. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. ngers Burying Ground inPhiladelphia, testified under oath that he had buried 253Palatines up to November 14th, to which six or eight moreshould be added. Itseems the diseases con-tracted on ship-boardfollowed them longafter they reached In February, 1745,Saur said in his news-paper : Another shiparrived in Philadelphiawith Germans. It issaid she left port with400 souls and that thereare now not many morethan 50 left alive. On the 26th ofDecember, 1738, a shipof three hundred tonswas wrecked on BlockIsland, near the coast of
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. ngers Burying Ground inPhiladelphia, testified under oath that he had buried 253Palatines up to November 14th, to which six or eight moreshould be added. Itseems the diseases con-tracted on ship-boardfollowed them longafter they reached In February, 1745,Saur said in his news-paper : Another shiparrived in Philadelphiawith Germans. It issaid she left port with400 souls and that thereare now not many morethan 50 left alive. On the 26th ofDecember, 1738, a shipof three hundred tonswas wrecked on BlockIsland, near the coast of the State of Rhode Island. Thisship sailed from Rotterdam in August, 1738, last fromCowes, England. John Wanton, the Governor of RhodeIsland, sent Mr. Peter Bouse, and others, from Newport,to Block Island, to see how matters were. On the 19th ofJanuary, 1739, they returned to Newport, R. I., reportingthat the ship was commanded by Capt. Geo. Long, thathe died on the inward passage, and that the mate then took li0Co!onial Records, Vol. VI., p. AN OLD TAR BUCKET, SUCH AS WAS AL-WAYS CARRIED BY THE CONE-STOGA WAGONS. 262 The Pennsylvania-German Society. charge of the ship which had sailed from Rotterdam with400 Palatines, destined for Philadelphia, that an exceed-ingly malignant fever and flux had prevailed among them,only 105 landing at Block Island, and that by death thenumber had been further reduced to 90. The chief reasonalleged for this great mortality was the bad condition of thewater taken in at Rotterdam. It was filled in casks tha*before had contained white and red wine. The greaterpart of the goods of the Palatines was It may be stated in this connection that the ship Welcome,on which Penn came over in the fall of 1683, was of 300tons. The small-pox broke out on board and proved fatalto nearly one-third of those on Formation of the German all the efforts made by private individuals, andthe various enactments of the Provincial Ass
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