Journal, 1794.

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Journal, 1794.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122441154

An account of Martha Routh's voyage in the company of Friends, on the ship Barcly, from London, Eng. to Boston, Mass. The journal presents a picture of daily life on board a ship of that period, passengers' fear of capture by privateers, supply of provisions.

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Routh, Martha Winter, 1743-1817

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Martha Routh or Martha Winter (25 June 1743 – 18 July 1817) was a British Quaker minister and writer. Martha Winter was the last child, born in Stourbridge in 1743, to Henry and Jane Winter. She had nine siblings, although only five survived childhood. By the age of 24, she was the head of a Quaker boarding school in Nottingham after starting to teach there when she was seventeen. She was made a minister in 1773 and, after her marriage to Richard Routh in 1776, she devoted herself to Quaker mi...

Barcly (ship).

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Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...