I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father beinga foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off histrade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were namedRobinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by theusual corruption of words in England, we are now called—nay we call ourselves and write our name—Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.
