Emigration to the New World was certainly fraught with danger...if not from the actual trip, then with the diseases that frequently seemed to be brought aboard by unsuspecting passengers... measles and small pox being the 2 I've read most about....I always think of the horror one must have felt when those all around you were dying, and you were all trapped on the same ship, with no where to get away from it. (if memory serves, around 1/3 of the passengers on the Welcome died.) Another thing that I have found surprising, in reading contemporary reports of life in the New World.... from runaway descriptions in newspapers, etc, to the physical descriptions of Rev. War soldiers...was the large number of people who HAD small pox and survived. I suppose I thought most of those who had it, died, but I'm not sure this is true - there are tons of folks described as pox marked, who lived to 'tell the tale'! S. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/394 - Release Date: 7/20/2006