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 On her Soft's Return fro7n England. 29

Dicril; that fliip bring to quiet Port. The other faiik low in the Deep.*

From Dangers great thou did'ft him free Of P3^rates who were neer at hand; And order'ft fo the adverfe wind, That he before them gott to Land.

these ships : —
 * Gookin, in his " Historical Collections," pp. 63-63, tells the story of

"But An. 1657, i" ^^'^^ month of November, Mr. Majhew, the fon, took

fliipping at Bofton, to pafs for England, He took his paffage for

England in the beft of two iTiips then bound for London, whereof one James Garrett was mafter. The other fhip, whereof John Pierfe was commander, I went pafTenger therein, with Mr. Hezekiah Ullier fenior of Bofton, and feveral other perfons. Both thefe fhips failed from Bofton in company. Mr. Garrett's ftiip, which was about four hundred tons, had good accommoda- tions, and greater far than the other : and Ihe had aboard her a very rich lading of goods, but moft efpecially of paflengers, about fifty in number; whereof divers of them were perfons of great worth and virtue, both men and women ; efpecially Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Davis, Mr. Ince, and Mr. Pel- ham, all fcholars, and mafters of art, as I take it, moft of them. The fec- ond of thefe, viz. Mr. Davis, fon to one of that name at New Haven, was one of the beft accomplilhed perfons for learning, as ever was bred at Har- vard college in Cambridge in New England. Myfelf was once intended and refolved to pafs in that Ihip : but the mafter, who fometimes had been employed by me, and from whom I expedled a common courtefy, carried it fomething unkindly, as I conceived, about my accommodations of a cabin; which was an occafion to divert me to the other fliip, where I alfo had good company, and my life alfo preferved, as the fequel proved : For this lliip of Garrett's periftied in the paflage, and was never heard of more. And there good Mr. Mayhew ended his days, and finifhed his work."

John Hull also mentions the loss of Garrett's ship, in his Diary (Arch. Amer. iii. 184.) : —

"4th month [June, 1658]. We heard, by two ships that came in from England, that Master James Garret's ship was not arrived, and looked as foundered in the sea, and so persons and estates lost. There was sundry

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