A very few years ago, & it had been a^^quiet^^simpleVillageinteresting only of no considerationinhabited by one Family of consequence,his own, of secondary pretensions; but somenatural advantages in its position & ^somesome accidental circumstances having suggestedto himself, & the other principal ^LandHolderProprietorof the Land, the probability of its'^becomingbeinga profitable Speculation, hethey¹ had engaged in it, & planned & built, & praised & puffed,& raised it to a Something of note young^{Renown –}notoriety; and M^r . Parker could now thinkof very little besides. — The Facts, which in more direct communication, he laid before them were that he wasabout 5 & 30 — had been married, —very happily married 7 years — &had 4 sweet Children at home; —that he was ^{of a respectable}no ProfeſsionFamily,& easy though not large fortune; — noProfeſsion – succeeding as eldest son tothe Property which 2 or 3 Generations had been holding & accumulating be::fore him; — that he had 2 Brothers&^²Sisters – all single & all indepen::dant — the eldest of the two ^formerBrothers