I had by many letters and much importunity, and with the intercession of my mother too, had a second return of some goods from my brother (as I now call him) in Virginia, to make up the damage of the cargo I brought away with me, and this too was upon the condition of my sealing a general release to him, and to send it him by his correspondent at Bristol, which, though I thought hard of, yet I was obliged to promise to do.
Je commençai maintenant à dresser mes comptes; j'avais par maintes lettres et grande importunité, et aussi par l'intercession de ma mère, obtenu de mon frère un nouvel envoi de quelques marchandises de Virginie, afin de compenser l'avarie de la cargaison que j'avais emportée et ceci aussi avait été à la condition que je lui scellerais une quittance générale, ce que j'avais dû promettre, si dur que cela me parût.