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gates were placed at different parts of this line. At one of these gates, Abraham Carlisle was stationed by direction of General Howe, in order to examine all who went out of the city, or came into it, and it was made his duty to stop any suspicious persons. This constituted the charge exhibited against him. They were both tried by Judge McKean, condemned to be hanged, and were accordingly executed. John Robert's funeral was at Merion, on which occasion a meeting was held, which was very large. He was extensively known, and much beloved. Nicholas Waln, and others, preached, and I attended, as did a large number from the city. Abraham Carlisle was interred in Friend's burial ground in Fourth street; his funeral, also, was very large. When the British troops evacuated Philadelphia, my brother Charles removed to New York, and in 4th month, 1779, 1 also left my native city and came by land to New York. At this period it was very dangerous travelling with-out a passport. I was put over to Staten Island (pos-sessed by the British troops) at night, and next day reached New York. My brother Charles had, some time before, sailed for England. I had sold my horse at Rahway, and had only ninety-six dollars on my reaching New-York, where I was totally a stran-ger, and as to a knowledge of any kind of business, entirely ignorant. My school learning, as I have be-fore mentioned, was very limited, so that, of course, I had to encounter many difficulties, and laboured under great disadvantage in my attempts to acquire a sufficiency to defray my expenses. I took board with William Backhouse, in the house now occupied by Daniel McCormick in Wall street, at the rate ofeight dollars per week, besides having to pay one dollar weekly for washing; Samuel Elain, late of Newport, deceased, John I. Glover, and two or three other respectable merchants, boarded at the same house; becoming acquainted with them was highly useful to me, as it was the first opportunity I had