and may ye Benediction of Heaven accompany him in his Journey. Deus benedicat susceptis ejus & ferat eum ad amicos suos maxima prosperiate.
Dabam, Providentiae Philadelphiae
Comitatu Pennsylvania in America, die 25. Apr. A.D. 1754.
John Diemer, Cap.
Sam Kennedy, M.D.
Henery Pawling, Esqr.
T.
Henry Marsteller,
Matthias Gmelin.
I have carefully inquired into the condition of the country; and what I describe here, I have partly experienced myself, and partly heard from trustworthy people who were familiar with the circumstances. I might possibly be able to relate a great deal more, if I had thought that I should ever publish something about Pennsylvania. For I always considered myself far too weak for such an undertaking. But the fatalities which I suffered on my journey to and fro (for in the country itself I fared well, because I immediately found good support and could get along well), and the evil tricks of the newlanders, which they intended to play me and my family, as I shall relate hereafter, have awake
