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On the 12th day of the 10th Mo 1797 after an humbling time with my dear Wife and Children, I left home in order to Join a Committee of our last Yearly Meeting appointed the to Visit some friend in upper Canada and parts adjacent, my Dear Wife bearing me company as far as my soninlaw Benjamin Cooke’s, I went that Evening to Na then Sharples’s where by agreement I met with Jacob Lindley and James Wilson two of the aforementioned Com--mittee. 13th a pleasent Morning the Wind South--erly, dined at John Scarlets in the forest 20 miles, pased over a rough hilly country up the waters of the Brandy--wine, much of the Land thin tho che--quered with some good plantations pretty well improved, pased throughthe East end of Little Connestoga Valley a fruitful spot, the hills about the forest very steep, and in places covered with stones, from scarlet’s to Schuylkill 5 miles