Thomas Lurting publishes a popular and dramatic Quaker convincement story. In it, Lurting declares himself redeemed from a life of cruelty as a boatswain's mate by "Roger Dennis, who was called a Quaker, whom I intirely [and 'dearly'] loved." This autobiographical story marks the first appearance of a sailor-lover-quaker triangle which reappears in fact and fiction during the nineteenth century. I wish to suggest that Daniel DeFoe fictionalized the Lurting story--see 1720. []