Excerpt from Two Essays: One Upon Single Vision With Two Eyes; The Other on Dew
I was born in Charlestown, South Carolina, in May, 1757, being the second son, but fourth child, of Robert and Mary Wells, both natives of Scotland. My mother bore many children afterwards, none of whom lived more than a few years, except one, a daughter, who now resides in London; my brother died about twenty years ago; my two eldest sisters survive.
My father and mother came to Carolina in 1753; but a mercantile scheme which he was then pursuing having failed, he took to the business of a bookseller and bookbinder, to which he had been bred when a youth in Dumfries.
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