Gulliver's Travels. Part I. A Voyage to Lilliput. • Paragraph 1
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I was born in the year 1682, in the city of Nottingham, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of great estate, who had married the daughter of a country gentleman in Nottinghamshire. I mention my father's family, because I am well informed, my father was the second son of a very considerable gentleman, who had three sons and two daughters. My grandfather, who was a merchant at Worcester, had two daughters, one of whom was married to a gentleman in Staffordshire, and the other to a man of York. My mother was the daughter of a clothier in Norfolk, who had four children, two sons and two daughters; the eldest son was a lawyer; the second was a doctor; the youngest daughter was married to a gentleman in Suffolk.