Phases of Catholicity in Western Pennsylvania : During the Eighteenth Century
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iS Thwaites, Early Western Journals, 1748-1765, p. 216. Also on other occasions; thus a note to this passage saj's: "The Indian traders used to buy the transported Irish, and other convicts, as servants, to be employed in carrying up the goods among the Indians. The ill behaviour of these people has always hurt the character of the English among the Indians." Thwaites attributes this statement to Charles Thomason, a Philadelphia Quaker, later secretary of the Continental Congress. Many Catholic...s, Irish and German, came into this country at that time as "Redemptioners" induced to emi- gration by "Eldoradean promises," and when they arrived they were sold at auction for their passage money at £10 to serve their masters for three to four years (Ganss, History of St. Patrick's Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, p. 32). 26 The French came down the river on April 16 in the afternoon. There- fore the first Mass in the place that is now Pittsburgh could not have been before April 17, a Thursday.
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