Complex sentence: In the mid 1750s, the Boston portraitist, John Greenwood, followed a group of sea captains and merchants, including Hopkins, to Surinam on the northeast coast of South America, and here the trading usually took time, so the men often waited in pubs.
Split into simpler sentences: In the mid 1750s, the Boston portraitist, John Greenwood, followed a group of sea captains and merchants, including Hopkins, to Surinam on the northeast coast of South America. Here the trading usually took time, so the men often waited in pubs.