ber descended from me by these four
Women, of my Children, Grand-children, and great Grand-children, five
hundred sixty five of both sorts, I took off the Males of one Family,
and married them to the Females of another, not letting any 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 formerly, for I had left still the Bible, I charged it
should be read once a moneth at {{15 }} 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 I had
none now left but my Masters Daughter, and we lived together twelve
years longer, at length she died also, so I buried her also next the
place where I purposed to be buried my self, and the tall Maid my first
Wife next me on the other side, the Negro next without her, and the
other Maid next my Masters Daughter. I had now nothing to mind, but the
place whether I was to go, being very old, almost eighty years, I gave
my Cabin and Furniture that was left to my eldest son after my decease,
who had married my eldest Daughter by my beloved [70]Wife, whom I made
King and Governour of all the rest: I informed them of the Manners of
Europe, and charged them to remember the Christian Religion, after the
manner 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 I might number
them, which I 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 thousand seven hundred eighty and nine. Thus
praying God to multiply them, and lend them the true light of the
Gospel, I last of all dismist them: For, being now very old, and my
sight decayed, I could not expect to live long. I gave this Narration
(written with my own hand) to my eldest 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 from off the earth. I gave this people (descended
from me) the name of the ENGLISH PINES, George Pine being my {{16 }}
name, and my Masters Daughters name Sarah English, my two other Wives
were Mary Sparkes, and Elizabeth Trevor, so their severall Defendants
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