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John and Henry Walker, of Whitby, Quakers by religious profession, and principal owners of the ship Freelove, and of another vessel, both of which were constantly employed in the coal trade. The greatest part of his apprenticeship was spent on board the Freelove. John Walker's ships.
Look, Peter; I know the sum 8 pounds, 4 shillings 6 pence exactly: it was the things taken up when Tom Freelove married Nancy, it was the wedding dinner and supper." "What, Nancy who was here just now?" "Yes, that Nancy; and a sweet, modest young creature she was then, and had been well brought up too; she could read and write beautifully, and subscribed to a circulating library, they say.
And Christians, roused at length to a sense of their responsibility, began to devise means, under the blessing of God, for teaching these, their ignorant brethren of the human family, the knowledge of the only true God, and the way of eternal life. In the biographies of Cook the name of the vessel in which he first went to sea is given as the Freelove evidently a misprint.
Whitby was at the time a very important centre of the coasting trade, and possessed several shipbuilding yards of good reputation, and it was in a Whitby-built ship, the Freelove, that Cook made his first voyage.
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