Sorry, that should have been "arrival", not "arirval". My mistake, not his. Anne C. -----Original Message----- 'On Sunday last arrived two hundred Palatines; most of them being poor, they were obliged to sell themselves and their children for their passage (which is six pistoles in gold per head) within a fortnight of the time of their arirval, or else to pay one pistole more to be carried to Philadelphia. ...' "