1710. ing with the Germans or Palatines, on the Ship's Deck, and one that understood both Languages interpreted for me. The People were tender and wrought upon, behaved fober, and were well fatisfied: And I can truly fay, I was well fatisfied alfo.

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In this Voyage we had our Health to Admiration; and I shall observe one Thing worthy of my Notice. Some of my loving and good Friends in London, fearing a Sickness in the Ship, as fhe was but small, confidering there were fo many Souls on board her, being ninety-four in Number, they, for that and other Reasons, advised me not to go in her; for they loved me well, and I took it kindly of them: But I could not be easy to take their Advice, because I had been long from my Habitation and Business, and which was yet more, from my dear and loving Wife: And notwithstanding the Veffel was fo full and crowded, and also several of the People taken into the Ship fick in the River of Thames, yet they mended on board the Veffel apace, and were foon all brave and hearty, being perfectly recovered at Sea, and the Ship, thro' the Providence of the Almighty, brought them all well to Philadelphia, in the Seventh Month 1710: (I think I never was in a more healthy Veffel in all my Time, and I thought this peculiar Favour worthy to be recorded by me.) We had a very pleasant Paffage up the River Delaware, to our great Satisfaction, the Palatines being wounderfully pleafed with the Country, mightily admiring the Pleafantnefs and the Fertility of it. Divers of our People went on Shore, and brought Fruit on board, which was the largest and fineft they had ever feen, as they faid, viz. Apples, Peaches, &c.

I was from my Family and Habitation in this Journey and Travel for the Space of three Years, within a few Weeks; in which Time, and in my Return, I had sweet Peace to my Soul, Glory to God for evermore! I had Meetings every Day when on Land,

except Second and Seventh Days (when in Health, and 1710. nothing extraordinary hindered) and travelled by Sea and Land Fourteen Thousand Three Hundred Miles, according to our English Account. I was kindly and tenderly received by my Friends, who longed to fee me, as I did them, and our Meeting was comfortable and pleasant.

After this long Travel and Voyage I ftay'd at Home, and looked after the little Family which God had given me, and kept duly to Meetings, except fomething extraordinary hindered. Divers People, when I came Home, raised a falfe Report of me, and faid, I had brought Home a great deal of Money and Goods, that I had got by Preaching; which was utterly falfe and bafe; for I brought neither Money or Goods, fo much as to the Value of Five Pounds, except my wearing Apparel; fo much the Reverse, that I borrowed Money at London to pay for my Accommodations Home, the which I faithfully remitted back again to my Friend that lent it me, to whom I was much obliged for the fame : And if I might have gained a Hundred Pounds per Annum, it would not have tempted me to undertake that, or fuch another Journey. Soon after my Return Home again, I vifited a few neighbouring Meetings, which were large and edifying, Friends being glad to fee me again return'd Home from that long Journey. And I did (as I had Reason to do) blefs the holy Name of the Lord, for his many Preservations and Deliverances by Sea and Land.

After fome Stay at Philadelphia, I went down with my Wife and Family into Maryland, to a Corn-Mill Maryland. and Saw-Mill, which I had there, in order to live some Time, and fettle my Affairs: And after being there fome Time, my dear Wife was taken ill of a fore Disease, which fome thought to be an Ulcer in the Bladder, and I had her up to Philadelphia, fhe being carried as far as Chefter in a Horfe-litter, where the continued for fome Months in much Mifery, and

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1711. extream Pain, at the House of our very kind Friends, David and Grace Lloyd, whofe Kindness to us in that fore, trying, and exercifing Time, was great, and is not to be forgotten by me, while I live in this World. From Chefter we removed her again in a Litter, being accompanied by our Friends, to Philadelphia, where The continued very ill all that Winter, often thinking that Death tarried long, and crying mightily to the Lord, Ob! Come away, come away! This was her Cry Day and Night, 'till at laft fhe could fpeak no more. As we lived together in great Love and Unity, being very affectionate one to another; fo being now left alone I was very solitary, and fometimes forrowful, and broken into many Tears, in the Sense of my Lofs and Lonesomnefs. This my dear Wife, was a virtuous young Woman, and one that truly feared God, and loved his dear Son; from whom the had received a good Gift of the Miniftry, and was ferviceable to many therein. I had five Children by her, four Sons and one Daughter, all which I buried before her, under three Years old. At the Yearly-meeting before the died, fhe was fo wonderfully carried forth in her Miniftry, by the divine Grace, that divers of her Friends believed the was near her End, fhe fignifying fomething to that Effect in her Teftimony, and that she should not live to fee another Yeerly-meeting: And fo it came to pafs; for fhe died before another Yearly. meeting, being aged about thirty-five Years, and a married Woman about thirteen Years. Her Body was carried to Friends Meeting-house in Philadelphia, and buried in Friends burying Ground, being accompanied by many Hundreds of our Friends, in a folemn Manner: And my Heart was greatly broken in Cor. fideration of my great Lofs; and being left alone as to Wife and Children, I many Times deeply mourned, tho' I well knew my Lofs was her's and their Gain! Here I fhall end the first Part of the Journal of fome Part of my Life and Travels, omitting many

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NOW gave up my Time moftly to travelling, for about the Space of two Years, in which I visited the Meetings of Friends in the Provinces of Penfylvania, East and West-Ferfey, Maryland, Virginia, and North-Carolina, and back again Virginia. to Philadelphia, and then to New-Jersey again: Alfo rolina. to Long-Iland, Rhode-Island, Conanicut-Island, Nantucket-Island, and New-England, and thro' those Parts phia. Long-land, on my Return to Philadelphia. In thefe Provinces, Rhode c. I travelled fome Thousands of Miles, and had many large Meetings (fome in Places where there had not been any before) and fome were convinced, and many would acknowledge to the Teftimony of Truth,

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