October 6, were also ten weeks upon the ocean, and the ship that set out with ours from Deal was fourteen days longer on the voyage, and several people died in it. The Crefelders lost a grown girl between Rotterdam and England, whose loss however was replaced between England and Pennsylvania by the birth of two children. On our ship, on the other hand, no one died and no one was born.
I thought this was interesting. It highlights the unpleasant conditions of taking embarking on a sea voyage at this time. I'm thinking about one of the very important questions related to annotating documents which is what other perspectives are missing? I would want to hear the perspective of the Crefelder family, who lost a daughter on the voyage. What would it be like to experience loss at sea in this way, and do they see her death as being lessened by the birth of two other children? -cherryb