Very, very cold! Delaware frozen over. Three sleighloads of us went to Darby to Joseph Rudolph's, Joseph Fox, Robert Smith, Robert Erwin and wife, William Jones and Mrs. Gray, his intended, and two daughters, Hannah Gardner, John Biddle, Leonard Stoneburner, my wife and self.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 12
Called in my sleigh for Mrs. Reynell, took her to see the Bettering House, and then left her at Edward Penington's.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 12
Went to Middle Ferry (Jonathan Humphreys') to see how high the water was at twelve o'clock last night. It moved the chairhouse about 100 yards. Thomas Shoemaker and I measured at the hay barrack, below the house, where the water left a mark, and found it had been five feet four inches.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 13
Spent the evening at John Biddle's, with Robert Erwin, Robert Smith, and William Jones.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 13
Set off from Jonathan Humphreys' to a fox hunt with the following gentlemen: Zeb. Rudolph, Joseph Jones, Mr. Pallard, Cornelius Francis, Charles Willing, Sam. Morris, Anthony Morris, Richard Bache, and James Massey, huntsman. We afterward dined at Massey's house.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 13
To-night with my wife, Daniel Wister, and Timothy Matlack, attended the play called "Cato."
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 13
Took a walk to near the brick kilns with Emanuel and Jacob Carpenter, Daniel Wister and Adam Kimmell. This afternoon William Jones and Mrs. Gray were married.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 13
My wife and I went to the play and saw acted Romeo and Juliet.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 13
At noon went to William Jones's to drink punch, met several of my friends, and got decently drunk. The groom could not be accused of the same fault.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 13
Drank punch at John Hughes's, who lately married Stephen Paschall's daughter.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 13
Last night heavy rain with thunder and lightning. The Moravian meeting house was struck.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 13
Timothy Matlack, J. Lukens, Palmer, and myself measured the new race track very exact, and find it lacks 144 yards of being two miles.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 13
Four horses started in the 100 guinea race: Selim, Granby, Old England, and Northumberland. Selim won.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 13
James Hamilton, Samuel Powell, and Francis Hopkinson returned from England.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 14
General Gage reviewed the troops on the Commons.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 14
The gentlemen hunters let a fox loose at Centre Woods, which afforded an agreeable ride after the hounds till dark. The fox ran up a tree on the Schuylkill side, and when Levi Hollingsworth climbed up after him, it jumped down and was killed.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 14
In the evening came James Wharton, Tench Tilghman, Samuel Hudson, Zebulon Rudolph, and Joseph Jones.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 14
From Rudolph's the following gentlemen, Samuel Miles, Levi Hollingsworth, Israel Morris, Joseph Jones, Samuel Nichols, Zebulon Rudolph, and Jeremiah Warder, went to Lower Tinicum fox hunting. There we were met by Charles, Richard, and James Willing, and after riding about the woods until two o'clock, without the sign of a fox, we returned to Joseph Rudolph's and dined.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 14
Daniel Wister was weighed to-day, 270 pounds; and I, 161 pounds.
SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 14
This day arrived at New Castle, the ship Minerva, Captain Lindsey, from Newry, with four hundred and fifty passengers.
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, p. 8
