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to a convenient place, she mounted, and so rode away upon the bare back. Being without shoes or stockings, her bare legs and feet hung dangling by the side of the governor's horse. Although William Penn was at this time both governor and proprietor, he did not think it beneath him thus to help along a poor bare footed girl on her way to meeting, and notwithstanding the maxims and customs of the world, these little kind offices to those in low stations in life, were so far from lowering him in the estimation of those he was appointed to govern, that there perhaps never was a governor, who stood higher in the opinion of those governed by him, than William Penn did. In repeating this anecdote, the old friend ge- nerally concluded her story with the observation, that, there were no such governors now-a-days. 3d Month, 5th. I had the company of O. and J. J. the latter of whom related to me a tran- saction of his, when but about 14 years of age, which manifested a considerable degree of firm- ness in one so young. At the time of the revolu- tion, a neighbour was condemned to death tor his attachment to the English government. Under these melancholy circumstances, the near connex- ions of the sufferer, were anxious that the body of their unhappy relative, should be decently interred in the family burying ground at Merion; but con-