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serviceable fellow, and the mother, besides having 

 brought up three children of her own, had the 

 additional merit of having reared an infant whose 

 own mother had died in child-bed, I broke through 

 the rule of only christening those myself who 

 should be born since my coming to Jamaica, and 

 granted his request. By good luck, the first child 

 to be named was the offspring of Minerva and 

 Captain ; so I told the parents that as it would be 

 highly proper to call the boy after the greatest 

 Captain that the world could produce, he should 

 be named Wellington ; and that I hoped that he 

 would grow up to serve me in Jamaica as well 

 as the Duke of Wellington had served his massa, 

 the King of England, in Europe. The Duke of 

 Sully's child I wanted to call Navarre ; but the 

 father had brought over a free negro from Savannah 

 la Mar to stand godfather, who was his Jidus 

 Achates, by the name of John Davies, and I found 

 that he had set his heart upon calling the boy John 

 Lewis, after his friend and myself ; so John Lewis 

 he was. 



There ought to have been a third child, born 

 at seven months, whom the graundee had reared 

 with great difficulty, and dismissed, quite strong, 

 from the hospital ; the mother had taken great 

 care of it till the tenth day, when she was en- 

 titled to an allowance of clothes, provisions, &c. ; 

 but no sooner had she received her reward, than on 

 that very night she suffered the child to remain so 



