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Abraham Browne’s Captivity by the Barbary Pirates, 1655
STEPHEN T. RILEY
IN the January 1848 issue of the New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Charles Browne communicated a note regarding a manuscript journal kept by his ancestor, Abraham Browne.1 The title and dedication of the journal were given as follows:
A Book of Remembrance of God’s Provydences towards me, A.B., throughout the cours of my Life, written for my own medytacon in New Engl.
To his honnered father in law, Mr. Hezykiah Vsher, Segr. marchent in Boston, N.E.
Honnered Sr. whatever afflicons hath befalne me in the wholl cours of my life, whether in body, minde, estate, or name, I know my sin to be the procuring caws. Jere. 4:18 I medle not with God’s decrees, tho I believe our stations, situations, and ends limmited by God. What I was unwilling to do while living, I have left to be presented to you after my decease, viz., a few lines of my life and experiences, which, when you have perused it, I desire my child, Hezykiah Browne, may have it. I pray God make it of use to him, that he may not trust to worldly enjoyments of any kinde, but in Christ Jesus, to live unto him, to be forever blest of him. This Booke is, as it weare, of two parts;—The second part I bequeath unto my dafter, Elizab