I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a nice
family, although not of that country, my father being a foreigner of
Bremen, who settled 1st at Hull. He got a nice estate by
merchandise, and departure off his trade lived subsequently at York, from
whence he had wedded my mother, whose relations were named
Robinson, a nice family in that country, and from whom I was called
Robinson Kreutznear; but by the usual corruption of words in European country
we are now called, nay, we call ourselves, and write our name, Crusoe,
and so my companions always called me.

I had two elder brothers, one of which was lieutenant-colonel to
an English regiment of foot in Flanders, once commanded by the
famous Commissioned military officer Lockhart, and was killed at the battle n