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