Text Appearing Before Image: or there were six shipsbroken and cast away; but God was pleased to make out his promiseto me, for none of the ships he commanded were lost. He served as governor of Nova Scotia in 1710-1712,1715-1717, and tried to be generous and just as an administrator.It has been said, however, that all the troubles of Vetchsadministration are to be ascribed to that difference in lan-guage which made him harsh, and that difference in faithwhich made him bitter. Finally, being reduced to thelast extremity of necessity, he died, 30 April, 1732, aprisoner for debt, in the Kings bench, London, and wasburled at Southwark the next day. His only child, Alida,married Samuel Bayard, nephew and secretary of GovernorStuyvesant. Vetch had many of the elements of a greatleader, but circumstances. Inherited convictions, and misfor-tune conspired to neutralize the efifect of his remarkablepowers. An Acadian Governor, by James Grant Wilson. International Review, Novem-ber, i88i. Memoirs of Mr. William Veitch. 334 Text Appearing After Image: SAMUEL VETCH1668-1722 (1335) TH?^ NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY y^ NOV 3 - 1939
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