was bound to 

 provide, if possible, against my children being stripped of what 

 I had earned for them. I, therefore, looked seriously at the 

 situation of England ; and, I saw, that the incomes of my children 



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