He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called—nay we call ourselves and write our name—Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.
Ekkor vette feleségül édesanyámat, aki az ország egy igen jó hírű családjából, a Robinsonoktól származott. Őutánuk örököltem a Robinson Kreutznaer nevet, de a szokásos angol szófacsarásnak köszönhetően ma már Crusoe-nak írjuk és nevezzük magunkat.