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they look'd upon me with an ill afpect, not judging me 

 worthy to receive thanks for the Service I had done in 

 your parts ; nor as much as ask me whether I wanted 

 Money to bare my Expence, or a Horle to carry me 

 home. But I was forc'd for want of Money (being far 

 from friends) to go to Roxbury on foot; but meeting there 

 with a Rhode-IJland Gentleman, acquainted him of my 

 wants, who tendered me Ten Pounds, 131 whereby I was 

 accommodated for my Journey home: And being come 

 home, I went to the Minifter of our Town, 138 and gave him 

 an account of the tranfactions of the great affairs I had 

 been imploy'd in, and of the great [78] favour God was 

 pleated to fhew me, and my Company, and the benefit I 



He doubtlefs refers to Mr. Bray- 

 ton [note 134, ante], but he ftates the 

 amount of the loan differently from his 

 former account of it. 



i 3S Samuel Lee was born in London, 

 1625 ; the fon of Samuel, who was a 

 merchant of large eftate ; took M. A. at 

 Oxford, 1640; had a Wadham fellow- 

 ship, and, in 1656, was Pro<5tor, and 

 Lecturer at Great St. Helen's, London ; 

 in 1677 was alfociated with Theophilus 

 Gale, in Holborn ; in 1679 was fettled 

 at Bignal, near Bicefter, in Oxfordihire ; 

 was afterwards at Newington Green, 

 near London ; in the i'ummer of 16S6, 

 he landed here; went foon to Briftol, 

 R.-L, and became paftor of the church 

 at its organization, 8 May, 1687; in 

 1691, moved by the hope of better times 

 under William and Mary in England 

 rhan he had left there, and greatly 

 to the regret of his people and of the 



miniftry and churches who knew him 

 here, he failed for England on the Dol- 

 phin ; was captured by a French priva- 

 teer and carried into St. Malo, where 

 he died of prifon fever, leaving a wife 

 and daughter, and was buried outfide 

 the walls as a heretic. Cotton Mather 

 faid of him, " It muft be granted that 

 hardly ever a more univerfally learned 

 perfon trod the American ftrand." He 

 left a dozen or more volumes of printed 

 works. While in Briftol, he lived on 

 the eaft fide of Thames St. (which was 

 then the Ihore of the harbor), a ftiort 

 diftance north of the "Old Walley 

 houfe." His houfe was afterwards the 

 refidence of Jeremiah Finney, and of 

 his fon Joliah. [Sprague's Annals, i: 

 209 ; Palmer's Calamy's Nonconform i/l's 

 Memorial, i : 95 ; Wood's Ath. Oxon. ii : 

 882, 883 ; Shepard's Difcourfes at Brif- 

 tol, R.-L, pp. 11, 50.] 



