Being the King's
birthday, dined on the banks of the Schuylkill in company of about 380 persons.
Several healths were drunk, among them Dr. Franklin, which gave great
satisfaction to the company. A long boat was taken there on four wagon wheels,
and many great guns fired.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox
Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of
Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 11
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