ing, at half after eight o'clock; music, consisting of an organ, and singing in the German language. Mr. Edwine gave a discourse in German, and then the same in English. Mrs. Langley showed us the Society of Single Women; then Mr. Edwine showed us the waterworks and the manufactures; - there are six sets of works in one building; a hemp-mill, an oil-mill, a mill to grind bark for the tanners; then the fullers-mill, both of cloth and leather, the dyer's house, and the shearer's house. They raise a great deal of madder. We walked among the rows of cherry trees, with spacious orchards of apple trees on each side of the cherry walk. The Society of Single Men have turned out for the sick. 24. Wednesday. Fine morning. We all went to meeting, last evening, where Mr. Edwine gave the people a short discourse in German, and the congregation sung, and the organ played. There were about two hundred women and as many men; the women sat together in one body, and the men in another; the women dressed all alike; the women's heads resembled a garden of white cabbage heads. 25. Thursday. Rode from Bethlehem through Allentown, yesterday, to a German tavern, about eighteen miles from Reading; rode this morning to Reading, where we breakfasted, and heard for certain that Mr. Howe's army had crossed the Schuylkill. Colonel Hartley gave me an account of the late battle between the enemy and General Wayne. Hartley thinks that the place was improper for battle, and that there ought to have been a retreat. November 11. Tuesday. Set off from Yorktown; reached Lancaster. 12. From Lancaster to Reading; slept at General Mifflin's. 13. Reached Strickser's. 14. Dined at Bethlehem; slept at Easton, at Colonel Hooper's; supped at Colonel Dean's. Met Messrs. Ellery and Dana, and Colonel Brown, on the 15th, a few miles on this side of Reading. We have had five days of very severe weather; raw, cold, frosty, snowy; this cold comes from afar. The lakes, Champlain and George, have been boisterous, if not frozen. Will the enemy evacuate Ticonderoga ? Are they supplied with provisions for the winter? Can they bring them from Canada, by water or ice? Can they get them in the neighboring country? Can we take Mount Independence in the winter? 15. Saturday. At Willis's, at the Log Jail in New Jersey, twenty-eight miles from Easton. 17. Monday. Rode yesterday from Log Jail, Willis's; breakfasted at Hoffman's, at Sussex Court House, and supped and lodged at David McCambly's, thirty-four miles from Willis's. The taverners, all along, are complaining of the guard of lighthorse which attended Mr. H. They did not pay, and the taverners were obliged to go after them to demand their dues. The expense, which is supposed to be the country's, is unpopular. The Tories laugh at the tavern keepers, who have often turned them out of their houses for abusing Mr. H. They now scoff at them for being imposed upon by their king, as they call him. Vanity is always mean; vanity is never rich enough to be genDined at Brewster's, in Orange county, State of New York. Brewster's grandfather, as he tells me, was a clergyman, and one of the first adventurers to Plymouth; he died, at ninetyfive years of age, a minister on Long Island; left a son who lived to be above eighty, and died leaving my landlord, a son who is now, I believe, between sixty and seventy. The manners of this family are exactly like those of the New England people; a decent grace before and after meat; fine pork and beef, and cabbage and turnip. erous. 18. Tuesday. Lodged at Brooks's, five miles from the North River. Rode to the Continental Ferry, crossed over, and dined at Fishkill, at the Dr's. Mess, near the Hospital, with Dr. Samuel Adams, Dr. Eustis, Mr. Wells, &c. It was a feast; salt pork and cabbage, roast beef and potatoes, and a noble suet pudding, grog, and a glass of Port. Our best road home is through Litchfield and Springfield. Morehouse's is a good tavern, about twenty-four miles, three or four miles on this side of Bull's Iron Works; fifty miles to Litchfield; Captain Storm's, eight miles; Colonel Vandeborough's, five miles; Colonel Morehouse's, nine miles; Bull's Iron Works, four miles; no tavern; Cogswell's Iron Works, ten miles; a tavern; Litchfield, eight miles; cross Mount Tom to get to Litchfield. 19. Wednesday. Dined at Storm's. Lodged last night and breakfasted this morning at Loudoun's, at Fishkill. Here we are, at Colonel Morehouse's, a member of Assembly for Dutchess county. 20. Thursday. To Harrington, Phillips's, five miles; to Yale's, in Farmington, five miles; to Humphrey's, in Simsbury, seven miles; to Owen's, in Simsbury, seven miles; to Sheldon's, in Suffield, ten miles; Kent's, in Suffield, five miles; to Springfield, ten miles. 21. Friday. To Hays's, Salmon Brook, five miles; to Southwick, Loomis's, six miles; to Fowler's, three miles; to Westfield, Clap's, four miles; to Captain Clap's, four miles this side N. H.; to North Hampton, Lyman's or Clark's. All the notes made by Mr. Adams, during these years, have been put together and set apart in the following pages, with the addition of such explanations, by the Editor, as seem necessary to make them readily understood. Whilst the interest attaching to some of the minor questions discussed has passed away, it is believed that what has been preserved, upon such subjects as the state of trade, the authority to institute governments, and the formation of the Articles of Confederation, fragmentary as it is, will not be without its value to those who desire to understand the true history of the Revolution. |