Who is there! said she--it is I, said I--well’, what do you want; to come in; for what said she; before I cou’d answer, I heard my daughter D., who was in bed with her say, _why, Mar it is Par_, this was aneogh, the doors flew open, and the greetings of affection & consanguinity multiplied upon me rapidly. [Sidenote: End of the Voyage] Thus, in a moment was I transported to the greatest earthly bliss, man can injoy, viz to the injoyment of the happy family circil. To fall of 1812-- [Illustration: decorative line] The foregoing was written by Gen Elijah Cobb during the Year 1843, with the intention of completing, but the state of his health prevented. He remained at home from 1812 to 1815 or 1816, when he made several voyages to Europe in the Ship ‘Paragon’ built for him, and considered at the time one of the finest ships of her day. In 1818 & 1819 he made two voyages to Africa in the Ship “Ten Brothers,” taking with him on the first voyage, his son Freeman. The second voyage, there was much sickness of a contagious character, and the ship on her return was sunk at the end of the wharf to prevent contagion in the city of Boston.[7] He left the sea in 1820, and after that time remained in Brewster, Mass. filling the various civil offices of Town Clerk, Treasurer, Inspector General, Representative and Senator, and Justice of Peace & Quoram, also the military rank of Brigadier General. He was a strong supporter of the Universalist church of the town, in whose doctrines he took much interest. He was tall & straight of fine figure his face very pleasant to look upon. He loved children and was loved by them. Distinguished for his sterling integrity as well as talent loved and respected by all who knew him, he died at the age of eighty. “May our end be like his.” His body & that of his wife lie in the new cemetery, Brewster. E. W. C.[8] Brewster June 19, 1857 [Illustration: decorative line] _LETTERS_ _From Messrs. Joshua Wall, John Baxter, Jacob Tidd and William Hayden_ Boston Nov 27^{th} 1801. Cap^{t} E Cobb, _Sir_,