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(Recollecting the Susquehannah at Wright's Ferry) thought it cept myself more than half of one. Two miles along those brought us to Daniel Byrnes's, where we seemed at home again, staid through the heat of the day, the weaker now growing worser, and rode 12 miles in the evening to this hospitable mansion, whose venerable Owner now in his 79th year, when he crossed the river to settle here 40 years ago was the only Friend in there part and held a meeting at his own house some time, has lived to see ten of his children married and settled among Friends so near him that he could visit them all in a day. Tomorrow evening we intended making a short stage to a Friends house, and expect to reach Albany, about 80 mile from here, by 3rd day evening from whence I shall probably write to you again, with all the dutiful affections of Husband, Son and Brother Joseph Sansom