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In conversation with her daughters, I under-stood that that the family were not aware that her complaint was the yellow fever, until after her decease. She was preserved in so much stillness and quietness, and, apparently, under so little bodily pain during the progress of the disorder, that they had no apprehension of its being this dreadful complaint, until afterwards informed by the medical attendants. I lodged this night and the preceding at T. W.'s. 10th Month, 24th. I came down with T. W. in his chair, to Greenwich, on business. There I received letters from home, and also forwarded divers others to England, by the Centurion. 10th Month, 25th. This day and yesterday I made my home at F. T.'s, where I lodged. 10th Month, 26th. This afternoon I left F. T.'s, and went on board a Hudson packet, called the Traveller, of which Ely Bunker, a friend of Hud- son, was owner and captain. As soon as the tide served, we sailed up the North River, having in company a young man from Hudson, and a young woman that way on her way to visit a sister who lay sick at Hudson. 10th Month, 27th. This and the preceding night I lodged on board the packet. In sailing along this