Neville reflects on his family's fiftieth business anniversary and equal income

Neville tells of the Goddard family's just-celebrated fiftieth anniversary in business, begun on borrowed money and sustained by the brothers dwelling in unity; he left home at seventeen for America, forty-nine years ago, while his educated brothers returned to Barbados, and though absent he draws the same twenty percent as those working there.
Date (happened)
1922
unresolved
  1. 1922 stated · preferred
    Source The Potter's House ¶26"at the age of seventeen ... forty-nine years since I left my home", told in The Potters House (Unresolved ASR Witness) (nid 3992)
Place
Barbados
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 1971 estimated
    Source The Potter's House ¶26passage 556668 (lecture nid 3992 'The Potter's House'), delivery claim d0 exact year 1971/certain (49-years-since-1922-departure + fiftieth-business-anniversary internal dating)
    Reasoning Passage 556668 is Neville narrating directly the Goddard family's just-celebrated fiftieth business anniversary and his own 1922 departure for America 'forty-nine years' before. The lecture containing this passage, nid 3992, has only one delivery claim, a certain, year-only exact date (1971, derived from his stated 49 years since leaving Barbados at 17, independently agreeing with the fiftieth-anniversary reference). No month or day is given by any evidence, so the telling inherits that same year-only precision and certain confidence.
Sources

Source

  • The Potter's House ¶26 (I left home at the age of seventeen to come to America, and returned only for contacts with the family, but it’s been now forty-nine years since I left my home.)