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Poster for The AMERICAN
LINE
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courtesy of
The Ships List
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After arriving at Philadelphia
on 2 March - according to Hallam - they ‘took up’ a farm at Bladensburg,
about four miles north-west of Washington D.C. They must have moved
fast to find the farm and get the crops planted by late April or early
May, although the census on 7 June shows a farm labourer Thomas Cash boarding
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In early 1880,
Henry had another try at settling in the United States, perhaps stimulated
by a subscription to the periodical Sidney’s Emigrant’s Journal: Information,
Advice and Amusement for Emigrants and Colonizers, a copy of which
survives in the Payne family papers.
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It is also possible that
the decision to travel to the U.S. may have been stimulated by news of
the death of his cousin Lucy in Pennsylvania in May 1879. This time
his eldest son Charles Vincent, then aged 12, accompanied him, and they
left England from the port of Liverpool in late February, aboard the S.S.
British
Crown. This brand new steam ship of the American Line had only
come into service four months earlier, and travelled directly to the port
of Philadelphia. |
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The BRITISH CROWN, 1881,
by Antonio Jacobsen (1850 - 1921)
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courtesy of
Rehs Galleries, Inc.
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