anxiety your friends feel for you, in that distant country. (Ob- serve the harmony of the multiplicity of your, in the foregoing sentence.) Considering you exposed to the in- vincible charms of those fair Dutch wenches, with their dozen pair of petticoats they are really afraid, that you will loose your

basin; also, part of the division wall. June 4—Voting for school laws; polled 574 votes; only one against the schools. July 25—Butter sold in our mar- kets this morning at 25 cents. Out- rageous! August 1—Water turned into the repaired basin. �August 8—Potatoes sold at $1.50 per bushel on market to-day

must have been, for it is also noted (p. 23) that "there was paid to Stephen Atkinson, 5th month, 30th day, 1722, £2 for' two wolss." It is of this man, and of the fulling mill which he built, with a few notes concerning others os the same name, gathered srom the old deeds, �records and wills os a long

other chronicler must find them. He took his wife to the theatre to hear "Cato" and to see "Romeo and Juliet," but presumably he left her at home, when,on February 4, 1767, he reverently records: "At noon went to William Jones' to drink punch, met several of my friends and got decently drunk," The groom