with them. They stopped at Spanish outposts and Indian villages at night when they could, or camped on islands along the coast. On December 21 they reached the most southerly of the South Carolina plantations. They arrived in Charles Town on December 26. Philadelphia On March 18, 1696 (Old Style, the year number not changing until March 25) Jonathan Dickinson and his family and Robert Barrow sailed from Charles Town, reaching Philadelphia fourteen days later. On April 4, 1697, three days after reaching Philadelphia, Robert Barrow died. Jonathan Dickinson prospered in Philadelphia. He and his wife Mary had four children. He twice served as Mayor of Philadelphia, in 1712–1713 and 1717–1719. Jonathan Dickinson died in 1722. Notes References Andrews, Charles Mclean and Andrews, Evangeline Walker (1945). Jonathan Dickinson's Journal or, God's Protecting Providence. Being the Narrative of a Journey from Port Royal in Jamaica to Philadelphia between August 23, 1696 to April 1, 1697. Yale University Press. Reprinted (1981) Florida Classics Library. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907–21). Volume XV. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature, Early National Literature, Part I, Travellers and Explorers, 1583-1763. 11. Jonathan Dickinson. URL retrieved 24 March 2010. Dickinson, Jonathan (1700). 2nd Ed. God's protecting providence, man's surest help and defence, in times of the greatest difficulty, and most eminent danger. Evidenced in the remarkable deliverance of Robert Barrow, with divers other persons, from the devouring waves of the sea; amongst which they suffered shipwrack: and also, from the cruel, devouring jaws of the inhumane canibals of Florida. London. On-line at American Libraries (Internet Archive) . URL retrieved 24 March 2010. External links "The Life & Times of Jonathan Dickinson" Jonathan Dickinson State Park, Hobe Sound, Florida 1663 births 1722 deaths Explorers of Florida Jamaican non-fiction writers Captives of Native Americans American Quakers Writers of captivity narratives Mayors of Philadelphia Spanish Florida 17th-century Quakers 18th-century Quakers 17th-century English writers 17th-century American writers 17th-century English male writers Shipwreck survivors People of colonial Pennsylvania English male writers Colonial American merchants Male non-fiction writers