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 | | The pattern of that particular journey was so often repeated, my father talking with an easy familiarity about the places we passed by on the roads, all the while unwinding an intimate knowledge of the parish and of the island in which he was born and grew up and which he clearly loved. |
 | | Following this, the Jamaica born children were packed off to Scotland ‘to be boarded, educated and clothed…according to the most easy and reasonable rate (Note22) by their uncle William, John's younger brother; infant George, however, was either overlooked in accounts, died on the voyage or remained with his father in Jamaica. |
 | | John was back in Hanover seven years later, to put up in partnership with Alexander Smart a merchant in Montego Bay, where Smart and Dickson supplied "a large and general assortment of Dry Goods" (Note50) from London until John, for reasons unknown, temporarily left for Britain in early 1792. |
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