The Land of Bondage: A RomanceBloundelle-Burton, John
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The Land of Bondage: A Romance
Bloundelle-Burton, John
Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
Mr. Kinchella and Mary Mills we saw married a week after our own
nuptials, so we left them also happy and content--which was a great
joy to us to do. O'Rourke, too, we parted from as friends part from
one another, he setting out for Savannah where he purposed to instal
himself as agent of Mr. Oglethorpe and bidding us an affectionate
farewell ere doing so. He also made an affidavit before an attorney at
Jamestown of all he knew of the villainies of Robert St. Amande and
the wretch Considine, and swore as well that, from the intimate
knowledge he had of my lord's family, and also from having had him
once in his charge, the Viscount St. Amande was most undoubtedly the
lawfully born child of the late lord. Moreover, he also swore (and
produced letters from Considine proving his oath, which letters he
gave to Gerald) that, during the separation of Lady St. Amande from
her husband, he, Considine, was living an outlaw at Hamburg with a
price upon his head, so that he could never have even seen her during
that time.
The overseers of the bond-servants being, like all the others, free
men now, were provided with means whereby either to establish
themselves in the colony or to go elsewhere, though they, in common
with the others, elected to remain as hired hands on my estate during
my absence. Buck, however, who seemed never to have lost his
rollicking disposition, being also provided with some money wherewith
to adventure on his own account, bought the lease of the tavern in the
village, and changed its name from that of the King's Head to the St.
Amande Arms. Lamb, who had once been a sailor, became again one, while
his sister, Christian, took passage with us to England as my maid.
CHAPTER XXX
IN THE LAND WHERE THEIR FATHERS DWELT
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