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He noted that Burlington retained its \"peaceful, graceful `Green bank'.\"  At Mt. Holly, he addressed the issue of people ageing, while \"the houses and streets seemed to have renewed their age by improvements, and the glare of paint and ornament.\"                     While on his way to Chester County, Watson remarked on a number of historic sites and villages.  He noted that the farms around West Chester were indicative of a great deal of wealth.  This section also contains a list of nine properties he inherited along with what he called \"memoranda of relatives--Chester Co.\"  He listed relatives of his father's first wife, Ann Beeson.                     Watson devoted two pages to the New York harbor, remarking that \"I can conceive of nothing more lovely.\"  He depicts the surrounding land and ocean.                     Watson's trip to Poetsquessink on July 4, 1832 afforded him with the opportunity to reflect on the spot that was once chosen as the location of Philadelphia.  While he was there with Dr. Gibbon, he was entertained at the Bake House, which he described in detail.  He also visited the estate of Benjamin Rush and sketched the homestead.                     The volume closes with a two page record of his trip to Franconia Town in May 1833.  He commented on the history of the area and German settlers. \nWatson was born in Batsto, New Jersey, the son of William and Lucy Fanning Watson.  In 1806 he opened a mercantile house in Philadelphia and was later listed as a bookseller and stationer.  In 1814, Watson accepted a position as cashier of the Bank of Germantown and received a notary public commission.  He remained with the bank until 1848.  He then became secretary-treasurer of the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, where he remained until 1859.  Watson was also an amateur historian and a pioneer in the use of oral histories and public opinion questionnaires.  He published, among other works, Annals of Philadelphia, Historic Tales of Olden Time Concerning the Settlement and Advancement of New York City and State, and Historic Tales of Olden Time Concerning the Early Settlement  and Progress of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.  In 1812 he married Phebe Barron Crowell and had 7 children."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1831 - D:00 M:00 Y:1832"},{"label":"Creator","value":"John Fanning Watson (1779-1860)"},{"label":"Place","value":"Wilmington, Delaware; Burlington, New Jersey; Mount Holly, New Jersey; New York, New York; Chester County, Pennsylvania"},{"label":"Format","value":["Manuscript"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Diaries","Men-Diaries","New Jersey-Description and travel","Pennsylvania-Description and travel","New York (N.Y.)-Description and travel"]},{"label":"Identifier","value":"Collection 189\n83x174.7"},{"label":"Finding Aid","value":"http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0189.htm"},{"label":"Rights","value":["No Copyright - United States"]},{"label":"Source Collection","value":["Watson Family Papers (Col. 189)"]}],"description":"Summer Excursions of year 1831.  Trips to Wilmington - Burlington - Mount Holly - Also - Trip to Chester County.  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To Note & to observe.        Trip to Wilmington -                                                                                                                }  July 1831-  Trip to Burlington & Mt. Holly      Trip through Chester County & Salem idem.     Reminiscence of New York Harbour.    Trip to Poetquescink & Bake House – July 1832."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/44fba6d0-ea62-4776-b783-d5b252671803/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_3","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"1","height":2425,"width":1525,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/de4171f9-118f-4abd-8da3-e519049c325f/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/de4171f9-118f-4abd-8da3-e519049c325f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1525},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_3","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Excursion to Wilmington – (July 1831)       Wishing to give my boy Barron an opportunity of seeing some of the “matters &   things” of which he had heard much & seen little – Such as Steam boats – Ships – a big   River &c, I told him to prepare to go with me to Wilmington on the 4 July –     We started from Philada on the morning of the 3d July at 7, O’Clock in the Steam   boat Wm Penn – so great a deck filled with so many people & all the apparatus of such a   big vapour vessel filled his mind with wonder - & not less so when we set down to such a   long breakfast table, the whole length of the hulk –     My own first impressions were in looking round & about me, that the broad-River   grows narrow to the imagination in a lapse of years.  I suspect that nothing deemed big &   great to youth seems so large in maturer years.  Days & weeks are not so long – Hills &   Rivers not so big – Roads & streets not so wide – “The Play-ground Tree, seems not half   so big – so green”!     I had hard work to convince or explain to Barron as we passed numerous boats &   vessels going on our way, that they were not anchored still.     The passing of numerous localities along the River made me remember first   impressions in my boyhood – how I once felt & thought, so different from now, when a   lad sailing-fishing, or fowling, at places down below “the Point house” – then seeking   Reed bird & Rail among the River Reed, or fishing at an enclosed place in the stream. –   Then how remote seemed Fort Mifflin far off in the horizon, & Count Donop’s ground of   Enterprise & death at the “Red Bank”. – How quickly"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/de4171f9-118f-4abd-8da3-e519049c325f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_4","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"10","height":2425,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2aa56e38-c1a9-46a4-9e3f-20374a586294/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2aa56e38-c1a9-46a4-9e3f-20374a586294","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_4","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"At Burlington, I visited by request of Comdre Barron, his two amiable daughters – lately   married to Lieutts. Pendergrasse & Blake – They were boarding with the Lady of the late   Genl Bloomfield.  Once Governor, & once greatest: - So whirls the wheel of fortune.     Went over to Bristol – dined on Green turtle Soup.  Saw there much military   display & music from the City.  Bristol has grown into a very pretty place along it green   River bank.  Its high level elevation reminds one much of the original intended River   Bank  before “the Great Towne” of Philada. – Examined near there, the great Bason,   fronting along the Delaware River, & showing the outlet of the newly constructed Canal,   passing in the rear of the Town from the Lehigh River – the grand passage for the Coal   arks –     At 4, O.Clock P.M. we left Bristol in the Steam boat, filled with compy – military   & their music, playing lovely airs – along the River – The effect was fine.  We reached   Philada at about Sundown, - & unexpectedly got into a small wagon & reached home to a   good supper & a vigorous appetite; - having crowded into two days of Wanderings &   Excursion, incidents Enough to fill the mind, & move the tongue of my boy, who poured   forth a full stream of enlivened description – Should he rememberd them as they   occurred, in time to come, he may feel some gratification in referring to these pages –             Finis."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2aa56e38-c1a9-46a4-9e3f-20374a586294/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_5","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"11","height":2425,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/bcc06853-7ea1-460d-b2ba-001e86d4cfe0/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/bcc06853-7ea1-460d-b2ba-001e86d4cfe0","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_5","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"A Trip through Chester County –        on Thursday the 14 July 1831. I started from home in a well appointed Sulky for the   purpose of visiting my several tracts of Lands in Chester County.     I started at 7, O.Clo. in the morning – a fine, clear morning of sufficient coolness   & freshness to promise a fine fair day & agreeable ride – Crossed the Schuylkill over the   Great new bridge at the Falls.  The whole scenery there is fine, yet much of the wild   effect of the former Falls are lost, by having the River raised above the embedded Rocks   by the artificial Dam. – Determined to go up the SoWestern side of the Schuylkil as far as   the Swedes ford – It is a most picturesque & cheering ride – yourself riding near the   River at the foot of the high & rugged Hills, covered from the top to the base, with   luxuriant growth of Forest trees, & jutting rocks, with occasional gurgling Rills stealing   their descending way to the River.  Ever & anon you pass some open cultivation, but   generally your ride is under lofty trees & agreeable shade.  The opposite village of   Manayunk, its pleasant hills behind it, its thriving & busy stir – the passage of canal boats   – the blow of horns all gave life & animation to the scene.  Amidst all these agreeable   objects, I felt whirld along in a pleasant manner, & my own mind & my reflections were   good company quite up to"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/bcc06853-7ea1-460d-b2ba-001e86d4cfe0/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_6","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"12","height":2425,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3d1f6a4d-123f-40fa-849c-50ff27c5d526/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3d1f6a4d-123f-40fa-849c-50ff27c5d526","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_6","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Swedes Ford, where I reached about 10 ½ O.Clock.  There refreshing & driving my horse   into the Schuylkil at the Ford, I was prepared to renew my journey on to Valley forge.    But while at the Inn – a poor one, I sat down in the Piazza to meditate on things past –   there I reviewed the image of Washingtons passing army – once going from White marsh   to seek their rough winter quarters at Valley forge – over this River they joined waggon   to wagon & made a bridge!  I thought too, still earlier, of those days when the Swedes   once thought all these lands their own & thought themselves forever destined to be the   good Colonists of their Fatherland.  I had before passed their ancient Swedish Church &   had looked over its graveground Walls.  The oldest looking Soap Stone there told the   name of “Dinah Rambo” –     Nothing can be presented more beautiful to the eye than the prospect of   Norristown seen from the top of the Hill, which I ascended opposite to it on the way to   the Valley forge.  The village is seen gently rising to an eminence – the houses all white   & gleaming – contrast finely with all the back ground of verdant or golden fields or   deeply shaded woody Hills – all around the horizon – There you see the Schuylkil glidg   gently with silvery surface – then plunging over a wide dam – then surmounted by a great   & expensive bridge.  I thought it a most beautiful position for a country seat !"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3d1f6a4d-123f-40fa-849c-50ff27c5d526/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_7","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"13","height":2425,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e8aacd73-2122-4355-a797-71ae7f65ea56/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e8aacd73-2122-4355-a797-71ae7f65ea56","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_7","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"I went through a country of usual character - & arrived at Valley forge at 1, O,Clock –   My reflections by the way, were engaged in revising the images of those military men –   British & American, who once so used those roads – Those days of trial & severity.    What a peaceful happy land, they have since left us – In mean time all of them are gone!       There had been recently a heavy rain flood – the Valley forge dam was washed   away!  I saw there the residence of Washington – also one Stephens, whom Washington   had once called upon after the Peace, to ask him to take with him an early morning ride   over all the grounds of his former exercises – He was so solely attired as a citizen, that   the farmer did not know him till he had spent half a day in the ride, & was then told by   the General who he was!     I dined at the Inn of John Workizer on the Hill, who told me his house had been   the Soldiers’ hospital & that the embanked entrenchments or stockades, were very   extensive in every direction.  From his house I saw in a line about half a mile SoWest in   the woods on rising grounds my 5 Acre lot of Chesnut woods – valuable for making   Rails.  It has from it a fine view over the Country – This is called Schuylkill Township –     Went next, towards my 15 Acres tract of Wood land in Charleston Township on the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e8aacd73-2122-4355-a797-71ae7f65ea56/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_8","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"14","height":2425,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9d0cec84-54c6-4545-9792-07c164ac9c12/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9d0cec84-54c6-4545-9792-07c164ac9c12","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_8","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Valley Hill – situated by the Little Conestogo turnpike – It is 1 ½ mile from the Steam-  boat Tavern post office 23 miles from Philada on the Lancaster Turnpike –     I left the Inn of Workizer at 3. P.M. – rode through a country exhibiting good   cultivation – much signs of prosperous people – often ascendg high hills & get extensive   & fine views – Saw occasional ravages of the flood at Mill dams – Went by the head of   Pickering Creek, *  saw the dams all swept down, & found a rocky & uggly passage of   the Creek, then in sight of the Yellow Springs – the place of gaiety & pleasure, to which I   had directed my purpose – Reached there before dusk & made my Stay – But little compy   yet got there – “not yet hot enough” to send out panting citizens – Staid at the elegant   House of the Widow Holman – The other Inn is Olwines – There are several houses in   the village, all white & showy – among them is the identical long range of frame building   once the Hospital to the Amcan Army.  The village is placed at the lower part of a rising   Mountain & from the Mountain top – at the summer house, is a fine view of distant   country – While here I took some plunges into the cold Chalebyate - not so chilling as I   expected from hear-say – The Son Samuel Holman, consented to be      *  This Pickering Creek running through Charlestown Township – indicates to me that   both have been named after Charles Pickering who counterfeited in Penn’s day!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9d0cec84-54c6-4545-9792-07c164ac9c12/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_9","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"15","height":2425,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/115d8371-d11d-4742-a077-7d98f24655b5/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/115d8371-d11d-4742-a077-7d98f24655b5","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_9","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"my agent for the tract of land at the Valley hill & to pay my taxes.  His sister reminded   me of the appearance of Mrs Comdre Barron, so that I at first thought it was her, as she   had but lately been there with the Comdre – I could not but feel a sense of loneliness to   see a place, so entirely laid out for refined compy on a large scale, so destitute of the   desired gay throng. – The Spring here is finely shaded by lofty Button woods once   planted near it.  The whole place is pretty.     Started from Yellow Springs after breakfast – went thence across the country by   the ancient Red Lion Inn to Downingtown, which is situated in the beautiful & rich “great   Valley”. – Passed through considerable portions of Wood lands – saw but few travellers –   men generally in their harvest fields – The Hills were stony & washed – Downingtown a   good village, looks like wealthy farmers – rode thence along the Turnpike, across a   bridge over the head water of the Brandywine, had, had a sudden rain flood here – the   greatest for 30 years – swept off much – Saw several marks of the Rail road near – Went   off into the old Lancaster road from the high ground of which I had extensive views of   the range of the Great Valley crossing the whole County & prettily bounded, by fine   ranges of woody hills called “North & South Hills” –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/115d8371-d11d-4742-a077-7d98f24655b5/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_10","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"16","height":2425,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a80c77e1-deeb-4fad-ba7c-b855ae78eb70/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a80c77e1-deeb-4fad-ba7c-b855ae78eb70","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_10","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"As I looked out abroad upon the numerous & distant farms below me, I thought them the   proper Lordly families of the Country, because such fine lands must have enriched their   possessors, & the first choice of them, must have been by those superior men in the first   settlers who had the best pecuniary means to procure best homes – They were generally   Welsh –     I often have occasion to notice the unfeeling neglect which so frequently shuns   trees before the Country Inns – I notice too a great omission of apple orchards – Peaches   are wholy gone.     I dined at 1. O.Clo – at Waggonstown 38 ms & there engaged the Inn Keeper    Joseph Hughes PM to be my friend and agent to pay taxes for my 4 tracts, not far from   him – Say 2 in West Caln, & 2 in Sadsbury – They are all in a State of Woods –     Left his house & travelled across the country SoWest.d  - went by way of   Sadsburyville*.   Thence to Cochranville – Russelville – Hayville, & arrived at Oxford –   5 miles only from the Maryland line, by dusk – This forms the extreme end of my   journey, being just 50 miles from Philada – My last 15 miles of journey was much the   easiest road – being most level, but country & farms not so good.        Marginal note: * I went on the turnpike by this town to the 43 mile stone"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a80c77e1-deeb-4fad-ba7c-b855ae78eb70/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_11","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"17","height":2425,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/60ff9a2e-2d3e-4071-9ee5-b9980aa7a9b3/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/60ff9a2e-2d3e-4071-9ee5-b9980aa7a9b3","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_11","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"I made my supper & stay with Mr. Timothy Kirk Stage owner – Post Mr &c – He is my   agent to pay taxes for the tract in Upper Oxford 38 Acres - & also for the tract of West   Nottingham of 150 Acres – both only a few miles distant.  Oxford is but a small village –   has a Presbyterian Church – Churches were scarce through all my ride – Surely the   Priests have not had much rule or much fleece!  I was surprised to see – so far, so few of   Friends – I expected more in Chester County –     On Saturday monrning after an early breakfast, I started at 6, O.Clock for new   London X Road – a neat village of brick – thence onward to near Kennetts Square* - The   road was generally good & easy – considerable of Woods & shade – Lands sandy & light   – begin now to see Friends & their Meeting houses – From New London to K Square   land improves & is limed.  Cross over the long bridge at the Wilmington & Gap turnpike   – thence go off to the “Hammer & trowel” Inn – thence 1 ½ mile to George Gregg’s farm   2 ½ miles from Kennetts Square – He is descended of that Gregg who married Beeson,   the sister of my father’s first wife Ann Beeson.  Here I talked over Family names &   connections of days lang syne, & felt strong emotions at thinking I was then on the spot,   where      Marginal note: *The place where Kuyphauser’s hessians were once encampd – Where   also our volunteers were located in the 2d British War –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/60ff9a2e-2d3e-4071-9ee5-b9980aa7a9b3/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_12","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"18","height":2425,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/35f551e4-284b-4b33-9b5a-2e9bbcdb654f/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/35f551e4-284b-4b33-9b5a-2e9bbcdb654f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_12","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"my Father & Mother had been in the joyous days of their youth.  I felt what the Poet   meant when he said “Twill soothe to be where I had been” – The years & the persons   were all gone – melancholy & fond remembrance stole over my soul - & I rubb’d the tear   drop from my eye. - Here I dined – and being kindly furnished with a good fresh horse, I   stole a rapid ride to visit the celebrated Chalybeate Spring near Wilmington.  Went by a   rough turnpike – They are great annoyances where they occurd, except in Winter – The   house at the Chalybeate is magnificently grand – 3 Stories high & an extensive Portico on   two sides from the roof to the base – There I had again a sense of loneliness to find so   few guests – only 12 boarders set down to dinner! – I was glad I was not to stay, & could   not but imagine the disappointment & unsatisfying portion of those gay ones who had   come from motives of show & fashion & here found so little to fill their desires! – The   very idea of more Servants than guests, & lonely splendid Halls, & their Summer thus   gliding off ineffectively to them, was all “a root of bitterness” - & still more it was so to   the Landlord!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/35f551e4-284b-4b33-9b5a-2e9bbcdb654f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_13","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"19","height":2425,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b88ba300-6e77-4a85-ab05-dd3412521f27/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b88ba300-6e77-4a85-ab05-dd3412521f27","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_13","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"To me the place at its best would not be attractive – It is placed in a bare field – has no   trees or shades – numerous young trees planted are dying, & shade walks will not prevail   for years.  I could publish a sorry picture of this greatly puffed place!     After returning back to Mr Gregg’s, I took my Sulky – went in 2 ½ miles to   Kennetts Square 2 ½ miles Northd – Thence by Birmingham meeting – where was part of   the Brandywine battle* - feel & think of much that related to those times & Lafayette’s   wound there – Much liked the country from Kennetts Sqre a highly situated village, - up   to West Chester, where I arrived at dusk.  The country was finely cultivated. – Farms   indicated wealth & plenty – mostly of Friends – admired the numerous trees by the road   fences & the general venerable & rural beauty of the place once Casper Wisters, near the   Brandywine.  That stream I waded over tho’ deep in preference to using the good Bridge.     I still have observed the general absence of Orchards, & the frequency of excellent Thorn   hedges –     At West Chester, I staid the night & part of next day, (Sunday) with my cousin   Charles Miner Esqre, & his son in law, my friend      Marginal note: * before the Battle a public friend declared they would see blood within   that house - it was so."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b88ba300-6e77-4a85-ab05-dd3412521f27/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_14","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"2","height":2425,"width":1500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7f63d02a-29fe-4cd3-8f82-8be2161a056c/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7f63d02a-29fe-4cd3-8f82-8be2161a056c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_14","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"now we reached those places – What a tremendous energy in these Steam vessels, which   thus so speedily drive us to our destination.  I thought of “poor John Fitch”, the first   projector; - It might have gladdened his spirit to have so seen the success of his schemes   – thus accomplished!     We stopt at Chester & Marcus hook to land & take in passengers as usual.  I never   can see them without reviving all the fond associations of my youth – when I saw those   towns, myself on ship board –, longing to explore the interior of what I then only saw the   front line – How delighted I felt as the Captn would order up the boat to go ashore –   above all to order vessels to bring off milk, - fresh bread, - fruit & vegetables – These are   all delights to ship-bound passengers –     Passed the Highlands of Christiana – still a delightful looking country – not so big   & high as once!  There once dwelt my Parents at their first marriage – all life, health &   youth – now gone or aged; - a change to which I also must follow!     Then beautifully picturesque “Highlands” – so verdant & sloping is the very place   for a grand Marine Hospital, - a final Sailor’s home, where they might rest, under   spacious Porticos & see at all hours the passing scenery, of Ships & Seamen, once   familiar to them in their youth;  & from the River, the Sailors might see their eventual   home in case of disaster.  I could not forbear to wish such a man as F.Girard – so   indebted to Commerce, should be so generous as to endow such a place for a Sailors   Home!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7f63d02a-29fe-4cd3-8f82-8be2161a056c/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_15","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"20","height":2425,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/21c4c638-5c75-4860-b5f4-dc277c45cca3/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/21c4c638-5c75-4860-b5f4-dc277c45cca3","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_15","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Joseph J. Lewis – These live together & form an amiable & intelligent family.  We got   out the “Vellum of Pedigree” & talked over our ancestorial bearings &c with   aristocratical pride.  The pride is natural even to republican professors & theorists, when   they have the pedigree.  We passed much of our time in interchanging minds, & in   sounding & comparing souls – Intellectual commerce, of the sentimental kind, is very   fascinating & agreeable, when frank & simple –     West Chester is an improving town – bearing every where the impress of   prosperity & a refined population – Its leading men are unusually intellectual & genteel.     Its situation is a high level, & has wholy grown up since the Revolution.  It has an   Athenaeum reading room, & a cabinet of natural Science &c –     I went to the friends Meeting & there heard a long, instructive, & well said   Sermon on the text – “Feel after God if haply you may find him – for he is near unto   every one of you” – preached by Saml Battle     After Dinner, I started for home – went by way of Paoli – near which I had 16   Acres of land in Willistown – Very often rode in view of the Columbia railroad & the   West Chester Union one – What an age"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/21c4c638-5c75-4860-b5f4-dc277c45cca3/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_16","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"21","height":2425,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/afe638e5-a569-4822-83c5-a4d9513a38aa/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/afe638e5-a569-4822-83c5-a4d9513a38aa","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_16","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"we live in when {            } subdue the difficulties of former roads, & by facilities of   passage bring distant places nigh, by dispatch of transport! – Much greater things than   these, we may in time look to find.  “Signs & wonders will follow”, to the end, in the   train of Science & investigation –     Finally, I arrived at home safely – 25 miles, after a pleasant ride – found all well   & glad at my return.  The tour was agreeable. – the weather having been fair & gently   fanned with cool breezes –          July 18. 1831 –      I was introduced to Judge Darlington – Dr. Barber – Mr. Dillingham, Mr Haynes &   others as men of Science, and always with the distinction, on my part, of being “the   Annalist”  They intimating that they read me.    (note:  a drawing of a pointing finger intimates the following to be an addendum to the   text above the date of July 18. above)     To Mr. Charles Miner, I was of course a visitor, as a Kinsman, through my   Grandmother Miner – All his deportment is gentlemanly – His manners are mild attentive   & winning; - a smile is perpetually lighted up in his countenance, & his fine white teeth,   help his friendly aspect.  He bears however marks of premature age – is gray too soon –   inclines to stoop from the habit of too often hanging over his desk in his duties as an   editor:  His face too, is marked with abstraction when not drawn out in agreeable   conversation – He is essentially a Social man and a great writer.     Memoranda of my Lands    (note:  here another drawing of a pointing finger leads us to the next page)"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/afe638e5-a569-4822-83c5-a4d9513a38aa/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_17","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"22","height":2425,"width":1550,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1c51c489-32cb-49dd-8498-876adf0b1c10/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1c51c489-32cb-49dd-8498-876adf0b1c10","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1550},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_17","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Memoranda of my Lands –     They were confirmed (at first) in June 1828. – 2 Yrs is 1830.    1st.  Schuylkill Thp – 4 to 5 Acres – of Isaac Freed      on Hill 1 mile from Valley Forge –   Jno Werkizer Inn Keeper on the Hill & road, ¾ of a mile from it, told me he had    cut off the chesnut wood 7 yrs ago at the grant of Jacob Canover of Philada –   supposed since dead – Freed is dead, of Freed & Buttersway near Norristown.    Jacob Vodges & Smith the Marshall were former owners of 400 Acres,    being part of 1600 Acres owned by the Potts’ – They were sold out in lots to suit    purchasers & were bought mostly by Montg Co. people, for chesnut rails.  sold as    high generally as 100 Ds per Acre, some run as high as 200 Ds –    This land has had some ploughing on it.  Is good soil on the north side of    the Hill – Has the privilege of Landing at Valley forge – Has a wide view from it.   it adjoins Colo Humphrys on the West – Saml H. Davis on the South – Jesse   Roberts – on the East – Mw. Ross on the North.  Ross lives on his place & works   at Jno Roger’s Mills – The late Mr. Conard – of Norristown – affected to have   some claim to it - & his heirs perhaps sold it to John Macfarland above    Norristown. - I paid Jno Workizer 3 years back taxes - & made Jno Rogers agent.    2d  Charlestown Thp – 14 to 15 Acres of Joseph Whistler.     This is Spr{    } land – fine chesnut of 20-25 yrs old – had a road cut through it in   1815.  It is called “on the Valley Hill” & is situate just ¼ mile from Tho. H. B.   Jacob’s Inn*, on the Little Conestoga turnpike.  my land, at its SoWest End    joined to Jacobs’.    This land was originally 45 Acres - & has been a law suit case between   John & Joseph Paul of Germantown, Jno. Jacobs (Father of the present Tho H.B.    Jr) & Joseph Whistler.  Henry Wersler was {     } & saw the road cut through.   His brother was a collector.    Marginal note: * It is called Valley hill Inn. & is 1 ½ mile from Steamboat Tavern, Post   Office on Lancaster turnpike 23 miles Stone.    Marginal notes in pencil:        (for 1.) Private Sale 30 to 50         Public  10 to 15         (for 2.) Private Sale  50 to 100     Public   20 to 30      This tract repurchased of me by Tho H Jacobs for 20 Ds"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1c51c489-32cb-49dd-8498-876adf0b1c10/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_18","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"23","height":2425,"width":1488,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0468260a-0e19-4749-b199-eeb6892aba96/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0468260a-0e19-4749-b199-eeb6892aba96","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1488},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_18","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Memoranda of my Lands –     John Wells Assessor – I saw - & left my letter for Ezekl Powell Collector & Jno    Snyder Collector this year.  I left Samuel Holman of Yellow Springs to pay   my taxes –    3d.  West Caln T 4 Acres to Geo. Miller. In pencil:  private 20 to 30          Pub. 5 to 10    4th . . .  Do . . . . 20 Acres to Geo. Templeton  In pencil: priv. 30 to 50            Pub. 10 to 15   I visited Joseph Hughes – P.Mr. & Inn Keeper at Waggontown 38 miles from   Philda – is in West Caln.  He is my agent to pay taxes – he would see Wm Wilson   assessor several years; - & Joseph Martin Collector in 1830. –   He thinks the 4 acres to Geo Miller was lately sold by Sheriff. is about 6 miles   from Hughes – on a Ridge 1 mile North from Moscow near Wm McKins farm.     The Templeton tract he did not know – will learn.  Hughes has been Treasurer   of the County, &c –    5th Sadsbury T 53 Acres of Frances Ruth  In pencil: priv. 30 to 50          pub. 10 to 20  6th .      Do . . . . . 18 Acres of Kiernan Little   In pencil:  Ditto-   for these lands, Joseph Hughes – above named, will serve as agent & pay taxes –   They are but 6 or 7 miles from him.   Richd Everson – Assessor, lives near Truman’s Mills.  Stocker Coats – the   collector, I saw & gave him my written directions; - he is 43 miles from city on   the Turnpike – is a friend.  will direct Everson – could not find my lands on his   tax lists.  Sadsburyville is 41 miles from city.   L. Coates knew K. Little – has moved away to hear Wilmington – J. Coates was   assessor in 1830 –    I saw Thos McClellan (on road) who told me that F Ruth is dead – his   land was in valley – now claimed by Jno Rowland, near Geo Phillips’ Inn on   the New Port turnpike – F Ruth mard Irving, & so got the tract by her.      Marginal notes in pencil:      (for 5.) This No 5 – was repurchased of me – for 20 Ds   (for 6.) This No 6 – was redeemed so said – a nullity."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0468260a-0e19-4749-b199-eeb6892aba96/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_19","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"24","height":2425,"width":1513,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7b7242a0-c2b7-4620-b381-74f5e0c44edc/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7b7242a0-c2b7-4620-b381-74f5e0c44edc","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1513},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_19","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Memoranda of my Lands.    7th Upper Oxford  38 Acres of Archd Ankrim.      Jno Turner former Collector told me that Ankrim had moved to Ohio, & sold out   to Geo McDowell who had pd J Turner 1 yr tax.   The tract is situated on the border of Muddy run, where it enters into Octarora   Creek – just 2 miles from Hayville – Westward. –    Isaac Riley is now Assessor – near Russelville - & Alexdr Andrews Collector – 2    miles off –    8th  West Nottingham – 150 Acres of Davd Montgomery –     Montgomery is dead, & Israel Reynell’s nephew claims – it adjoins Maryland line    - Has a new house & barn –     Mr. Timothy Kirk P Mr. & Innkeeper at Oxford in East Nottingham is my agent    for both the above tracts but 5 to 6 miles off – Sent him an Annals.     9th  Willistown – 16 Acres of Jno C Evans –     In wood land near the Paoli monument –    Mr. Josha Evans, who keeps the Paoli Inn (18 miles) will be my agent & see   assessor & collector.  Evans was in Philada & failed –    At a subsequent period, I only retained of the foregoing lands No 1. seated near Valley   forge & no. 3 & 4 in West Caln – No 1 I afterwards sold –      Marginal notes in pencil:     (for 7.) priv. 30 to 50    pub. 10 to 15    was redeemed in Dec 1828 & is a nullity!   (for 8.) private 50 to 100    Pub. 20 to 30    This trace repurchased of me for 20 Ds   (for 9.) this No 9 has been redeemed."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7b7242a0-c2b7-4620-b381-74f5e0c44edc/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_20","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"25","height":2425,"width":1513,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5110b7de-ed2a-4961-99ed-81b5c2f040d7/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5110b7de-ed2a-4961-99ed-81b5c2f040d7","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1513},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_20","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Memoranda of Relatives – Chester Co –    My Father’s – first wife was Ann Beeson, daughter of ___ Beeson & Alice Martin – all   of Friends Society – dwelt about the Highlands of Christianna.  She died soon.          The brothers & sisters were as follows – to wit:    Thomas Beeson (oldest) about 5 miles back from Wilmington – a Farmer.    Edwd Beeson – Farmer at Highlands    John Beeson – youngest – about 15 miles back from Wilmington at K. Square    neighbourhd.  a Farmer    Mary – the oldest sister, mard Benjm Kellum   Farmer at the Highlands – had no children.  She being soon a widow mard again    _______ & had a daughter    Hannah – married ____ Gregg – a farmer in easy case about 12 miles back from    Wilmington.    Martha – (the youngest) marrd. Richd Dutton a rich farmer, who had Mills at or near   Chester Creek.  They had for Children, John*, Jonathan & Thomas.  John*   Dutton has the Mill on the creek above Chester Town.  Jonathn has married a   Beeson.    The above names, were furnished by my Mother from some family memoranda – She   once visited Jno Beeson - & Hannah Gregg – 55 yrs ago.     When I visited George Gregg in July 1831 at his residence – a farm, 2 ½ miles   Southd of Kennetts Square – he told me the following facts, to wit:     He says his uncle Enoch Gregg was the husband of Hannah Beeson his 1st cousin   – said she died at his adjoining farm about 10 years ago –   The father of George Gregg was Benjamin & owned his present farm – whereon   George was born* -      Marginal note: * Isaac Gregg, brother to George had his farm nearby."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5110b7de-ed2a-4961-99ed-81b5c2f040d7/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_21","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"26","height":2425,"width":1538,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/39452f88-64a7-4b93-916d-37420198c6cc/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/39452f88-64a7-4b93-916d-37420198c6cc","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2425,"width":1538},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_21","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Memoranda of Relatives – contd –    said George Gregg is near 60 years of age – tall – married a Bayley – has had 7 children –   6 sons & one daughter Sarah – single.  Has one Son Benjamin at present in Philada.  –   Has 3 sons under age at home –     The Grand Mother of George was Hannah also died 50 years ago. & her husband   he thinks was Joseph.     At the homestead of Enoch Gregg – ¼ mile off now lives Joseph Gregg his son by   Hannah – he is a bachelor well off – 60 yrs age – cares little for his farm.  His brother   John is dead, & has left 3 children.  His brother Benjm lives at Milltown* & has several   children – Enoch w is marrd & has children & lives near Springers Tavern on the   Wilmington turnpike.     Enoch Gregg w a present lives on a farm 1 ¼ mile East of the Chalybeate Spring,   is well off – (of dubious goodness) –    The family of  John Beeson  }  Wm Beeson, son of John (above) Keeps an Inn & farm at “Corner   Ketch” or Drovers Inn 12 ms off Wilmgton – his sisters are  married, has   several of them –    The family of  Thos Beeson  }  had a son Thomas – who had children – lived near to Shelpot – at the    Highlands – one son named Jonathan – a tall, rich old man – near    same place –      Mr. George Gregg, told me, he knows that the Dutton family were his relatives – had   met some of them at Funerals – G. Gregg’s Farm is a good one – has a lime Kiln on the   place – Appears to live at his ease – Is intelligent & of excellent character – Is a friend in   bias – Says Hannah & Enoch Beeson got out of meeting by marrying as cousins – His   place is very retired – House & Barn of Stone close to each other – only a yard between –   very frank & free to talk - & quite regardless of fashions & modes in house & person &c.      Marginal note: *at Brandywine Mills – is a Miller there & a friend."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/39452f88-64a7-4b93-916d-37420198c6cc/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_22","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"27","height":2425,"width":1538,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b45293a1-8bf4-4f7f-841b-f8022939ff93/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b45293a1-8bf4-4f7f-841b-f8022939ff93","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2425,"width":1538},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_22","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"(note:  this page is written lengthwise, perpendicular to the rest of the journal)     Visit to Salem N J. 1842      On the 4 July 1842, I made my first visit to the ancient Town of Salem N.J. – the place   where my father was born (Wm Watson) on the 20 Augt 1740.  He was the son of   Abraham & Mary – descended of Wm Watson of Sco Irish descent who settled at   Greenwich (14 miles off – a respectable farmer & land holder, who is named as among   the most liberal founders of the Presbyterian church there on or before the year 1700* -   The Deed of the lot bears the date of 1717 – The church after standing upwards of 100   years was taken down in 1835.  I ascertained from Colo R G Johnson – the author of the   history of Salem, - that he knew till 1728, the brothers Wm & Saml Watson, as   respectable farmers near Greenwich – He also knew Isaac Watson who died 30 or 40   years ago – He then had a son Howell Watson, now dead, who was eminent for his   remarkable success in raising fat Cattle – He left two sons – the families were respectable   & belonged to the Presbyterian Church –   My father, was I presume, the Grandson of Wm Watson first above named – his   father Abraham & mother Mary, died when he & his only sister Mary, were small   children – his sister was taken in care of her Uncle Garrick a respectable farmer at Penns   Neck – where she afterwards married Abraham Mills (brother to Mills a Methodist   preacher whom I have seen & known), who while in the Jersey line in the Revolution,   died a prisoner to the British of the Camp fever at Philada & lies among the many   remains in Washington Square.  He was taken at the battle of Germantown – His widow   left & only son Watson Homans – settled at Timber Creek & a farmer, by her 2d husband   Andrew Homans of Swedish descent – My father was taken in charge of Othnial   Tomlinson, a respectable quaker – The children had some property, about which however   I know nothing – save that my father used to say, it was not fairly given to his use – He   soon went out of the neighbourhood & then into the War of the Revolution, & never saw   more of Salem or his interests or family – he was shipwrecked at Sea & lost in Jany 1804   – and this was my first attempt to enquire about his family connections in or about   Greenwich or Salem –     * The father of Wm Watson first above named was Thos Watson the same who took up   land at Greenwich in 1685 – a real Primere of the country – vide my certifate of order of   Survey of 1685.             Turn"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b45293a1-8bf4-4f7f-841b-f8022939ff93/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_23","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"28","height":2425,"width":1363,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1d588509-859b-4af1-9188-d69b1ab88e58/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1d588509-859b-4af1-9188-d69b1ab88e58","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2425,"width":1363},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_23","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"(note:  this page is written lengthwise, perpendicular to the rest of the journal)    I felt much interested & solemn in visiting Salem, because of its associations with my   father & his family – I observed all the turns & windings of the River & the views of the   Country from it, & and how I thought once went my father, when youthful & buoyant &   flushed with health & spirits – He was one of nature’s noble men – full of noble   principles – and in all his actions “more sinned against than sinning.”  He was withall a   fine, large, well looking man –    In Salem, I readily traced out the most ancient houses – I knowing those of brick   as such by their original structure being of 1 ½ stories high with extreme high roofs – the   roofs double hipped, & the brick work interspersed with regular intermixture of glazed   bricks, after the ancient manner of Philad – Such houses were now generally altered &   raised upon in the upper story, so as to make of them two stories, and the gable ends   showing the line of the former terminations of double hips & now flattened down  to   single hips –  (Here is a pencil sketch of a house with hipped roof.)   Salem is now healthy – the meadows being drained.  The Streets are wide & have   fine shade trees in abundance, & the houses are neat & handsome – I am told that there is   there a peculiar regard to indoor neatness & comfort – especially in kitchens – and table   array.  I noticed there a very remarkably large & spreading oak tree of the original forest   race in the middle of the grave ground opposite to the Friends new meeting house –   Thinking over the past, & the long line of departed – first settlers once there, now no   more.  I felt as if walking over the remains of the dead – It was a solemn, thoughtful 4   July to me!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1d588509-859b-4af1-9188-d69b1ab88e58/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_24","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"29","height":2425,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3b41567c-8528-4563-bb28-b20ba3c923f9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3b41567c-8528-4563-bb28-b20ba3c923f9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2425,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_24","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Reminiscence of New York Harbour –  “The harvest of the River is her revenue; & she is a mart of nations – whose merchts &    traffickers are as princes. – These have replenished her isle” -    Isaiah on Tyne.    I can conceive of nothing more lovely, than the entry of New York Harbour, coming in   by the Narrows from the Sea; such as I once witnessed it one early & radiant summer   morn – The Sun beams lighted up & silvered every object in the landscape, with splendid   effulgence – the liquid waves seemed tippd & sparkling with silver & golden light, & at   distance, the green isles, which rested before the City, on the bosom of the tranquil   waters, seemed like guardian sentinels to the beautiful City – indeed, castellated &   fortified as they are, they evince at once the treasures of wealth, & the thousands of   animated beings which they thus protect, & can defend.   But ere I speak more specially of the Harbour, let me turn back a moment to   record the scenes, & the emotions, which the contemplation of the Ocean & the ocean   shore just left behind generated – It is told with feeling poetry by G D Prentice – “Oh, ‘tis   sweet to gaze on Ocean in his hour of peace”! –     “ ‘Tis sweet – ‘tis sweet to gaze upon the deep         And muse upon its mysteries!- - - -         See there it rolls! – Age after age has swept   Down, - down the eternal cataract of time –   Men after Men, on earth’s cold bosom slept –   Still there it rolls, unfading & sublime!   Oh it were joy to wander wild & free   Where southern billows in the sunlight flash,   or night sits brooding o’er the northern sea,   And all is still, save the o’er whelming dash   Of that dark world of waters; - there to view   The meteor hanging from its cloud on high,   or see the northern fires, with blood-red hue,   Shake their wild tresses o’er the startled sky!           Ocean"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3b41567c-8528-4563-bb28-b20ba3c923f9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_25","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"3","height":2425,"width":1500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e74d6cdc-b6ae-417a-a6f8-2dfaef35bb0c/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e74d6cdc-b6ae-417a-a6f8-2dfaef35bb0c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2425,"width":1500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_25","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"In contemplating the numerous persons & faces which now crowd these fashionable   conveyances, the mind cannot forbear to run out in excursive thoughts.  The vast   difference between present & former celerities of change of place – We now no longer   regard tides & head winds; but onward “walk the water like a thing of life”  Behold in 3   hours – say at 10, O’clock, we are at Wilmingtn.  While crowded among so many persons   of both sexes, I could, but consider how greatly Philada & Philada things had changed in   a course of years – once I could have known, by sight, almost all faces I could meet; but   among all these how very few could I name!  A generation had risen up that knew not me   or my Fathers – Even among themselves, but few seemed acquainted.  A selfish reserve   pervaded all; and a sense of melancholy & loneliness stole upon the mind to consider   yourself so isolated in a crowd – This is one of the positive evils of our cherished   overgrown population – It shows that we have already passed the maximum point of our   happiness – We have encouraged emigration & settlement ‘till we are no longer a Family   of Brotherly love!     As we went up the Christianna Ck I thought of the antient Swedes who first   explored it – Of their little primitive community – Of their fostering care under Queen   Christiana – Of their Missionaires &c.  At the rock on the north side rising out of the   Water at the shore I saw where they at first erected their Fort – ‘Twas on a small point of"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e74d6cdc-b6ae-417a-a6f8-2dfaef35bb0c/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_26","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"30","height":2425,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6214cdbe-213b-42c2-85b0-300a50083f6c/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6214cdbe-213b-42c2-85b0-300a50083f6c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2425,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_26","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Ocean farewell! – Upon thy mighty shore,   I loved in childhood’s fairy hours to dwell!   But I am wasting, life will soon be o’er,   And I shall cease to gaze on thee – farewell!   Thou still wilt glow as fair as now – the sky   Still arch as proudly o’er thee – Evening steal   Along thy bosom with as soft a dye:   All be as now – but I shall cease to feel.”     But to leave the Ocean scene, & to return to the subject of the beautiful city of New   York, & its captivating surrounding scenery, - ourselves in its capacious bay, nearing,   under gentle sail, the Battery &c - -  then we see, on the right, the blue heights of   Gowanus, topt with dun coloured morning mist, and along its base we see the light   coasting vessels with its raking masts & trim spars, stealing like an apparition, along the   silent shore; - Before us, stands on proudly, the lordly Indiaman, her piles of canvass   towering above the white fortresses which garnish the port – bursting forth her volumes   of fire & smoke from her iron battery – waking up the still slumbering citizens, & making   the shores & the welkin resound with the reverberating roar.  For on the left, where opens   the noble Hudson we see the grey heights of Wehawken, which frown over the many   white sheeted River vessels, which glide lazily beneath its margin shade – Whilst, in   almost every direction about us, we see the more animated objects, the Steam boats, filled   with numerous passengers, breasting the wave, to & from various points of passage &   intercourse.  We see too, the jocund fishermen just putting off on their days venture, &   the gay pleasure barge set onward by its chattering oarsmen. – In a word, in such a   Panoramic picture, we have every thing to charm the eye & feast the imagination."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6214cdbe-213b-42c2-85b0-300a50083f6c/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_27","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"31","height":2363,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a99da416-0dd1-42ef-bfaa-77cbea3681b5/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a99da416-0dd1-42ef-bfaa-77cbea3681b5","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2363,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_27","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Trip to Poetquessinc Creek  & the Bake House –  in Byberry – 1832"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a99da416-0dd1-42ef-bfaa-77cbea3681b5/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_28","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"32","height":2363,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3ae236dc-cc94-4063-a822-b1dc99a66f6d/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3ae236dc-cc94-4063-a822-b1dc99a66f6d","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2363,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_28","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Trip to Poetquessink     I went to this place on the 4 July 1832 in company with my friend Doct J H Gibbon, &   was entertained at the Bake House, near there, by it hospitable owner G W Morgan Esqre     This site is interesting as having been the spot once chosen as the location of   Philada, so the tradition has run; & so Saml Preston the aged Bucks Co Surveyor, wrote   to me, saying he had once seen the Platform of it, in the Papers of Lukens the Surveyor   Genl – It is a place so like present Philada once was, as to deserve some special notice –   It is a high bluff bank along the Delaware, all faced with numerous forest trees & the top   table land along the margin is all crowded with a long grove of tall pitch pines – this   causing it to deserve the name of Cohoquinoque, the proper indian name of Philada.  My   feelings & meditations at such a place, gave me a lively image of what primitive Philada   must have been – I thought of the vessels before the towne; of the landings of the people;   - of their feelings on gaining the summit of such a table land – I thought too, of those who   must have once"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3ae236dc-cc94-4063-a822-b1dc99a66f6d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_29","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"33","height":2363,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9a35dc2d-7434-47e1-98c9-e3cd782be1c6/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9a35dc2d-7434-47e1-98c9-e3cd782be1c6","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2363,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_29","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"visited this place, & of the comparisons between the two places, which at length   determined the final choice.  The water before this place, near the shore is deep & the   Channel has a depth of 40 feet.  The Poetquessink Creek in its Northern edge; presented   to my eye, that harbour mouth which was designed as a natural harbour (like Duck   Creek) for Winter shelter from the Ice – In the time of the Revolutionary War, several of   our Mercht vessels lay along this front bank fastened close up to the sides of the trees.    The Bake House, so called, had been originally made on a large scale, to prepare ships &   pilots bread for exportation, & when the War same, it was pressed into Public service for   baking the army supplies – It is now greatly altered as a Mansion house; & from its   ancient trees & deep embowering shades, forms an elegant Country seat.  Much family   company was there, celebrating the 4 July; & at Evening they sent up from the wharf,   fronting the house, two dozen of sky rockets in fine style.  During the day, they sent up   several small baloons of gay construction.  The same night, I passed at the house of Dr   Gibbon – near to Busseltown – He is a social & thinking man, who expatiates freely on   every topic."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9a35dc2d-7434-47e1-98c9-e3cd782be1c6/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_30","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"34","height":2363,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2bb3e8c9-0a69-49ac-92c0-80b68b2da895/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2bb3e8c9-0a69-49ac-92c0-80b68b2da895","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2363,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_30","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"In making this excursion, I had other matters of interest & observation – I started in my   ride at 4. O, Cl in the morning, when the air was cool & grateful, & the trees were vocal   with gay Songsters.  In all my ride, I saw no preparation to celebrate this natal day of our   nation; - yet it seems a day of exemption from labour, & often I saw the husbandman   leaning his breast against his field fence & contemplating with complacency, the rich   promise in the coming harvest - - I thought they were happy as members of a free   Country, altho’ they might not celebrate their sense of that – After breakfasting with Dr   Gibbon, we went in compy to visit Mrs Elizabeth Webster, near Friends Meeting in   Byberry – The point of interest in her character, is, that she had been a captive among the   Indians, taken together with her family of 12 persons, by 11 Indians from this side of   Maunch Chunk in the Lehigh in the year 1778/80* when she was but 12 years of age –   The interest in her case, to me, was, that I should now be able to see a person of but 65   years of age, who could 50 years ago, having been captured by Indians within a present   days ride of Philada – and    Marginal note: * I since see the printed acct reads 1780 is the true time."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2bb3e8c9-0a69-49ac-92c0-80b68b2da895/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_31","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"35","height":2413,"width":1500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/26dd19d8-4139-44b2-a5bc-9ab65719f131/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/26dd19d8-4139-44b2-a5bc-9ab65719f131","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2413,"width":1500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_31","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"from a neighborhood now so thickly populated & improved! – How it strikes the mind to   contemplate the rapid change from wild to civilized!  Her family were Quakers – were   settled on a mill stream of the Mahoning Creek, at the present Lehighton.  The Indians   who took them were of different tribes from Niagara; & came, they said, to revenge   Sullivans chastisement of them – They came running to the place at early morning – tied   all the males with bark bands – their elbows, bound back, with “Hoppiss” which also   passed before their necks – They set fire to all the Mills & houses & barns – made all   walk but the Mother, who was allowed to ride her own horse – They marched in 26 days   500 miles to Niagara – This girl & her sister of 17, were both soon adopted by head men,   & were kindly treated – Her brother, Jesse Gilbert, has printed in 1784 an account of the   matter & of their liberation & return, which causes me to say no more here.  She was   lively & animated in conversation & healthfull.       We dined at James Thorntons near Byberry Meeting – a kind – genteel family. -  Mr. T.   is the step Son of that Doct Yarnall described in Goaydin’s memoirs as of such “infinite   jest & humour”, among the Officers of the Revolutionary Army – as very brave & daring   & finally a Quaker preacher – a sect whom he before mocked."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/26dd19d8-4139-44b2-a5bc-9ab65719f131/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_32","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"36","height":2438,"width":1538,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2af2f521-2133-4f64-b0c6-1e0ca36ad13e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2af2f521-2133-4f64-b0c6-1e0ca36ad13e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2438,"width":1538},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_32","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"We went thence to see the Homestead of the Rush family – the Natale Solum of   the celebrated Doct Rush; and made interesting to sensitive & imaginative minds, by the   charming letter of Dr. Rush to Jno Adams describing his emotions at revisiting the Home   of his forefathers the very year of his death, 1812.  We endeavd to go over the objects of   family interest, described in his letter; & of the “Cedar pillar”, which he so warmly   embraced, we brought off a section as a memento; = We also got some bullets picked up   from the ground where the Guns of “the Gunsmith” were proved. – I advised the present   owner Jess. Parry – a friend, to paste Rush’s letter to his parchment Deed, so that the   local history & associations might descend with the property to posterity – The premises   seem, by Deed, to have been part of 1000 Acres patented to Jno Hart the 21 of 10 M 1681   by Wm Penn -, which he sells to James Rush, “blacksmith”,* on “Poetquesink”,   adjoining land of Jno Rush, Grand son of the said James Rush, for the sum of 10 £ – This   one Deed read.  Another Deed reads, that on 9 Feb 1748, - John Rush – of Philada,   “blacksmith” & Susanna his wife, sell to Jno Hall 72 Acres for 400 £ adjoining to Joseph   Walton – [This is the home stead]    Marginal note: * In early days – especially in the Country – useful mechanic arts, were   chosen, as best answering the wants of a new Country & therefore forming the best   citizens – Penn’s frame of Laws – declared that “all children of 12 yrs of age, should be   taught some useful trade” – In the case of Rush – he turned his knowledge of   Gunmaking, to the general Smithing, so as to be more generally useful & pursuing both   avocations at the same time & place."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2af2f521-2133-4f64-b0c6-1e0ca36ad13e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_33","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"37","height":2438,"width":1538,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0ff06ee7-0443-4880-8e54-f499a1022dd6/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0ff06ee7-0443-4880-8e54-f499a1022dd6","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2438,"width":1538},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_33","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"I have some vague idea, that Doct Rush’s mother was Susanna, & that she became a   Morris, by 2d marriage, & lived afterwards where Doct J. H. Gibbon now dwells near   Busseltown – Mr. Rush while at the Homestead, had great ingenuity & enterprise in the   booring of Gun barrels; to this purpose he had a water power & a dam – the Dam & Mill   is gone, but I saw the remains of the Race, near the woods now grown up with trees. –   Standing in front of the house – by the Poetquesink Creek (which still has fish) I lookd up   to the ascendg gentle hill on which the house stands & made the present sketch of the   Homestead – to wit:    (Note:  here follows a pen and ink drawing of some detail.)  The end of the house near the Locust trees is in place of what was originally the Log-  kitchen.  The house is stone.  The Piazza, was lately renewed.  Front of the house is a   verdant meadow gently sloping down to the narrow Poetquesink Creek – The house is 40   feet front by 25 feet deep.  Jesse Parry is a friend – his Father before him bought the place   of Rush – The Graveground of the Family is in sight on the Hill near to Ingraham’s new   house.  It was a Friends ground – the place of their first meeting Ho.    Marginal note in pencil: Verree’s mills on Pennpack has old Neiman deed."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0ff06ee7-0443-4880-8e54-f499a1022dd6/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_34","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"38","height":2438,"width":1513,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a16ea106-5015-43f0-847e-d01d8e16a913/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a16ea106-5015-43f0-847e-d01d8e16a913","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2438,"width":1513},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_34","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"We next went to Andalusia, the neighbourhood of the infamous Mrs. Chapman – alias   Mina.  Her house though larger & good, looked desolate & neglected – a suitable   exhibition of the wretched woman within.  I felt that I pitied her as the victim of two   master passions ambition & lust.  These set in action * by her profligate Paramour, Mina,   caused the murder of her gentle husband, the execution of Mina, & the solitude & bitter   reflections of herself – Her heart was passionately devoted to the show & glare of pomp   & equipage; - these Mina promised to their utmost; & her unchaste animal feelings, pined   for sensuality.  Dearly she paid for indulgence – Altho’ she has escaped the Gallows – for   which I am pleased for her childrens sake – (they are amiable ones) yet she cannot escape   the lashings of a sensitive & instructed mind.  I felt a wish to see & scrutinize the face &   mental workings of such a woman.  I annex a letter written after the death of her husband   & the execution of her lover – It shows a mind, and expresses feelings, which manifests   in how many points she could go with the common sensibility of her Sex, even while she   could be capable of going so far astray, in cases wherein her misconceptions of interest &   indulgence were concerned.  She wrote it to a neighbour – a good young woman, who felt   regrets for her strange perversions & practices.  I took the note as a curiosity & here   annex it.     After this, I visited Chapmans grave.  I thought if anything could cause a Ghost to   arise, this Grave ground should have its nightly visitant; & still more I thought such a   house as Mrs Chapman’s should be haunted – What energy of character she must have to   be able to rest in such a house! – The time, was formerly, when all the neighbourhood   would have been stirred with fear & superstition! –     Next day I visited Walkers – patent farm, near Busseltown – on it is an enclosed   Grave ground in which is interred Holmes, the first Surveyor Genl – no stone to him –    Marginal note: * until these were excited – she passed in society as good enough, &   raising a reputable family, how strange!  “So far in Sin, she waded in, that to go back,   were hard as to go o’er”!  - She chose the latter."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a16ea106-5015-43f0-847e-d01d8e16a913/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_35","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"39","height":1913,"width":1250,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a7a76d7d-8a4f-4997-a934-421782ef47a7/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a7a76d7d-8a4f-4997-a934-421782ef47a7","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":1913,"width":1250},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_35","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"(Note:  here is pasted in the letter referred to on the previous page.)    June 24th 1832.      Excuse me, my ever kind and obliging neighbour and friend, when I again intrude upon   your goodness, by again troubling you to give me a few more of your cabbage plants if   you have them to bestow; as I have been so unfortunate as to have almost all of mine   eaten by my cow, after they were grown to a fine size; but through your goodness, the   same patch is now almost filled again with plants, which with constant watering, appear   very flourishing, and if you can send me 20 or 30 more plants my ground will again be   filled with plants; but I regret giving you so much trouble in taking them up for me, as the   ground is now so exceedingly dry it is very difficult to transplant, and I believe few   would take the pains of taking them up with so much care as you did the last ones which   you sent, with so much earth adhering to the roots as to"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a7a76d7d-8a4f-4997-a934-421782ef47a7/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_36","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"4","height":2425,"width":1500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6a5667bb-9038-4244-97da-0813b1d1304f/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6a5667bb-9038-4244-97da-0813b1d1304f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2425,"width":1500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_36","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"rising ground jutting out from the surrounding low meadow lands.   Near to it, in the rear,   is a fine remains of Swedish days, - the ancient Church, much beautified by venerable   Trees in its grave ground enclosure. – The Fort is all gone down to the dust; & even the   Church, though in fine preservation, is now difused & ungraciously cast into neglect – It   should not be so – The descendants of the bodies which repose there, should keep it up   (at least for a summer church) for the sake of its associations & its connection with their   ancestors.  From the River side it looks thus to wit:    (Note:  here follow two drawings, one titled “Rocks”, the other is of the abovementioned   church.)    On the view from the River it presents a Great corridor on the water side – on the   opposite front it presents two large corridors.     Near Where the Fort stood, we had a few years ago a Battery of 12 Guns erected,   to keep off British invasion.  The whole is now in a corn field - & next adjoining to the   Church is now a wheat field –     After landing at Wilmington, & looking at the neat & long Bridge, close by &   across the Christiana, I went out to the above mentioned church – You approach it by   Broad Street – a long St without houses having Thorn Hedges along the fields on either   side.  The Steeple to the church I found was made of brick, built in 1802, but marked as   showing the age of the Church (called Trinity) 1698. – I went into the Church – large old   fashioned Pews – a gallery & choir – The Pulpit sat on a square block of stone work.  I   sat down & meditated on the Race so wholy gone down to the dust!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6a5667bb-9038-4244-97da-0813b1d1304f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_37","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"40","height":1913,"width":1275,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5dcae4d5-d25c-4c9d-ace4-edb202d4018f/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5dcae4d5-d25c-4c9d-ace4-edb202d4018f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":1913,"width":1275},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_37","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"preserve the plants from wilting.  While I acknowledge your goodness in sending me   various kinds of seeds &c. my heart glows with gratitude to you for the many kindnesses   received at your hands when in affluent circumstances; but now alas! how strangely   altered is my condition! and while tears of the deepest heart-felt grief flow from my eyes,   the following lines pass through my mind.   “How much does one well natured deed   “Exhilerate the mind,   “Self love should teach each human heart   “To study to be kind;     “My Remembrance of a little act,   “Will ever pleasing look,   “Which, though ‘twas tender and humane,   “Small cost and labour took.”    With much respect for you and your kind mother, I subscribe myself your deeply   afflicted and constantly persecuted friend and neighbour.          Lucretia Chapman.    Miss Susan K."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5dcae4d5-d25c-4c9d-ace4-edb202d4018f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_38","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"41","height":2438,"width":1425,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a25264f6-0b45-4f59-b644-151b1cb3cc78/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a25264f6-0b45-4f59-b644-151b1cb3cc78","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2438,"width":1425},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_38","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Trip to Franconia Townsp.      In May 1833, I made an excursion of three days to this township – in Montg Co – 30   miles from Philada – in compy with my Father in law, Mr Crowell, & my son Barron –   Mr. C. had some business to transact, & I had some tastes to gratify by seeing the state of   Society, among so thorough a German a populatn – It may hereafter sound strange to be   informed, that as late as the year 1833, such a township so fully peopled & so thoroughly   cultivated, should be wholly German save two families of the name of Wilson!—It   sounds strange too, to be told the fact, that the family which I visited – namely Abram   Detweilers on Indian creek (3 miles up it) should be the proper descendents of the   original settler there of the name of Henry Funk.  That he only settled there in 1719 – by   purchase of 53 Acres, for 10 £ only, bought of Jno Steel, to whom the tract of 1000 Acres   had been first surveyed & patented the year before (1718) by Wm Penns’ commissioners!   – The same Jno Steel ten years afterwards (in 1729) procured a patent for 1300 Acres   adjoining lands in Salford; & as late as 1763, another adjoining tract, was Patented by   Penns’ Sons Thos & Richard!  Lands so beautiful & highly cultivatred as they now are,   but so lately redeemed from their state of nature, so near to Philada - seems to a present   beholder very strange!  When first settled, several small remains of Indians, still lingered   about these regions, & the name of Indian Crk indicated a connection with the native   tribes.  Their burial place was shown to me near to Detweilers – When Funk settled there,   he was six miles northward of any neighbour, - & altho’ his place is more a mill seat, he   then had no mill nearer than the present"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a25264f6-0b45-4f59-b644-151b1cb3cc78/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_39","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"42","height":2375,"width":1425,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/68f98475-4bf8-49bd-ab5f-df3ec03126b0/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/68f98475-4bf8-49bd-ab5f-df3ec03126b0","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2375,"width":1425},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_39","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Mather’s mill at flourtown, to which he used to go with his single bag of grain on   horseback!  In going to this place, we went by the “Allentown” road – a name & rout   once preeminent as a main thoroughfare, because it lead originally to the advance frontier   post on the north, as terminating at “Fort Allen” on the Lehigh – a Military post as late as   1765 & later – In returning we came home by the North Wales road, another early main   road, through the lands first settled by the Welsh, - most of whom were Quakers &   Baptists.  As I regarded the present happy farmers by the roadside, I could not forbear to   feel glad that their forefathers, had so well provided for them.     The Inhabitants of Franconia, were generally Mnenonists & Tunkards – The   Latter had a neat little meeting house, & a well dressed Congregation, situate by the   Indian creek where it crosses the No Wales Road – The Houses, Barns & travelling   equipages of all those peoples, indicate prosperity & comfort – All far different from   what they could have every enjoyed in Germany –     While in this neighbourhood, I made an excursion to Sumney Town – 33 miles   from City, a German settlement of but few houses, situate at the junction of two creeks –   branches of the Perkioming – It is pretty much surrounded by high & rocky & woody   hills, which still afford some retreats for Foxes –     It gave me an additional interest to find a Gentlm of 84 Yrs of such health &   spirits to have been my companion, & to have had his feelings still alive to the charms of   country scenery & improvements - It was pleasing by way of contrast to mark the high   vigour & energy of life in my youthful boy, just entering upon his career of life & hope &   joy ahead."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/68f98475-4bf8-49bd-ab5f-df3ec03126b0/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_40","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"5","height":2425,"width":1538,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4a721e4b-4776-4399-994d-81a86d048ac4/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4a721e4b-4776-4399-994d-81a86d048ac4","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2425,"width":1538},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_40","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"(Note:  this page is written on sideways and is prefaced by the note following.)    I missed this page by accident & therefore supply some memoranda out of place –     As I went up Walnut St from the River, saw there the old residence of the late   Colo Allen McLane – my kind & generous friend, who used so often to remember me in   the Grape Season & send me a basket of his excellent White Grapes – This brick house   he informed me was the first built house in the proper town of Wilmington, when dwelt   in by Willing the proper founder of the town.  I take it, that while the Swedes dwelt about   here their houses were nearer to the Fort & Churches – 1/3d of a mile distant.  Willing   had his Store in another traverse street, near it, by the market.       Along the same Walnut St I saw the Methodist Church opened & the Revd E.   Cooper preaching & so I went in, - & besides the Sermon was glad of a shelter from the   heat & rain, both of which came on for an hour & more excessively.     I dined at Porter’s Indian Queen Inn.  Went out with Barron to the Brandywine   Mills – very picturesque & romantic scenery there – numerous great massive mercht   mills, with front Walls rising up out of the creek.  Sloops to bear off the flour laying in   the stream.  Quite a village of houses near – the Surging – tumbling, & wild state of the   Waters among the rocks upstream was very interesting – Here I remember my Father had   passed many youthful days."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4a721e4b-4776-4399-994d-81a86d048ac4/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_41","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"6","height":2420,"width":1488,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e5ace106-5b44-4e7a-8b60-528024fbfb81/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e5ace106-5b44-4e7a-8b60-528024fbfb81","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2420,"width":1488},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_41","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"There they had worshiped while surrounded by Indians – The country all new – all wild –   none ever dreaming of such a state, & such a moralizer as the present!  The Ayles are   paved with bricks & near the Alter is a large marble slab with a long inscription in Poetry   setting forth, its occupant, “The Revd Peter Transberg Missng from Sweden – 14 years at   Raccoon & Penn’s Neck Churches died in 1748 aged 52 years” – I noticed that a great   many visiters had cut their names about the word work of the Corridor –      In the grave yard the Stones were numerous & some very expensive Tombs were   among them – The names generally were modern & familiar – I was told the Swedes   generally had no inscriptions - & that now the grounds were so full of bones, that dig   where you would they were found.  I observed no Soap-stones (a mark of primitive days,   when marble among us was unknown,) but I found one old Stone of Swedish character   short & thick thus: (Note:  here is a small drawing of the stone.)  On its front it was   inscribed wholy in Roman capitals, without any marked division of words thus:   “Rom. 678 – He that is dead is freed from sin;  Now if we be dead with Christ we shall also live with Him”.    On the opposite side “Here lieth Wm Vandevere born 1656 – died 17-06.”*     As I returned back to the town, I recognized the street next south of Walnut,   nearst the Creek, where I had once been very sick of Yellow fever in 1793 in the family   of one Captn Phillips –     Wilmington beautifully placed upon rising ground, showing a fine display from   the River Delaware.     Marginal notation: * (Wm Vandevere) is now an of the Beesons– named Peter Vandevere  (Some words are crossed out, making this difficult to read.)"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e5ace106-5b44-4e7a-8b60-528024fbfb81/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_42","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"7","height":2420,"width":1393,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/05d4ffd5-0262-4b43-aff4-f96680886b5d/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/05d4ffd5-0262-4b43-aff4-f96680886b5d","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2420,"width":1393},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_42","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"At 4’ O’Clock in afternoon I set out to return to Chester homeward in the Emerald –   Captn Wheldon.  But when we reached there, I concluded to go on to Philada & to pass   the next day (the day of Indepda) at Burlington & Mt Holly.  This, much pleased my Son;   - for the truth is, to young & old, the chief delight of the Steam boats consists in the rapid   change of places, - whereby the mind seems in two days to embrace the travel& the time   of a week. – As to the Steam vessel itself, there is not much novelty – after the first trip, -  - there seems a tame sameness – having only the same great throng of cold, distant,   listless, passengers – all reserved – all self absorbed, & selfish –     In the very nature of things you must sometimes remember the horrors of a   terrible Scald – a Boiler bursted, - & souls & bodies seperated!  Involuntarily we breathe   a prayer – “Good Lord deliver us!  Keep us from violent & sudden death”!     As we come home by Fort Mifflin & Red Bank, a Gentlm onboard told of a   Gentlm who has the identical gold watch which was once that of Count Donop – He lived   perhaps in the City.     Arrived back to Philada at 7, O,Clock in good time for Tea – visited Commodore   Barron & Lady No 200 Spruce St – Certainly an amiable, frank & social Gentlm.  Talked   of our part of the Barron family.  I can never see him without thinking of his fatal Duel   with Decatur, - & yet I wholy exculpate him, because the other so malignantly forced it   upon him.  Passed the night at our friend Joseph Wood’s.             Finis"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/05d4ffd5-0262-4b43-aff4-f96680886b5d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_43","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"8","height":2425,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d95c3637-0250-4a2c-805b-bf969396b160/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d95c3637-0250-4a2c-805b-bf969396b160","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2425,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_43","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Trip to Burlington & Mt Holly –  4 July 1831.       On Monday 4 July left Philada at 6, O’Clock A.M. in the Steam boat Trenton for   Burlington.  A very full charge of Passengers – I had again occasion to observe how few   you know in such a promiscuous crowd – still creating sensations of loneliness. – You   care for none - & none possibly care for you.  The most striking thing was the numerous   grotesque dresses of the Ladies – with sleeves big as waists, & Skirts short & rotund –   pacing with a mincing hip-wriggle. –     Saw numerous parties of both sexes in numerous small craft on the River   “Keeping 4 July” – We run by them as so many islets; but tho’ thus cast behind us, they   were full of rude mirth & gaiety, shouting & singing with one accord – a lively contrast   to our sullen pride. – In one & ¾ hours we came along side Burlington, which still retains   its peaceful, graceful “Green bank”; & long may the absence of business-stir, leave them   in the quiet occupancy of so delightful a rural beauty & shade – There still stands in its   lofty & stout majesty the biggest Button wood Tree, now remembered, probably girdling   28 feet to 30 ft in circumference. – There I pointed out to my Son near the spot where I   dwelt a boy, young as himself in 1793 – an Exile by reason of the Yellow fever, but in   more of unrestrained play, amusement & gladness, than I had ever elsewhere or since   experienced.     We took the Mount holly stage soon after landing & reachd there a little after 9,   O’Clock, through a fair specimen of Jersey land & settlement, & by a road much famd."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d95c3637-0250-4a2c-805b-bf969396b160/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_44","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"9","height":2425,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/781d5c81-0485-4e39-b266-7500ebbfaaec/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/781d5c81-0485-4e39-b266-7500ebbfaaec","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2425,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/095b64a8-6721-4aac-9ab1-4a37a137aba4/canvas/_44","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"familiarized to me, by the frequent goings & returnings of my youthful days – the days of   1798, - the Summer of which I was a boarder in Mount Holly.  This Mount Holly is a   pleasant place, irrigated by several passages of Water through the Town; & made a very   pleasing residence by the frank & simple manners & hospitality of the People.   It has   undergone many improvements of late years – Its fine water powers tend to give it trade   & riches – In going the rounds to seek out former acquaintances, what changes of   families & places!  The young & beautiful, especially among the females, had become   faded & motherly, & some of their daughters were fast growing up into their former   place, - But the houses & streets &c seemed to have renewed their age by improvements,   & the glare of paint & ornament &c.     Time affects great changes in minds as well as things; for now I found my former   affections had cooled, & things & places that here once warmed the heart & Stirred the   affections, had subsided. – Once, in the ardour of youth, I thought this town, its   neighborhood, & friendly & agreeable population, the pleasantest spot on Earth! – There   I thought, surely it will be my pleasure, after going abroad to gather money, to go back &   spend it in hospitality & Social pleasures – Now, home-cares & other ties, have bound   me to another sail & to other views – Truly “it is not in man that walketh to direct his   steps” – wholly to his own purposes.     I returned to Burlington – after spending the most of my time with Eliza Cox, -   my long fast friend –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/781d5c81-0485-4e39-b266-7500ebbfaaec/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e22f939c-1248-4190-b029-bb4dc6cffd70/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}