

YEAR'S RESIDENCE, 



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INTRODUCTION TO THE JOURNAL, 



Philadelphia, 30th Sept. 1818. 



853. IT seems necessary, by way of Intro 

 duction 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, 1 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 gene 

 rally about 40 apprentices. By this business, 

 pursued with incessant application, I had ac- 



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