Complex sentence: He eventually moved from North Kingstown to Scituate, Rhode Island and purchased a farm which Governor Stephen Hopkins had previously owned, and he set up a prosperous tavern in 1758 and was an active farmer and molasses trader.
Split into simpler sentences: He eventually moved from North Kingstown to Scituate, Rhode Island and purchased a farm which Governor Stephen Hopkins had previously owned. West set up a prosperous tavern in 1758 and was an active farmer and molasses trader.