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meadows two or three miles in length, that had ever been 

 seen in that quarter of the world. He there lived the re- 

 mainder of his life, in the style of a gentleman farmer; or, I 

 should rather have said, of an English country gentleman. 

 He kept many servants, white and black; several hunters; 

 a plentiful but plain table, entirely in the English fashion; 

 and his mansion was the mansion of hospitality. His 

 dress corresponded with his mode of life, and, notwithstand- 

 ing he had every year new suits of clothes, of the most 

 fashionable and expensive kind, sent out to him from Eng- 

 land, which he never put on, was plain in the extreme. His 

 manners were humble, modest, and unaffected; not tinctured 

 in the smallest degree with arrogance, pride, or self-conceit. 

 He was free from the selfish passions, and liberal almost 

 to excess. The produce of his farms, after the deduction 

 of what was necessary for the consumption of his own 

 family, was distributed and given away to the poor planters 

 and settlers in his neighborhood. -To these he frequently 

 advanced money, to enable them to go on with their im- 

 provements; to clear away the woods, and cultivate the 

 ground; and where the lands proved unfavourable, and not 

 likely to answer the labour and expectation of the planter 

 or husbandman, he usually indemnified him for the ex- 

 pense he had been at in the attempt, and gratuitously 

 granted him fresh lands of a more favourable and promis- 

 ing nature. He was a friend and a father to all who held 

 and lived under him; and as the great object of his ambi- 

 tion was the peopling and cultivating of that fine and beau- 

 tiful country, of which he was the proprietor, he sacrificed 

 every other pursuit, and made every other consideration 

 subordinate, to this great point. 



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