Providence in colonial times . Scene in a Public House in Surinam,ABOUT 1769 After a painting by John Greenwood, reproduced inFields Esek Hopkins. The two figures on the furtherside of the round table are Nicholas Cooke, later gov-ernor of the colony, smoking a long pipe and engaged inconversation with Esek Hopkins. I. The Shipping Trade 269 pal owners, namely, Nicholas and John Brown, Sim-eon Hunt, and Esek Hopkins. The remainder was**halved down; that is to say, the next largest ownerreceived one half of it, and the remainder was againdivided in the same way. This process was con-tinued unti
Providence in colonial times . Scene in a Public House in Surinam,ABOUT 1769 After a painting by John Greenwood, reproduced inFields Esek Hopkins. The two figures on the furtherside of the round table are Nicholas Cooke, later gov-ernor of the colony, smoking a long pipe and engaged inconversation with Esek Hopkins. I. The Shipping Trade 269 pal owners, namely, Nicholas and John Brown, Sim-eon Hunt, and Esek Hopkins. The remainder was**halved down; that is to say, the next largest ownerreceived one half of it, and the remainder was againdivided in the same way. This process was con-tinued until a thirty-second part of the cargos valuewas arrived at, and the last two stockholders dividedthat equally. Each man of the crew received £zS\-10. 10. The snow was put up at auction, and sold toNicholas Tillinghast and Company. Two years later,with Eseks nephew, Rufus Hopkins, on board ascaptain, she again figured in a prize-case at Phila-delphia, and there, too, she was sold at publicVendue. Scarcely had the townspeople ceased to haunt thewharf where the prize lay, and to quote the pricesgiven from day to day as her cargo was bid in slowly,when another capture appeared, and one of suchastounding richness that the Desire was well-nighforgotten. The snow ^even Brothers^ loaded withcoffee, sugar, and cotton, to
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