FOR J. CARPENTER, OLD BOND STREET; J. BOOKER, NEW BOND STREET; SHARPS AND HAILES, MUSEUM, PICCADILLY; AND GALE, CURTIS, AND FENNER, PATERNOSTER ROW; LONDON. Daniel De Foe was descended from a respectable family in the county of Northampton, and born in London, about the year 1663. His father, James Foe, was a butcher, in the parish of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, and a protestant dissenter. Why the subject of this memoir prefixed the _De_ to his family name cannot now be ascertained, nor did he at any period of his life think it necessary to give his reasons to the public. The political scribblers of the day, however, thought proper to remedy this lack of information, and accused him of posses…
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