m he should go there, for he was a
very good-natured man, and would assist him; then calling to the black,
he bid him show the poor man to the governor's. As they were going
along, he informed himself of the black what countryman the governor was;
and being told a Welshman, and his name Thomas, he took care to make his
advantage of it. When he came to the governor's and inquired for him, he
was told he was walking in the garden; while he was waiting for his
coming out, in came the proprietor and his brother; and, going into the
garden, they represented his case to the governor, who, coming in,
inquired where he was born, &c.; he told him, as he had before done the
proprietor, and added, that he had married Betty Larkey, parson Griffy's
maid, of Wales, and that the parson had a son at Bishop's Nympton, in
Devon: the governor replied he knew the parson very well, and likewise
Betty Larkey; and after he had asked him some questions about them, which
Mr. Carew answered very readily, he gave him two guineas.

In this manner did he apply to the most of the principal merchants of
Philadelphia, always suiting some circumstances of his story in
particular to the person he applied to; which he did, by diligently
inquiring what places they came from in England, who were their friends
and acquaintance, and the like, which he knew how to suit most to his
purpose.

Captain Read being now ready to sail, and Mr. Carew having a curiosity of
seeing more of the country, he thought proper to leave Philadelphia
without taking leave of any of his good friends there. From this place
he went into Buckingham county, where he inquired for one George Boon, a
justice of the peace in that county, who formerly lived at Bradnich, in
Devon, his father being a weaver there. Here he went by his own name,
telling him, he had been taken prisoner, and carried into the Havannah,
where he had lain many months. The justice having known his father very
well, entertained him generously, showed him the country, and gave him
three guineas at his departure, to help to pay his passage.

From thence he went to Burlington, the first town in West New-Jersey,
which contains about two hundred and fifty families, and has an
answerable number of acres laid out for plantations. The houses are well
built, and almost all of brick. The market affords plenty of all sorts
of provisions, which are as good here as any where in America.

From thence to Perth Amboy, so ca