Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . 79, in the Parish of Willoughby,Lincolnshire, near the coast of the NorthSea, between the Wash and the could tiace his line of paternal ancestryin Lancashire, back to the Conquest, andhis mother (a Yorkshire woman) was far uj;on a family tree. In reference to his parent-age. Smiths friend, Braithwait, wrote, in asonnet addressed to him on his return fromVirginia, Two great Shires of England did thee beare,Renowned Yorksliire, Gaunt-Btiled Lancashire. From earliest boyhood Smitli was restiveunder restraint, loved the fore
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . 79, in the Parish of Willoughby,Lincolnshire, near the coast of the NorthSea, between the Wash and the could tiace his line of paternal ancestryin Lancashire, back to the Conquest, andhis mother (a Yorkshire woman) was far uj;on a family tree. In reference to his parent-age. Smiths friend, Braithwait, wrote, in asonnet addressed to him on his return fromVirginia, Two great Shires of England did thee beare,Renowned Yorksliire, Gaunt-Btiled Lancashire. From earliest boyhood Smitli was restiveunder restraint, loved the forest and the sea,and, at the age of thirteen years, as he says,he was set upon brave adventures. Atthat time he was at a parish school in secretly made preparations to go to sea;and to procure money for that purpose, hesold his books, satchel, and other property in Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by Harper and Brothers, in the Clerks Office of tlie Dis-trict Court for the Southern District of New York. Vol. XXI.—No. 126.—Zz. 722 HARPERS NEW MONTPILY MAGAZINE. his possession. His father sickened and diedbefore he had accomplished his object, and youngSmith, being left with a competent estate for hissupport, was persuaded to remain at home andto prepare for a mercantile life. His guardianapprenticed him, at the age of fifteen years, toThomas Sendall, of Lynn-Regis, on the southernshores of the Wash. Sendall was the greatestmerchant of all those parts. The inactive life of the counting-room was dis-tasteful to young Smith, and because his masterwould not send him to sea, as he desired, he lefthis service and entered into the train of Pere-grine Barty, second son of Lord Willoughby,who was going to France. His conduct hadbeen so offensive to his friends that they wereglad of his departure, and gave him, out of hisown estate, he says, ten shillings to get ridof him. He seems not to have pleased his newmaster, for, six weeks afterward, he was dis-c
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