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widow, with a sufficient maintenance to herself for her care; all which
she richly deserved, for no mother could have taken more care in their
education, or understood it better; and as she lived till I came home,
T also lived to thank her for it. Te

My nephew was ready to sail about the beginning, of January,
1694-5, and I, with my man Friday, went on board in the: Downs the
eighth, having, besides that sloop which I mentioned above, &- ery.
considerable cargo of all kinds of necessary things for my. te
which, if I did not find in good condition, I resolved to leave so. \

First, I carried with me some servants, whom I purposed to lake
there as inhabitants, or at least to set on work there upon my own *
account while I stayed, and either to leave them there, or carry them |
forward, as they should appear willing; particularly, I carried two
carpenters, a smith, and a very handy, ingenious. fellow, who was
a cooper by trade, but was also a general mechanic; for he was dex-
terous at making wheels and hand-mills to grind corn, was a good
turner, and a good pot-maker; he also made any thing that was pro-
per to make of earth or of wood: in a word, we called him our Jack
of all trades.

With these, I carried a tailor, who had offered himself to go passen-
ger to the East Indies with my nephew, but afterwards consented to
stay on our new plantation, and proved a most necessary handy fel-
low as could be desired, in many other businesses besides that of his
trade; for, as I observed formerly, necessity arms us for all employ-
ments.

My cargo, as near as I can recollect, for I have not kept an account
of the particulars, consisted of a sufficient quantity of linen, and
some thin English stuffs for clothing the Spaniards that I expected to
find there, and enough of them as, by my calculation, might comfort-
ably supply them for seven years. If I remember right, the mate-
rials which I carried for clothing them, with gloves, hats, shoes, stock-
ings, and all such things as they could want for wearing, ‘mounted
to above two hundred pounds, including some beds, bedding, aa Bnd ©
household stuff, particularly kitchen utensils, with pots, kettles pews
ter, brass, &c., besides near a hundred pounds more in ironwork, nails,
tools of every kind, staples, hooks, hinges, and every necessary ‘thing ~
I could think of. we

I carried also a hundred spare arms, muskets, and: fnsay besides
some pistols, a considerable quantity of shot of all sizes, three.dr four
tons of lead, and two pieces of brass cannon; and because I knew not
what time and what extremities I was providing for, I carried a bun-. -_
dred barrels of powder, besides swords, cutlasses, and the iren part of