Prepare to hear amazing things. The Gen'l was invited to dine, was engag'd; but Col. Wood and Line, Majr Stodard, and Dr. Edwards din'd with us.
In the afternoon, Stodard, addressing himself to mamma, "Pray, ma'am, do you know Miss Nancy Bond1?" I told him of the amiable girl's death. This major had been to Philada College.2
In the evening, I was diverting Johnny3 at the table, when he drew his chair to it, and began to play with the child. I ask'd him if he knew N. Bond. "No, ma'am, but I have seen her very often." One word brought on another, and we chatted the greatest part of the evening.
1 NANCY BOND.—“On Monday morning [September 9, 1776] died, and yesterday was interred in Christ-Church Burying-ground, Miss Nancy Bond, second daughter of Dr. Phineas Bond, deceased. She had just compleated her 19th year, and possessed so many amiable qualities, both natural and acquired, that she was truly dear to all her acquaintance, and peculiarly the delight of her nearest relatives in her private and domestic life."—Pennsylvania Gazette, September 18, 1776.
2 Now the University of Pennsylvania.
3 JOHN WISTER, Sally's infant brother, was born March 20, 1776, and died December 12, 1862. He was married in 1798 to Elizabeth Harvey, of Bordentown, New Jersey, and resided at his seat "Vernon," in Germantown. —Wister, "Memoir of Charles J. Wister"; Glenn, "Merion," 277.
SOURCE: Albert Cook Myers, Editor, Sally Wister's Journal A True Narrative Being A Quaker Maiden's Account Of Her Experiences With Officers Of The Continental Army, 1777-1778, pp. 89-91
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