The language lived longer in Ohio than it would live on the Isle of Man. Thomas Kelly's letter from Ohio in 1828 dropped into Manx twice. On the night the emigrants arrived, thirty-three Manx people gathered in one house and Manx was spoken in plenty. Pastor Cannell held services in Manx. George Borrow met a woman whose son lived in a place where Manx was spoken. But the arc was the same: Manx spoken freely by the first generation, used as a secret parents' language within a generation, then gone. The institutional supports were unnecessary in Ohio because the Manx had each other. But as the community dispersed, the language dispersed with it.