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some service. Having accomplished this, 

 I next thought it would be doing a grateful 

 thing to my family, to produce a recon- 

 ciliation between my father and my bro- 

 ther. I therefore told the latter, that if 

 he would go to England to see my father, 

 I would remain in Carolina till his return, 

 for the purpose of managing his affairs 

 there. He readily accepted of my pro- 

 posal, and I in consequence became a 

 printer, a bookseller, and a merchant. I 

 had previously become an officer of vo- 

 lunteers, and had been entrusted by some 

 of my father's friends in England, with the 

 management of affairs in Carolina of con- 

 siderable importance. All these concerns 

 might have been supposed sufficient to 

 occupy the time and attention of a young 

 man of twenty-four (practically unac- 

 quainted with any other employment be- 

 sides that, which arose out of his parti- 

 cular profession). But some insubordina- 

 tion having been shown by a company 



