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NYG(B.732.005
18-25 Sep 1732:22,31 (361)
Extract of a Letter from Gentlemen at Deal, to his Friend in
London, dated July 8, 1732.
Yesterday I went on board the Johnson Gally, Capt. Crokatt.
in the Downs, bound from Rotterdam with Palatiens to
Pensylvania, and was agreeably surprized at the good order
and regularity observed among them. There are about 350
men, women, and children on board, and altho' some are
Lutherans and others Calvinists, yet they live in great
harmony, and join morning and evening in prayer and singing
of Psalms, which lasts almost an hour; their children seem
to have some education, the little ones having each a book,
out of which they sing with the rest: They have no minister
on board, but a young man of about 20 years of age was chose
to officiate as such. . . [15 more lines on the character of
the people and preparations for the voyage.]
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