I am an independent gentleman, sir, and my name is Thomas Tag. I was born in the year

I am an independent gentleman, sir, and my name is Thomas Tag. I was born in the year 1716, and am consequently in the present year 1786, seventy years old. I have been all that time employed in running horses, and have been very successful in my employment, for I have been always prosperous in my undertakings, and have acquired a considerable fortune, which I intend to increase to a greater compass. I am at present the owner of five thousand head of cattle, which are ranged in different parts of the country, from Cape Men to Dawson's Main. I have, likewise, on the same ground, an innumerable quantity of sheep, which are computed to be at least an hundred thousand. My servants are reckoned to be one thousand in number, and my annual income