almost out of sight going to
sea. My son died of the scurvy on this voyage, and Church has never
yet paid me the least of his wages. In my son, besides the loss of
his life, I lost equal to seventy-five pounds.

My other son being but a youth, still lived with me. About this time
I chartered a sloop of about thirty tons burthen, and hired men to
assist me in navigating her. I employed her mostly in the wood trade
to Rhode-Island, and made clear of all expenses above one hundred
dollars with her in better than one year. I had then become something
forehanded, and being in my forty-fourth year, I purchased my wife
Meg, and thereby prevented having another child to buy, as she was
then pregnant. I gave forty pounds for her.

During my residence at Long-Island, I raised one year with another,
ten cart loads of water-melons, and lost a great many every year
besides by the thievishness of the sailors. What I made by the water-
melons I sold there, amounted to nearly five hundred dollars. Various
other methods I in order to enable me to redeem my family. In the
night-time I fished with set-nets and pots for eels and lobsters, and
shortly after went a whaling voyage in the service of Col. Smith.
After being seven months, the vessel returned, laden with four hundred
barrels of oil. About this time, I became possessed of another
dwelling-house, and my temporal affairs were in a pretty prosperous
condition. This and my industry was what alone saved me from being
expelled that part of the island in which I resided, as an act was
passed by the select-men of the place, that all negroes residing there
should be expelled.

Next after my wife, I purchased a negro man for four hundred dollars.
But he having an inclination to return to his old master, I therefore
let him go. Shortly after I purchased another negro man for twenty-
five pounds, who I parted with shortly after.

Being about forty-six years old, I bought my oldest child Hannah, of
Ray Mumford, for forty-four pounds, and she still resided with him. I
had already redeemed from slavery, myself, my wife and three children,
besides three negro men.

About the forty-seventh year of my life, I disposed all my property at
Long-Island, and came from thence into East-Haddam. I hired myself
out at first to Timothy Chapman, for five weeks, the earnings of which
time I put carefully by me. After this I wrought for Abel Bingham
about six weeks. I then put my money tog