Thursday ye same Easterly wind blew all day & night; & ye next[15] [May] day; so yt soe of ye seamen thought we were coe by this tyme 100 leagues fro England, but toward night ye wind was calme.
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Saturday we were becalmed all day. This day met vs a little shipp of Bristoll yt came fro Christopher Ilands.
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Sabath being ye first Lords day we held at sea was very calme, especially in the morning, but we were disturbed in or morning Service by ye approach of a Biskaniers shippe, a man of warre, yt made towards vs, & manned out his boate to viewe vs: But fynding vs too strong for him he durst not venture to assault vs, but made off.
This day my 2 children Samuel & Mary began to be sicke of ye small-pockes & purples together, wch was brought into ye ship by one Mr Browne wch was sicke of ye same at Graues End, who it pleased God to make ye first occasio of bringing yt contagious sicknes among vs, wherewth many were after afflicted.
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Monday calme still, ye wind being no: w: blowing a little towards euening, but contrary to or course.
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Tewsday wind so: w: as little helpfull as ye former & blowing uery weake. This day ye mr of or ship, my selfe & another went aboard the Lions whelpe, where Mr Gibs made vs welcoe wth bountifull entertaynemt. And this day towards night my daughter grew sicker & many blew Spots were seene vpo her breast, wch affrighted vs. At ye first wee thought yy had bene ye plague tokens; but we found afterwards yt it was onely an high measure of ye infectio of ye pockes, wch were strucke agayne into ye child, & so it was Gods will ye child dyed about 5 of ye clocke at night, being ye first in or shipp yt was buried in the bowells of ye great Atlanticke Sea; wch as it was a griefe to vs her parents, & a sorrow to all ye rest as being ye beginning of a contagious disease & mortality: so in ye same judgemt it pleased God to remember mercy in ye child, in freeing it fro a world of misery wherein otherwise shee had liued all her daies. For being about 4 yeares ould a yeare since, wee know not by what meanes, sweyed in ye backe, so yt it was broken & grew crooked, & ye joynts of her hipps were loosed & her knees went crooked pittifull to see. Since wch tyme shee hath had a most lamentable payne in her belly, & would oft times cry out in ye day & in her sleep also my belly, wch declared soe extraordinary distemper. So yt in respect of her wee had cause to take her death as a blessing fro ye Lord to shorten her miserie.