CHAPTER XVI.
BRITISH EMANCIPATION OF SLAVERY.
As time passed on I found myself progressing in a profitable business.

I had paid for my house and lot, and purchased another adjoining, on which I had erected a valuable brick building.

The Lord prospered all my undertakings and I felt grateful for my good fortune.

I kept all kinds of groceries and grain, which met a ready sale; and now I began to look about me for a partner in life, to share my joys and sorrows, and to assist me on through the tempestuous scenes of a life-long voyage.

Such a companion I found in the intelligent and amiable Miss B----, to whom I was married on the eleventh of May, 1825.