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From the journal of John Woolman

Memorandum of a passage to England

From the journal of John Woolman

by R A McRoy 21st September 2012

My beloved friend Samuel having taken a cabin
For himself in the ship called Mary and Elizabeth
(James Sparks the master), wept when I spake to him,
I feeling a prompting in my heart to travel steerage