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After
and went on towards blbany
got there about 11: I
to rcKinny
Rain
we got over t
when the Rain abated I went to
See Some Friends, but
my particular Friends were
gone out of the City, went to
our
good friend
Christiana
anything about them, he
me to
was born the Day
before which was the Second Day
of the Month, and I
them Concerning their
of the Nature of
and their Duty to bring up
their Children in the Fear of god
and
tum
tom
me, and finally I
and
I
of
of the ever
was kindly
was in the City
r
Hollenbeck
to
d Ferry
not get over, and
Mr F
very
went
very early in morning and
went up to the Northward
s&slong;e
at this Place and we wen
So far as to r
der about backwards
and
forwards all Day, — got over
r
Smith
got up
very early in the morning
and
we rlaces by
the way, and we found
no
got to
r
Several knew me, and they
us
it kindly,— and here found out
the People had Concluded to
have
keep Sabbath with them, good
old r
of this Place, and he was Sent
for he Came Direc
and Concluded further to be
with
them on the Sabbath, and two
went on but the Bridges were
So gone and
Flood, that we
long by
right off from
r
found him in the
evening, and was kindly d
went to another
Family to Lodge
one r
with me, — — —
Soon after
Call in at rcCarty
the offer us Dinner and we
we
was
by r
We
and left my r
ccarty
about 2: in ther
and went to the place where I hear
Dina
at home
after a while
Came
go to where
bout 7 miles further, and we
got to
the Place
the evening, and not well but
better than She had been
for She
has been very Sick
the
be to the great god for his mercy
to me in the
me and
Family Lodged here —
got up very
early and
to preach in r
got to
Sent the mare back by
waucus
with me; got over Soon and I
on
at the
and went on foot, and two or three
Places. and all in Vain, a
wagon
Came by me
dt word
forward to have
and I went into a
man of the
ties, and he
I was going to hear the Strange
hear him, and then told him,
the People Could not See
that
Strange Creature
there, and then he
whether it was I that they expe
—I told him Yes,—and he was
Several People going by, he
Called to them and
told them I
was in the
help, and one of the men got
down and
I took it, and went on, got
there at half
after 11, and there
was a prodigious large
gathon
gation
was Seen in the Place, and I
went in, gave them a Short
in the
the g People attended with grea
and Solemn attention and with
many Tears, — as Soon as the
meeting was done, a gentleman
took me in his wagon, and
ed
edr
man d
ne&slong;s
ness
lighting we went to meeting
in a Small Log meeting
and it was
Hive, and
Criminals at the Bar, I
they felt the power of the word
at
was at r Powers
Powers
to ride to r
got there near 12
at a
and r
we went to another
there we took Dinner — and Soon
after eating we went to g
and there was a Multitude of
People, and I
from
was an affectionate
attention
the
alarmed, and I
crites were
had a little
went to meeting again at Can
dle Lighting, and there
was a
great number of People again
and they attended
after meeting I went home with
with one rSmith
one Hundred Rods from the
meeting
well
man and Woman after
&slong;ation
sation
about 9: in
the morning r
went towards the
r
So we went on; got to r
about 11: and the People began
to
after one we began the meeting,
and the People Seemed
to be tied
to the word, and I believe they
felft the Power of the
word, Soon
after meeting we went to r
McCarty
mare and the man
C
me nothing for keeping my
mare, and went on
and r
and took DTea with them, and
directly went on to the Ferry —
got over about
went to r
and the People Collected toge
ther, and we had a meeting
and there was r
number of People, and they
behaved well,
Same
I saw
and I went to
we got there about 12: and I
and then
we went to meeting
to r
behaved well generally but
not So Solemn
as at other P
after meeting, went back to
little, and in the evening, the
People Collected, at r
and we had a little meeting
after meeting went to
again, and went to bed very
Soon
after
left my folks and went on
to r
got there before noon, and took
Dinner with them,
— at 2
we went to, r
a few Rods, and there we
had meeting, and there was
and they attended well, —
as Soon
as the meeting was done, they
again in the evening, and
I Complied, and I begun
a
gain in about ha
and there was greater at
tention Still, the People
were
much affected, Lodged at r
after r
and I took our
went to
bout 1 we went to meeting, and
there was
a great number of
People, and they attended
with great affection, after
meeting went to r
and, near
to r
evening there, and there was
a great
Number of People a
gain, and they attended with
all gravity, and
after the
People were
ber
out my Cards to the People
and we had agreeable
ci&slong;e
cise
evening the People
and I went to bed Quietly
once more. Thanks be to god
The People
in this Place are
exceeding Friendly and kind
to me, r
Father to me.
after
way; r
a few minutes, and then took
leave of them, and
went on
my way towards
got to t
12: Dined with them, in the
evening we had
a meeting
in r
there was a goodly number
of People — and it was a So
lemn meeting — after g
went home with t
again. and Lodged there,
the t
are exceeding
Folks —
went to
meeting with the People and
it was as a bad way as ever
I was out
in all my
Mirey the
went we got to the Place the
People had got together a
great Number, — they have
a new meeting
large for a new Settlement
I preach to them from
mene
in the
ye are my Friends
Soon after meeting, went to the
old meeting
the Lake— and tchd
the evening, and there was
a
People, here I
r
r
his Son in Law—r
with
I had Examined them abou
the Nature of
and finding them well
ground in the
I
after I had
r
an objection, and we
upon the matter
and I
that I was wrong, and we
and they went a
way, and I went to
begd
quietly once more —
after
fa&slong;t
fast
I
had got to the Place, I met r
Dake
me, and I went with him to his
him, and Soon after Dinner r
Dake
there was a
of people their meeting
is made of Logs, and I
to them from
was an Awful Solemnity in the
home with one r
I was very kindly
old People
ous,
I had Some
Children of the
all grown up but one, and they
together, and after that I went
to Bed Quietly once more
—
Soon after
ly leave of the Family, and I
went on
to
my way, rs
miles and it was very
able
able
to go right back, and it put
me in mind of
to heaven it
Heaven
to
in at Good r
went from
near by where I live, and he
ne&slong;s
ness
meeting a few Rods from r
Otis
Number of People, I
to them from the words— we will
go three Days Journey
evening I
the Same
a good number People of again
I Spoke from
Ruth — what
is thy Petition
Time after meeting had Some
and it was
went home with r
I went to bed
more thanks be to Heaven —
after
about 9: I took Friendly leave
of r
one r
6 or 7 miles, to direct me in
the way
— got to
near 12: and So I went on
got to
evening and I put at one
early in the Morning, and
went over to
a little above the
r
I took
11 it began to Rain hard, and
I r
rath,
here all Night, —
got up very
early even before break of
Day a great while, and the
r
at broad
on my
my way,
Tyger
eating went on again, here
I heard
T
Waucusr
with them, and I never over
took them,
turn of the New Road to our
Peoples Settlements,
was going to one of the
ed back and there was
Smiling, and we went into
together, and Concluded to Stop
here,— and he r
and
back,— and to one r
and Lodged there, —
we got up
quite Early and got ready
to go on our way,
were going off,
Came to our Lodgings, and he
told us
and
in another
I sent
Come to me, and it was a Joy
ful meeting,— and then I
wen
to where the
and they all rejoice to See me
and was with them a little while
and then went
back to r
and Concluded not to go
woods this Day,
a
went
others, I r
This morning was
a Snowy Morning, and it
r
quite
here again this Night —
and I
our Indians new Settlements, and
to Rain and it
not very hard, — and it was
ly
ly
Creeks were very high, and Some
Places very
Mirely, and we were
got in, and Some places were very
Dark where
our Eyes did us
about a mile in the Dark, and
then we
as we
a Melodious
together
Spiritual Songs, we went in
them, and they all took hold of my
Hand
the
began to Sing again, and Some
Time after, I gave them a few words
of
with Prayer,—
and then went to
Sleep Quietly, the
for his great
Was a Snowy Day
was very uncomfortable weather I
and it was
Singers Came in again, and
they
Sang
I gave them a word of Exhortation
and Conclude
with prayer, So we
ended another Day —
Snow is about
is about
and all
the Land is
where, and the Brooks are very
high—
it is not Clear
yet — in the evening we had a
Singing again — This morning
I
on my Stockings, and
difficulty to go out all Day —
Cloudy but
moderate, my back Continues as
it was
it was warm
and oloudy
the
the evening they Sung in
—
Simon
Fowler
but it
Rain, and So
Day, — the Young Folks went
in the evening to
Simon
Fowler
order,
—
his Corn he had a number of
Hands
morning, and little Rain, and
in the
Corn, and the
Psalms and Spiritual Songs the
in the evening,— and after Supper
the Singers Sung
then
Had a meeting
in
of
to the
had eleven
was a number of foot People, and
there was a Solemn
People attended the word with
affection many of them— I
Spoke
from
Noon from XXXII: 1: in the even
ing we had Singing a long
while and then gave them a
word of Exhortation and Conclu
ded with
Prayer —
Monday
nothing dpen'd
only Rainy and Snowy weather
and I was mu
Towards
Night we attended upon the
the
ted
ated
Settlement
The
the Young People, formed in a
Neighbouring
the
lar
age and were Seated according
ly —
and the old People
ed
A great Number of
gers
gers
to attend the
of them were too late —
When I got up, I Spoke to
them Some Time upon the
nature of
nourablene&slong;
nourableness
of it whereby we are
guy&slong;hd
guished
tion: Said Some of the
his
and the Honour he did to it
by working
he
turning water into Wine
and then we prayed, after
Prayer
I
by the Right Hand alternately
and then I
declared them in the
Face of the
ful
to the Law of god — and then
again, with
by
Singing a Marriage Hymn, —
and then the People Sat down,—
and
pointed eimonies
Drink
and then Supper was brought
and we
had
wild Sugar made of Sugar Trees
in the
per, we Spent the Evening in
Singing Psalms
Hymns and
Spiritual Songs, — and after that
every went home Peaceably
with andy
The young
put on their
went to a Neighbours
on
agreeable and Decent, and they
had no
duct, Some Singing
and Spiritual Songs,
in the
ther, and after Dinner every one
went Home
Quietly,— So the
ing
ding
ed,
Honour and great Decency —
and the Lord help this People
to go on Regularly in all their
Concerns
—
Brother
and I went g
for
lately Settled at
there
went to
up and Educated at
DCollege
went to meeting, and many of
our People from our new
Settle
ments Came to meeting, to the
tance
tance
them from
Esther 7: 2: in the Evening we
had another meeting, and
we
had Solemn Day and evening
the People attended with great
attention and
Solemnity, after
I had done Speaking; we
and the Singer
Sung Some Time, and then
per&slong;ed
persed
and
Esther
Quinny
was —
after
to our Place; and
with them, they live twothre
miles from the
and after eating I went on to
and found
them all well,—
in the Evening we met on
our Temporal and Religious
Concerns, — we met once before
but we did not Come to proceed
any
ceeded to form
tick
tic
the Name of
Indian
nuck
Fowler
Tuhy
were
and for
the future, the Committee
is to be
Putchauker
Fence
Concluded to have a
Street is to run North and South
Concluded to live in Peace, and
in
all their
both in their Religious and Tem
poral Concerns, and
to bear his Public part of Pub
lic Charges in
They
Spend Some of my remaining
with them, and make
my Home and Center —
got up early
and
got there
ing, this is a Day of
Prayer, with the People here
and they
the
their Sins before god, and to repent
and beg the Pardon of all their
Sins
and
on them, and to
their New
them in their Religious Life —
and I preach to them, in the
fore
Noon from Jonah 3: 8: in the
and it was a Solemn
many were deeply
attended like Criminals before
the
met again, and they
and gave
to Conduct well and be Careful
in all their Conduct the
winter as they were about to
they may get together in the
Spring in Love and
Peace, —
and after advice, they Spent
Some Time in Singing of
Spiritual Songs, and when
they had done, I gave them a
word of Exhortation,
them to
and Conduct as becomes Rational
Creatures, and
break off from
all
Especially to break off from that
abominable Sin of
and give
and Prayer, and So Conclude
with Prayer, — and the People
at
fa&slong;ted
fastedt
Soon after Eating, I
Home, got to our Place about
12 and found our Folks well—
land and it is the
did See in all my
Tuhy
acre of ground, which he
Cleared
Fall he took of 20
good Corn 56
about 200 Heads of
about 3
about 2
cumbers and Watermelons; of
the Same ground, and it was
Hoe, only leaves and Small
and great many Lodgs
now — and I was told
week among the
Indians
Some Spots of land, where it has
been improved, in Years
Potatoes; where they had been Plan
ted
one man got 3 Skipples, and
he p
and Brother
me and
firmed it that he
Stomp Stood three Summers and
it headed every Year, the
it Stood, it three Heads —
Fowler
bridgers
there was good attention, and
of the word, in
the Evening
we had Some Singing, —
was
ready to return
got up very
early in the morning, and we
were fitting to go off, and
little
after D
David
and
and others Some
there were Eight
mong&slong;t
mongst
and we got
as the Sun was going down
I put up at r
we
and I got to r
in the Evening, and Lodged
there,
and
were there
I
early and about 11: I got
to t
et
for our Folks,
we Lodged
—
I went
to
there about 1: put up at
rC
were very Glad to See me
and I was as glad, and
Lodge
there, had a meeting here
this Evening, and
there was
a
they attended well, —
I left
the Family, r
with me about four miles
and So we parted, and I
to r
o: c: and here I put up,
was received with
here I overtook my Son
ny
to
ple, and they attended with
with all
were
in morning From Acts 9
Lord What Wilt thou —
in
the
So is he that Sayeth
Son, and 3 Stockbridge
girls were here
I Lodged here again,
Some
in the morning it was
about 8: I
So far to r
Wormer
from the
Woods North Side
—
This Day I Saw the d
r
in
River
public
quite Friendly at once, he
Come along this way again
at any Time, to Call upon
him, and have
a
with his People, and I told I
very early, and it was
very Cold morning, and did
not
ed, took Breakfast before
I
my way,
was very Riding it was not
in Muddy holes; I got to r
in
and found them all well, and
put up
here, and took Dinner
with them, Concluded to have a
meeting this Evening.
about
Daylight in I went r
to meeting and there was a
&slong;iderabl
siderable
from
People attended with
ne&slong;s
ness
to r
Some after
Breakfast
Called
r
and it was
way,— got there
went into r
where the meeting is to be, a
bout 2: we began the
meeting
and there was
Number of People Collected toge
ther,
and it is a New Settlement,
and the People attended with
all
gravity and Solemnity, I believe
Some felt the Power of the word,
Soon
after Meeting, one r
Coffin
with me, and we had
&slong;ateon
sation
without much Debate, for we
People
the r
r
S
very agreeable
and their Son in Law his Nam
was
Nation, was very much
Psalms we had Some debate a
bout them, and upon Some
o
th
was
by the Heads of the Family and
all the Young People;
Slept
very Comfortably,—
got up
quite early,
r
with me, and we to
about 10, r
and Dined with them, and had
after Dinner went to r
from there to meeting about
a mile, where was a Sick
woman, we
Soon got there
r
another man, had Some
ver&slong;ation
versation
and found her
will of god,
began the
was but few People and they
attended with great
and Some affection — I Spoke
from
r
home with him to Stay all Nigh
and was Treated very kindly
Tenderly, —
got up early
and
and then went back,
at r
with him, and afterwards
went to r
the evening went to meeting
again in
r
and there was
Number of People and there
was great Solemnity among
the People,
I Spoke from
James
went back to r
and Lodged there, had
a number Friends to
me this Evening, Some Scotch
People and we had quite
did not prea
was
kindly, he is a
Denomination,
for had Some Company, rc
Larran
Larran
us and very
tion
tion
to
about half after
ten we went to meeting, a few
Rods in a Barn, and there
was
a great Number of People, for
a new Settlement, and I Spoke
from I.
Samuel. 15: 14 in the after
noon from
was great and Sober attention
through the
Some felt the
after meeting went home with
r
with them, — and in the
went to r
a Scotchman, and had a meet
ing
there and there was a goo
number of People, and I
to them from
I believe we had Some
both in Preaching and in
hearing —
tertaind
tertained
was at
r
fa&slong;t
fastr
was there
after, and then r
r
to a
a number of People, but grea
many, and I married the
ple
lereir Names were r
behaved
exceeding well, —
good Cake and
went back again, I
at r
home, and thenr
and Lodged, once more, and his
Brother Lodged there
Took my
leave of r
about 9: O'C: and I directed my
r
we parted before we got to the
Place,
and I went on to the
Town, got there
before Night; r
Shooter
then went to See r
Friend, and found them all well
and was there a
while, and his
Son Came in, and he invited ^ to
go home with him, and there
I
Lodged, and kindly Treated,
got up early
took rsr
I went to See Several Friends
dr
the Place, and he
Friendly, but I
about 10 O: C: I went over the
Ferry again to go to the
Acresr
me again, we
about 7. miles, and there we
parted in
on, r
to warm my feet, and I had
but few minutes, before the wo‐
man,
Stay
C got
it ready Quick, and I eat very
Hearty, and
the man of the
and
and as I was going away, he
gain before I left the Place,
I told him I
on to r
and found them all well, and was
kindly
I put up there,—
Was at
r
went to r Woods
and Dined there, and
before r
Rogers
and
in the Scriptures and I believe
they were
they are
very
the man was not well
with r
we
had a long talk upon them, we
did not agree about them, but
we did
and Read a C
together and then went to^ Peaceable
and I had a Comfortable Sleep
—
Got ^ early and
took
eating we Sung and Read, and
then I had Some
Family with my Christian Cards
and it was very Solemn and
my good leave of the Family, and
r
the
to r
number of People and I
to them from, Acts 2: 37: and
there was great Solemnity and
Some affection I believe they felt
after meeting a Number of the
People
I had
Family, with my
and it was very
and
we went to Bed quietly, —
about 10 went
to r
I went to r
half mile wvery
kind to me, and
he is
Dinner with him, and was there
them, and
r
there, —
r
to meeting with an ox
his whole Family went and
I went with them, the meeting
was again in r
and there was a
of People
Day, I Spoke from
and was uncommon attention
and Flow of Tears, from old and
Young, and I am
Power of the was felt by many
Souls, I
after meeting, I took Dinner
with reark
ing we
we went to good old r
and Comfortable
it
was very Comfortable meet
ing, and was great many
I Spoke from Matt 5: 13. r
Nothrop
and after the meeting was
over
a Number
I dgd