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The 20th of the First Month, being the firft of the Week, we had a comfortable Meeting for divine At Sea. Worship, in which the Goodnefs of God was extended to us as we were rowling on the mighty Waters of the great Deep, after which we had pleasant Weather, and a fair Wind for feveral Days.

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On the 26th the Wind fprung up at Eaft North-Eaft, a hard Gale, which lafted feveral Days; and having but little Sea-room for about thirty Hours, it blew fo hard, that we could drefs no Victuals; I then thought on the Words of Job, when he fpoke to his impatient Wife, faying, Shall we receive Good at the Hand of God, and fhall we not receive Evil alfo? (or that which is accounted or looks like Evil in the Eye of Man) In this Time of Exercife the Love and heavenly Life of God, in his beloved Son, filled my Heart, and caused an Overflowing of Praises to his holy, glorious, and bleffed Name. Oh! it was exceeding precious to my Soul at that Time!

The 1ft of the Second Month we faw Land, being driven to the Southward near 250 Miles in this laft hard Weather; but we foon after arrived at our defired Port. After which I vifited the Meetings of Friends at Philadelphia, Burlington, the Falls, Abington, GermanBurlington, town, Bristol, and Frankfort, and found the People had been under a general Vifitation of the Small-pox, infomuch that many Hundreds, efpecially of Children, were taken off the Stage of this Life in the City of Philadelphia, and I was concerned to exhort Friends in that City to bring their Children to Meetings, and educate them, when young, in the Way they fhould go, that they might not depart from it when old; and that he who had taken many away, could, if he pleased, take many more; for though he might have laid down his Rod at prefent (the Diftemper in the City being much abated) he could foon take it up again. It is my Belief that the Lord Almighty will ftill continue to vifit the City and People (if there is not a Reforma

tion) with further, if not forer, Vifitations, because 1731. he hath known them to do them good, and make them a Bleffing to many Iflands and People; giving them the Fatnefs of the Earth, and that which is far more, the Dew of Heaven; fo that he may juftly fay to us, as to Ifrael of old, You have I known of all the Families of the Earth; therefore I will vifit upon you for all your Iniquities.

In the Beginning of the Fourth Month, Robert Jordan was married to Mary, the Widow of Richard Hill (all three worthy Friends.) The Meeting on this Occafion was large, and the Marriage folemnized in the Fear of God. Divers Friends were concerned to speak to the People, and it was greatly defired that those present (who were then spoke to) might be married to Chrift, the great Lover of Souls, who laid down his Life (the most precious Life that ever was on Earth) and shed his precious Blood for our Salvation,

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A few Days after which I again took Shipping for fixth the Island of Barbadoes (being the fixth Voyage) in the Mafter. New Bristol Hope, and left the Capes of Delaware the eighth Day of the Month. The 22d of the faid Month, At Sea, I being weary, laid me down to reft, and fell asleep, and was awakened out of my Sleep with the Words, Ob Heart in Heaven! 'Tis an excellent Thing to have an Heart in Heaven! Which Words were comfortable to me, and left a Sweetness on my Mind all the Day after, for which I was thankful, and greatly defired that my Heart and Mind might be fet and fixed more and more on Heaven and heavenly Things, and that my Treasure might be in Heaven, that my Heart might be there alfo, according to the Doctrine of my Saviour, Mat. vi. 6, 20, 21. Lay up for yourselves Treasure in Heaven, for where your Treasure is, there will your Heart be alfo.

The 27th Day (being the First Day of the Week) we had a comfortable Meeting, the Weather being moderate; and on the 7th of the Fifth Month, we ar- Barbadors. rived at Bridge-town in Barbadoes, where we unloaded

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1731. Part of our Cargo, and from thence we went to Speight's-Town; where, after a Stay of about five Weeks, we accomplished our Affairs. I also visited all our Friends Meetings, and some several Times, in which we were edified and comforted, and divers of us had Occafion to bless the holy Name of God for his Mercy to us: Before we left the Island, there happened a great Storm or Hurricane, which did much Damage to the Ships, and to the Iland, blowing down many Houfes, and fpoiling much Provifions, deftroying almost all the Plantain Trees on the Ifland, which is a very wholsome and pleafant Fruit, and much ufed by many instead of Bread.

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I was clearing out our Veffel when this Storm happened, and being twelve Miles off, could not hear of or concerning her, but thought it altogether unlikely that she should ride out fo great a Storm, in fo bad a Harbour or Road, it being open to the Sea, and fuch a Storm as had not been known for many Years, and fome faid, never but one (to their Knowledge) though much more Damage hath at fome other Times been done to the Shipping, by reafon that the hardest of 'the Wind was not that Way, which was most dangerous to them in Carlisle-Bay, where they moftly lay; for they all got out to Sea, except two or three that were loft by the Violence of the Weather. It was indeed a very difmal Time, the Veffels which rode it out were much damnified, and one being loaded, ready to fail, funk right down, and was loft in the Bay. When I had cleared our Ship, I fet forward in order to fee what was become of her; but the Floods were fo out, and the Ways were so bad, I could not without fome Danger get to her that Night; but next Morning I fet out from Jofeph Gamble's, and, to my Admiration, from the Top of a Hill (on which a Houfe in the Storm was blown flat to the Ground) I faw our Ship at an Anchor, having rode out the Storm, with one

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Sloop by her, for which Caufe my Soul was humbly 1731. thankful.

On the 17th of the faid Month, with fome more than ordinary Fatigue, we got up our Anchor, and took in our Boat, and got our Paffengers and Provifions on board, the Sea breaking high on the Shore, fo that feveral of our People and our Boat were in Jeopardy of being loft; but at length being all on board, we fet Sail, Sails from and having failed flowly about fix or feven Miles, we Barbadoes, met with a Sloop who had loft her Maft in the Storm, and next Morning we met with two large London Ships, who had put out to Sea, not venturing to ride it out.

We had fine pleasant Weather for feveral Days after we left the Island, and on the 22d of the Sixth Month (being the first Day of the Week) we had a Meeting for the Worship of God, which was comfortable and fatisfactory to us. The 4th and 5th of the Seventh Month, we had very fresh Gales from the North-Eaft to the North, and was near a Water Spout (about a Stone's throw off) which furprized fome on board, on which I came out of my Cabbin, and faw the Water run up out of the Sea into the Cloud, as plain as ever I faw the Water run into the River, till it filled the Cloud with Blackness, and then it would break in great Quantities into the Sea, which is dangerous, when falling on Veffels. The 5th of the Month, being the first Day of the Week, we had a good religious Meeting for divine Worship, wherein our People were earnestly exhorted to a holy Life, and to be earnestly concerned for the true Faith, which is in Chrift; that Faith which works by Love, and is the Evidence of Things not vifibly feen, being manifest by Works of Piety and Virtue. In this Voyage we were twenty two Days from the Inland of Barbadoes to the Sight of Cape Henry in Virginia, and had a pleafant phia. Paffage in the main to Philadelphia, where, in the Seventh Month, was held our Yearly-meeting, at which I had a Defire to be, my watery Employment having hinder'd

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1731. hinder'd my being at a yearly Meeting for feveral Years: At this Meeting I met with my old Acquaintance, and dear Friends, John Richardfon of Yorkfhire, and Paul Johnson of Dublin, both on a Gospel Vifit to the Brethren and Friends in America: The Meeting was large, and attended with divine Grace and Goodness, and ended with Thanksgiving and Praise to God and the Lamb.

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While our Ship was loading I was at several Meetings in the Country, as at Abington, German-town, Fair-bill, and Frankfort, in Philadelphia County; and at the Falls of Delaware, Buckingham, Neshaminy, and Bristol, in Bucks County. I was alfo at Burlington, at the Marriage of William Callender, junior, of Barbadoes, with Katherine Smith, Daughter of Daniel and Mary Smith of Burlington.

On the 16th of the Ninth Month I proceeded on Voyage to the feventh Voyage to Barbadoes, in the Ship New BriBarbadoer. ftol Hope, as Mafter, having on board several Paffengers, one of whom (Elizabeth Martindale) was on the Paffage convinced of the Principles of Truth, and afterwards fuffered, in divers Refpects, for her making Profeffion with us.

We had a long Paffage down the River, the Wind being high and boisterous. On the 22d of the Ninth Month, we left the Capes of Delaware, and faw the Arrives at Ifland of Barbadoes the 21ft of the Tenth Month, beBarbadoes fore it was Day, and in the Afternoon came to an Anchor in the Bay of Speight's-Town. In this Voyage I met with an Accident that was painful and troublesome to me, which happened in a hard Gale of Wind, I being to the Windward, and the Ship having a large Motion, and miffing my Hold, was canted from my Place to the other Side of the Veffel, against the Edge of a Cheft, and fo bruifed my Leg that I could not do my Business as I ufually did, which was a great Hindrance and Difappointment to me: But in about a Month's Time, with the Affiftance of fome of my Friends