Breakfasted at five
o'clock at Mrs. Gray's, with Enoch Story, Samuel Morris, Dr. John Cox, Mr.
Petit, John Cadwalader, and Levi Hollingsworth; then set out for Darby
fox-hunting. The number of hunters was thirty, who, by eleven o'clock, killed
three foxes. Dined at Joseph Rudolph's, and at evening returned home with
Hollingsworth. The other hunters remained over night for another hunt in the
morning.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox
Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of
Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 9
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