“Let it be remembered. It having wrought upon ye minds of some, Friends that dwelt in Ireland, a pressure having laid upon them for some years which they could not get from under the weight of until they gave upp to leave their friends and relations there, together with a comfortable subsistence to transport themselves and familys into this wilderness part of America, and there by expose themselves to difficulties, which, if they could have been easy where they were, in all probability might never have been met with; and in order thereunto, sent from Dublin in Ireland to one Thomas Lurtin a friend in London commander of a Pink, who accordingly came, and made an agreement with him to transport them and their familys into New Jersey, viz.; Mark Newby and family. Thomas Thackarg and family, William Bate and family, George Goldsmith an old man, and Thomas Sharp, a young man, but no familys; and whilst the ship abode in Dublin harbor providing for the voyage, said Thomas Lurtin was taken so ill that could not perform ye same, so that his mate, John Dagger, undertook it. And upon the 19 day of September, in the year of our Lord, 1681, we sett sail, from the place aforesaid, and through the good Providence of God towards us we arrived at Elsinburg, in the country of Salem, upon the 19 day of November following, where we were well entertained at the houses of the Thomsons, who came from Ireland about four years before, who, by their industry, were arrived to a very good degree of living, and from thence we went to Salem, where were several houses yet were vacant of persons who had left the town to settle in ye country, which serve to accommodate them for ye winter, proving moderate, we at Wickacog, among us, purchased a boat of the Swansons, and so went to Burlington to the commissioners, of whom we obtained a warrant of ye surveyor general, which then was Daniel Leeds; and after some considerable search to and fro in that then was called the third or Irish tenth, we at last pitched upon the place now called Newton, which was before the settlement of Phila; Pa; and then applied to S,d Surveyor, who came and laid it out for us; and the next Spring, being the beginning of the year 1682 we all removed from Salem together with Robert Lane, that had been settled there, who came along from Ireland with the Thomsons before hinted, and having expectation of our coming only bought a lot in Salemtown, upon the which he seated himself until our coming, whose proprietary right and ours being of the same nature, could not then take it up in Fenwicks tenth, and so began our settlement; and although we were at times pretty hard bestead, having all our provisions as far as Salem to fetch by water, yet, through the mercy and kindness of God, we were preserved in health and from any extreme difficulties.