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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...to Province Island on the 3lst, and closed this remarkable year with prayer and thanksgiving for all the proofs of the help of God in so many heavy trials. Government having received more certain information concerning the murderous intentions of the rioters, resolved to send the persecuted congregation for safety by way of New York to the English army, and particularly to recommend them tn Sir William Johnson, agent for the Crown among the Northern Indians. January 4th, at midnight, they set out, proceeding by water to a place about five miles from Philadelphia, and passed early and almost unobserved through that city to the house of the Brethren, where_a breakfast was provided for them in the meetinghall. H ere they were visited by the commissary, Mr. Fox, who was appointed by Government to direct their future journey. This gentleman was so struck at the sight of these poor emigrants, that he immediately ordered a number of blankets to be distributed among them, that they-might defend themselves better against the severe cold. Waggons being provided for the aged, the blind, the sick, the children, and the heavy baggage, they set out, accompanied by the missionaries, amidst so great a crowd of people, that they could hardly proceed. The mob cursed and reviled them in a dreadful manner, but no one ventured to lay hands on them. Captain Robertson, with 70 RETURN T0 PHILADELPHIA. 157 Highlanders, were then ordered to escort them. The coinmissaries, Messrs. Fox and Logan, went with them as far as Trenton, where the latter addressed them in the name of the governor, declaring his abhorrence of the murder of the Canestoga lndians, and delivered two belts of wampum to be sent to the lroquois. By the first, they were exhorted to make peace, ..
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