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Even Quakeresses sometimes smoked. A list of the sea-stores put on board the ship in which certain friends-Samuel Fothergill, Mary Peisly, Katherine Payton and others-sailed from Philadelphia for England in June 1756, is still extant. In those days Atlantic passages were long, and might last for an indefinite period, and passengers provisioned themselves accordingly. On this occasion the passage though stormy was very quick, for it lasted only thirty-four days.
