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Nabby at home. M" C. came with Chaise and bro't me home. Slept : and H : at home. Thursday. Wrote to D' Witherspoon,' and to M' S. Adams at Congress. Nabby went my H : and ch. to Menotomy with Hannah Cook and din'd at her Father's. I walk'd to Watertown din'd at M" Hunt's. M" C. at home. We all slept and Horse at home. Wrote this day to M' Hooker N. Hampton. Newman came with my Goods. M' Cook part of Evg. Friday 26. We all din'd at home. Mrs C. went (my H and ch j p. m. to Brown's at little Cambridg. We all slept and H at home. Sat. 27. M" C. went (my H : and ch) to little Cambridge. She din'd. Nabby and 1 din'd at home, we all drank Coffee, slept, and H. at home. Lord's day. 28'" JanK Went (my H and ch) with M C. and Nabby to Watertown. pch'd all day there. We din'd at D. Fisk's. Nabby at M' Hall's : and drank Coffee there, slept and H. at home. 2g"' Alonday. M" C. and Nabby went my H : and ch. to Enoch Brown's, little Cambridg. They return'd a. m. Cap't Freeman and Wife came to visit us about 12 "Clock and din'd with us. They gave us a fine Leg of Mutton. 2"' Butter. 2"' Coffee. They drank Coffee, supt and slept with us ; their Horse kept with ours. We gave Butter, Mut- ton and Coffee to Miss Sally. 30. Went with Capt Freeman (my H : and ch) to Watertown. returned a. m. Our Friends din'd with us. They went p. m. with M" Cooper (my H : and ch) to Watertown, old Madam Hunt's. They supt slept and Horse kept with us. jz. Wednesday. Our Friends Capt. Freeman and Wife breakfasted with us, and left us about 10 "Clock. Mrs. C. and I went about the same Time (my H: and ch.) to Medford. I visited and pray'd with Miss Nanny Payne, sick at Mr Brook's, din'd at M' Turell's M" Cooper went on Business towards the Bridge. She din'd, sold twenty silk Handkerchiefs, return'd by Watertown Meeting House. Nabby din'd at home; where we all Drank Coffee; slept and Horse. I. Feb Thursday. M" C. went (my H: and chaise) to Dorchester, on Business. She din'd. Nabby and I at home. D' Langdon call'd upon me in the Evg. We all slept and H: at home. 2 Feby. Friday. Mrs. Cooper went after Breakfast (my H: and ch) to Milton. She din'd. drank Coffee at Sister Gardiner's slept at M" Foyes. I walk'd to Watertown a. m. din'd at D. Fisk's. Nabby at home. Horse with M" C. at M'" Foye's. J. Saturday. Nabby and I din'd at home. M" Cooper return'd to us in Evg. very cold. We all drank Coffee, supt and H at home. 4. Lord' s day. Went with M||C (my H : and ch) and with Nabby to Watertown. I pch'd there all day. read Proclamation f'm General > The Rev. John Witherspoon, D.D., president of the college of New Jersey, and a delegate to the Continental Congress. ^ See extract from a letter of Dr. Cooper of about this date, in Proc. Masi. Hist. Soc. 1875-76, p. 279.