text:  But by this time my glebe was not the only land on which I could plant my foot and say Lo thou art mine! for I had so prospered in the five years during which I had held a ladder for my pupils to the tree of knowledge that much golden fruit had fallen to my share (being kicked down as it were by their climbing among the branches;) so that I had purchased the fee simple of the estate of my friend Master George Sprowles who had taken some alarm at the state of public affairs and gone away over the seas to the plantation called I think Massachusets in the great American continent