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Pre, the principal planter, to whom my 

 friend at St. Malccs had recommended me : 

 he read the letter, wanted a clerk himfelf; 

 and allured me he (hould be happy in 

 obliging his friend, by taking me himfelf. 



" I prefently entered on my new office^ 

 which at firft confifted of nothing but tranf- 

 cribing j but the diligence and activity with 

 which I entered every thing, both in and out 

 of theline of my employment, made my matter 

 entruft me much more than ufual. By de- 

 grees I wrote feveral letters for him to fign, 

 and pleafed him fo well, that he threw his 

 whole correfpondence on me, and finding 

 the readinefs with which I accepted all the 

 bufmefs he wanted me to perform, he every 

 day increafed it, and raifed my falary far 

 more than I had any reafon to expect; fo 

 that, by the time I had been three years 

 with him, I had fuch an allowance as 

 enabled me to lay bye 50!. a year, and I 

 had nearly the whole direction of his plan- 

 tation on me. His other clerks and ma- 

 nagers were fo backward and dilatory, that 

 it is no wonder I got the ftart of them ; for, 

 giving the moil indefatigable attention to 

 the whole bufincfs, I prefently made my- 

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