old Gentlewoman, I mean, my Mother, died,
and how she left what she had; for my Mother had promis'd me very solemnly, that
when she died, she would do something for me, and leave it so, as that, if I was
Living, I should one way or other come at it, without its being in the Power of
her Son, my Brother and Husband to prevent it: She told me she did not know
exactly how it was order'd; but she had been told, that my Mother had left a Sum
of Money, and had tyed her Plantation for the Payment of it, to be made good to
the Daughter, if ever she could be heard of, either in England or elsewhere; and
that the Trust was left with this Son, who we saw with his Father.
    This was News too good for me to make light of, and you may be sure fill'd
my Heart with a Thousand Thoughts, what Course I should take, and in what manner
I should make myself known, or whether I should ever make myself known, or no.
    Here was a Perplexity that I had not indeed skill to manage myself in,
neither knew I what Course to take: It lay heavy upon my mind Night and Day, I
could neither Sleep or Converse, so that my Husband perceiv'd it, wonder'd what
ail'd me, and strove to divert me, but it was all to no purpose; he press'd me
to tell him what it was troubled me, but I put it off, till at last importuning
me continually, I was forc'd to form a Story, which yet had a plain Truth to lay
it upon too; I told him I was troubled because I found we must shift our
Quarters, and alter our Scheme of Settling, for that I found I should be known,
if I stay'd in that part of the Country; for that my Mother being dead, several
of my Relations were come into that Part where we then was, and that I must
either discover myself to them, which in our present Circumstances was not
proper on many Accounts, or remove, and which to do I knew not, and that this it
was that made me melancholly.
    He joyned with me in this, that it was by no means proper for me to make
myself known to any Body in the Circumstances, in which we then were; and
therefore he told me he would be willing to remove to any part of the Country,
or even