This they all engag’d to do, and entred into writings or covenants to do so; and I made a formal will, disposing of my plantation and effects, in case of my death, making the captain of the ship that had sav’d my life as before, my universal heir
They listened always very attentively to my discourses on these heads, but especially to that part which related to the buying Negroes, which was a trade at that time not only not far entred into
For an offence which I had not at all entred into a discussion of in my thoughts, any farther than my passions were at first fir’d by the horror I conceiv’d at the natural custom of that people of the country