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to carry along with me all that was dear to me in the
world. ...Providence has been very favorable to us. ....
Dear sir, I have said so much about my industry and
labor upon the plantation, but I have said it upon
purpose, because I know that a vile and false report
hath been published at home, that it is only lazy
persons who come over here. Now you know well,
and I need not tell you, that the very contrary is true;
the lazy are motionless, and, like snails, abide on the
spot where they are, until they either starve or are
compelled by hunger to go a begging; whereas the
industrious strive to maintain themselves by their
labor without being troublesome to any body and
many of them finding it difficult by their labor at
home, they are so far from being lazy that they have
activity and spirit to venture over to America....
...My flock of cattle is not hitherto very great;
however I have enough horses and I have cows and
hogs and sheep and by proper care they will soon
multiply. I did not think it prudent to exhaust too
much of my stock in buying cattle all at once; for as I
have many children I design to purchase more land
for them....
Till I came to this country...I could not image the
climate was so fine and healthy. ...One would think
the sky is much further distant from us than it seems