The Joys and Sorrows of an Emigrant Family

by Dorothy May Mercer and Joseph Ruff

The year was 1853, the crossing sickening, crowded, terrifying and almost unbearable, and yet this family of six survived forty miserable days and nights in the dark hold of the John Ruttle, a sailing ship built to haul freight, not passengers. "One who has never had the experience of a voyage across the sea cannot imagine the outpouring of joy as object after object became more visible along the shore." In recalling the experience, author Joseph...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623290910
• ISBN13: 9781623290917
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Mercer Publications & Ministries, Inc.
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"