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54.55% master boat money slave run times indies pounds hundred suffer west servant sugar paid boys navigation shipboard purchase doran year earned trifling lady teach buy places character escape robert guineas portsmouth case town understood looked stores sailor discharged baptized charles saved amiable forty brother pretty favour seized knowledge business
45.45% government vassa lordships gustavus poor commissioners navy black conduct agent sierra provisions dismission committee leone honourable expedition persons employment part commissary warrant twenty orders send memorial appointed months considerable cloathing surplus memorialist petition letter provided expense necessaries aforesaid redress produce city duty presents concerned majesty advantage acted proper trust

'The bearer hereof, Gustavus Vassa, was my slave for upwards of three years, during which he has always behaved himself well, and discharged his duty with honesty and assiduity.