Crossing the Atlantic Contemporary accounts of the cost of passage from Rotterdam to Philadelphia in 1750 say the fare was £10 (sixty florins) per person, with children five to ten years old charged half-price. Assuming these fares, the Meÿ and Lorentz party of nine adults, and possibly some children, paid Captain Russel at least £90 for the Atlantic crossing.

The amt doesn't mean much, though, though unless we can equate it to todays money. I use to have chart , but of course, can't find it! Sent from Sandra's iPod ???? > Crossing the Atlantic > Contemporary accounts of the cost of passage from Rotterdam to Philadelphia in 1750 say the fare was £10 (sixty florins) per person, with children five to ten years old charged half-price. Assuming these fares, the Meÿ and Lorentz party of nine adults, and possibly some children, paid Captain Russel at least £90 f

http://mykeithfamily.com/index_files/Page509.htm says £10 or 60 florins ca 1750s [I think this is the original source for this info] but the difficulty is that it was only £8 8s in steerage in 1856 which was a 100 years later. It is hard to compare. One source says that in purchasing power a shilling in 1770 is worth about $8 today. The £10 fare is 200 shillings. By this measure that £10 fare is would cost about $1600 today. Another source says: In 1750 £2 5s [45 shillings] has a purchasing power of £299 in 2006 In 1750 a £10 fare [or 200 shillings] would be slightly more than 4 times the above amount. So more than £1200 which today [2012] is slightly more than $1900. Roundtrip airfare from NYC to London on British Air is about $1100 on December 1, 2012. Liane