Hannah Logan's Courtship Author:John Smith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EXTRACTS FROM THE EARLIER PARTS OF JOHN SMITH'S DIARY A Voyage To Barbadoes In 1741 Tenth month, 1741. Having a mind to See the Island of Barbad... more »oes, and to know the manner of living at Sea, and to Survey the wonders of the Lord in the deep, and having my father's Consent So to do, I Set out from home [Burlington, New Jersey] for Philadelphia by land on the 8th of 10 mo : 1741, being jd day of the week. The next day about 2 o'Clock P.M. I sett out from Philadelphia in the Brig" Burlington, Wm. Condy master, Belonging to my father, and her Cargo Consigned to me and my Coz. Samuel Noble, who also went with me. The wind being a head we turned it from Philadelphia, and about two miles below the town on Pennsylvania Shore we gott aground, and there lay till the next tide. My desires to the Lord before I left home were to be Enabled to be wholly resigned to his blessed will, and that if it were Consistent therewith He might preserve me from the hands of unreasonable men without and from the Power of the more unreasonable Enemy within. loth of lo1" and 5th of the week, the tide having floated us, we weighed anchor about 2 o'Clock A.M. but it being Stark Calm they towed us down to Red Bank, where we dropt Anchor about 8 o'Clock A.M. to wait for the next tide, having again touched a ground a little above the mouth of Skuilkill, but Soon gott off again. The time that we lay at Anchor here, I spent with a great deal of pleasure in viewing the boats, Shallops andc that with the flood passed by us. I think there was 9 or 10 of them, and but one topsail Vessel, which was a Sloop from New York. The day I left home I wanted 43 days of being 19 years of age, and had a good Certificate from the monthly meeting of friends in Burlington. Weighed Anchor about 3 o'Clock P.M., and ...« less