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Joshua Sharpless' Journal [Visit to Upper Canada and Parts Adjacent], 1797

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then sat at Thomas Rice’s, he was brought up among friends but has no right, his Wife was disowned by Buckingham Monthly Meeting, they are examplary, and I hope thoughtfull, and have eight Children mostly small thence to John Taylors, ½ a mile he was dis-owned by the Falls Monthly Meeting his Wife and two hopefull Children are members of Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, she appears to be a Motherly concerned friend— the face of the Country from John Hills mostly flat and miry till within one mile of John Darlins, then commences the Short Hills which produces remark--ably steep pitches we then pased over 2 or more Miles of the most beautiful Chesnut Timber I remember to have ever seen, the Woods had been lately burned to clear the leaves out of the way of gathering the Chesnuts, they we saw them lay ing very