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a sister of the Rev. Tobias Wagner one of the original founders of the German Reform Church in Pennsylvania.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~whitakerwilford/chap20.html
"“The good ship Lydia sailed from Rotterdam 19 Aug 1742. A law had been passed that all ships to America had to first touch in England, so our Captain James Abercrombie sailed from Rotterdam to Deal, England, which had no harbor, so ships anchored off-shore and the captain used the ship’s boat to go ashore. On the second day at sea, our ‘pfarrar’, Rev. Tobias Wagner, held the first Sabbath service at sea. The captain had decided to go “north about” which would take us north of the British Isles. We had to “tack” frequently as the winds were generally blowing from the northwest. We kept well off the shore of England and Scotland. “Captain Abercrombie kept well off the shore of the Hebrides Islands as he neared the 60th parallel, then headed southwest, also keeping well off the coast of Ireland. The crew took frequent “soundings” because these were “shoal” waters that were not too deep. On the ninth day at sea, a Sabbath, Rev. Wagner told us the story of Jonah from the Old Testament and contrasted us as being “cast away at sea and under the protection of God, our Father.”"