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trial to both, and the more so, as our youngest child was much indisposed. But the resignation and for-titude with which my beloved companion was sup-ported, helped me to bear the separation beyond my expectation. My beloved friend Joshua Pusey, accompanied me from home. The morning was wet and windy. When we came to Brandywine, it was high. We ferried over, and got to Concord meeting; whichopportunity tended to stay and quiet my mind. — After meeting we went on to Darby, and lodged at our kind friend John Hunt's, where, by him and his beloved Rachel, we were tenderly cared for. 29th. We went to Philadelphia, where I met with John Parrish, William Savery, John Elliott and Jo-seph Moore, who were to be my fellow travellers in the journey. They informed me, that Timothy Pickering and Beverly Randolph proposed to set out on horseback next day. On which information, it was mutually agreed, that John Parrish, Joseph Moore and John Elliott, should proceed with them to Niagara Falls: and William Savery and myself proceed by way of New York to accompany Benja-min Lincoln, who had gone to New York some daysbefore. 30th. I felt my mind not quite easy to proceed, without having an interview with the President of the United States, which I suggested to William Sa-very, and found he was under a like impression. — Accordingly, James Pemberton, William Savery, John Elliott and myself, went about nine o'clock; met with a favourable reception, and had a full op-portunity to relieve our minds: which we thought tended to his satisfaction, as well as ours. About