He told me he could not tell exactly to what degree the plantation was improved; but this he knew, that my partner was grown exceeding rich upon the enjoying his part of it; and that, to the best of his remembrance, he had heard that the king’s third of my part, which was, it seems, granted away to some other monastery or religious house, amounted to above two hundred moidores a year: that as to my being restored to a quiet possession of it, there was no question to be made of that, my partner being alive to witness my title, and my name being also enrolled in the register of the country; also he told me that the survivors of my two trustees were very fair, honest people, and very wealthy; and he believed I would not only have their assistance for putting me in possession, but would find a very considerable sum of money in their hands for my account, being the produce of the farm while their fathers held the trust, and before it was given up, as above; which, as he remembered, was for about twelve years.
En cuanto a la posibilidad de recuperar mis derechos sobre la plantación, estaba seguro de que lo conseguiría pues mi socio, que aún vivía, podía dar fe de mis títulos, que estaban inscritos a mi nombre en el catastro de los propietarios del país. También me dijo que los sucesores de mis dos administradores eran gente honrada y muy rica y que, según pensaba, no solo me ayudarían a recuperar mis posesiones sino que, además, me entregarían una considerable cantidad de dinero por los beneficios producidos en mi plantación durante el tiempo que sus padres la habían administrado antes de la cesión, que debieron ser unos doce años.