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kirby’s wonderful museum.
to marry their sisters, as we did formerly out of necessity, so
blessing God for his providence and goodness, I dismist
them. I having taught some of my children to read for-
merly, for 1 had still the Bible left, 1 chaiged it should be
read once a moueth, at a general meeting. At last one of
my wives died, being sixty-eight years of age, which I buried
in a place set out on purpose; and within a year after,
another; so 1 had none now left but my master’s daughter,
and we lived together twelve years longer—at length she died
also, so 1 buried her also next the place where I proposed
to be buried myself, and the tall maid, my first wife, next me,
on the other side, the negro without her, and the other maid
next my master’s daughter. 1 had now nothing to mind,
but the p whether I was to go, being very old, almost
eighty, I gave my cabbin and furniture that was left to my
eldest, son, alter my decease, who had married my eldest
daughter by my beloved wife, whom I made king and go-
vernour of all the rest. 1 informed them of he manners of
Europe; and charged them to remember the Christian reli-
gion, after the maimer of them that spake the same language,
and to admit no other, if hereafter any should come and find
them out.
“ And. now, once for all, I summoned them to come to
me, that 1 m ght number them, which 1 did, and found the
estimate to contain, in or about the eightieth year of my
age, and the fifty-ninth of my coming there, in all, of all
sorts, one th msand seven hundred eighty and nine. Thus
praymg God to multiply them, and send them true light of
the Gospel, I last of all dismist them : for, being now very
old, and my sight delayed, I cou'd not expect to live long.
1 gave this narrative, (written with my own hand) to my
elch st son, who now lived with me, commanding him to keep
it, and if any strangers should come hither by chance, to let
them see it, and take a copy of it, if they would, that our
name be not lost ir m off »he earth. I gave this people
(descended from me) the name of the English Pines, George
kirby’s wonderful museum.
to marry their sisters, as we did formerly out of necessity, so
blessing God for his providence and goodness, I dismist
them. I having taught some of my children to read for-
merly, for 1 had still the Bible left, 1 chaiged it should be
read once a moueth, at a general meeting. At last one of
my wives died, being sixty-eight years of age, which I buried
in a place set out on purpose; and within a year after,
another; so 1 had none now left but my master’s daughter,
and we lived together twelve years longer—at length she died
also, so 1 buried her also next the place where I proposed
to be buried myself, and the tall maid, my first wife, next me,
on the other side, the negro without her, and the other maid
next my master’s daughter. 1 had now nothing to mind,
but the p whether I was to go, being very old, almost
eighty, I gave my cabbin and furniture that was left to my
eldest, son, alter my decease, who had married my eldest
daughter by my beloved wife, whom I made king and go-
vernour of all the rest. 1 informed them of he manners of
Europe; and charged them to remember the Christian reli-
gion, after the maimer of them that spake the same language,
and to admit no other, if hereafter any should come and find
them out.
“ And. now, once for all, I summoned them to come to
me, that 1 m ght number them, which 1 did, and found the
estimate to contain, in or about the eightieth year of my
age, and the fifty-ninth of my coming there, in all, of all
sorts, one th msand seven hundred eighty and nine. Thus
praymg God to multiply them, and send them true light of
the Gospel, I last of all dismist them : for, being now very
old, and my sight delayed, I cou'd not expect to live long.
1 gave this narrative, (written with my own hand) to my
elch st son, who now lived with me, commanding him to keep
it, and if any strangers should come hither by chance, to let
them see it, and take a copy of it, if they would, that our
name be not lost ir m off »he earth. I gave this people
(descended from me) the name of the English Pines, George