that may be in my possession.

The person concerning whom you inquire was

my fellow passenger on my first voyage to this

State on board the Mercy G. Tarbox, in the latter

part of the year. He was then known as Mr. William

Beauvoir. I was acquainted with his history,

of which the details escape me at this writing.

He was a countryman of mine; a member of an

important county family—Devonian, I believe—and

had left England on account of large gambling