Salt Lake Herald | 1891-05-30 | Page 4 | Local News

THE COUNTRY has advanced somewhat in religious tolerance during the past two hundred years The Philadelphia Press prints the following letter and vouches for its genuineness saying the original is in the Book of Records kept in an old Quaker meetinghouse at Greenpoint R I SEPTEMBER 15 IG32 To YE AGED AND BELOVED Mr John HIggin son There be now at sea a ship called the Welcome Wel-come which has on board an hundred or more of the htJetics and malignants called Quakers with W Penn who is the chief scamp at the head of them Tho General Court has accordingly given secret orders to Master Malachi Huscott of the brig Porpoise to waylay the said Welcome slyly as near tho cape of Cod as may be and make captive the said Penn and his ungodly crew so that the Lord may be glorified and not mocked on the soil of this new country with the heathen worship of these people Much spoil can be made by selling the whole lot to Barbadoes where slaves fetch good prices in rum and sugar and we shall not only do the Lord great service by punishing the wicked but we shall make great good for his minister and people Master Huscott feels hopeful and I will sot down the news when the ship comes back Yours in ye bowels of Christ Conox MATHER