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the spring; so I retutned to Halifax and took in a freight of dry goods, and again failed for Hawton; on our passage we struck on a reef and employed other small vessels to take her loading and carry it to Liverpool harbour and secure it; and then I informed the sundry owners of the circumstance; but I soon got my vessel off again, but it cost me one dollar an hour for each man. The cost being so much, I was obliged to fell her to defray the expences. Again I was left destitute of property.
I had by this time recovered my health, and was not willing to return empty. I immediately went to work and again obtained the same vessel by honest industry. My next business was to follow coasting, but late in the fall I landed at Salem and was taken very sick; I lay there some weeks when I recovered, and returned to my family after an absence of four years, In which time I had not heard from them. I had very little property and my family had been turned out of doors on account of placing confidence in those that I took to be my friends, but by unjust dealing they took hundreds of dollars of my property. When I went from home, I owed John Cordy at Lime, one hundred dollars, Nathaniel Peck of Lime owed me one hundred dollars; he gave me a note; I gave that note to John Cordy to pay that debt. Nathaniel Peck went to sea aid died. John Cordy administer upon Nathaniel
