Hello list, Ginger asked me to share the tale of the ill-fated boat "Love and Unity," on which Casper Schürch came to America. Here is a synopsis: THE NORRIS > These immigrants were the unfortunate survivors of the ill-fated shipLOVE > AND UNITY, which landed at Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, after overone > hundred of it's one hundred and fifty passengers had died on board ship.See > Diffenderffers, The German Immigration into Pennsylvania, Lancaster,1900, > pp 63-68.Ship Norris [List18 B] Palatines imported in the Ship Norris, > Thomas Loyd, Master, fromBoston. This Declaration signed May 15th, > 1732.*Kasper Schirch Johannes (O) BehnMarthin Gassner > Christian (X) ReningerMathias (X) Weber Johannes (H) > HermanJohann Philip Weber Valentine (X) WestheberJohann Jacob > Manncher [?] Johann Georg LiebensteinJohann Michael Sigmund > Michael AnderrassJohann Ditrich Jungmann"At the Courthouse of Philadelphia, > May 15th, 1732,...Thirteen Palatines,who with their Families, making in > all---Persons, were imported here in theShip Norris, Thomas Lloyd, Master, > from Boston, did this day take & subscribe the Effect of the Oaths of > Allegiance, Supremacy & abjuration;and likewise did repeat and Sign the > Declaration inserted in the Minute of the 21st Sept. 1727." From the > Minutes of the Provincial Council, printed inColonial Records, Vol. III, p. > 428 f.[List 18C] Palatines fr. the Ship Norris, Thomas Loyd, Master, from > Boston.Casper Schirch Johannes (O) BehnMarthin Gasner > Christian (X) ReningerMathias (X) Weber > Johannes (H) HermanJohann Philib Weber Valentine (X) > WestheberJohann Michael Sigmund Michael AnderrasJohann Ditrich > Jungmann**Philadelphia May 15th 1732.Present The Honorable The Governor, > with several Magistrates.The foregoing Qualifications were taken & > subscribed by the several Foreigners, whose Names are above written.Robert > Charles, CI. Con.** John George Jungmann, a son of John Ditrich, has left > athe followingdescription of this journey in his autobiography: "Supplied > with provisions for twelve weeks, we sailed to Falmouth, England, where we > stayed three weeks and where we loaded up many necessary things. Twelve > days after our departure from this place, the captain assured us that we > had covered half of our journey, which revived our courage. After that we > had a calm, followed by a severe storm, which raged exceedingly. After > having traveled eight weeks, water and bread were curtailed, and during the > last six weeks we received no bread and nothing else from the captain than > daily a pint of water for myself, my father and my sister. From this one > can infer how we lived. Every sensitive heart will shudder when I say that > rats and mice and the above mentioned water were our only food. A rat was > sold for 1 1/2s and a mouse for 6d. The captain thought that all the > passengers had valuables with them. Hence he did not want to land us, but > left us to starve to death, in which he had a large measure of success, for > of the 156 souls only 48 reached the American shore, and hardly a single > person would have survived, if the remaining passengers had not revolted > and seized the captain. Whereupon after three days, in the week before > Christmas, we landed not far from Rhode Island, after having spent 25 weeks > on this journey....I was in such a miserable condition that I could not > stand erect, but almost crawled on hands and feet." See Trexler, Skizzen > aus dem Lecha Thale, p. 37; and Diffenderffer, The German Immigration into > Pennsylvania, pp 64-68. Ref.: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dubbie/norris.html It was under these conditions that my 7th great grandfather came to America. His first wife and child had died on the crossing. Justin Justin Kirk Houser Genealogist/Researcher of Central PA and Beyond Main Lines: Houser, Breon, Shawley, Ranio/Hrynio (and others) President, BAHS Class of 2003 Student Representative, BASD Board of Education Listowner, PACENTRE-L@Rootsweb.com Historian, Schürch Association of North America (specialty Central PA lines) Member, Valley View United Methodist Church "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature"