Showing posts with label Daniel Wister. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daniel Wister. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, February 7, 1766

Accompanied Daniel Wister to the meet at Hannah Williams's, where we met the gentlemen hunters. Peter Wikoff wore the brush.

SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 10

Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, March 18, 1766

Went over Schuylkill to meet D. Wister and his brother William, and brother-in-law, Owen Jones, to shoot pigeons.

SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 10

Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, April 16, 1766

Daniel Wister went with me to the Schuylkill to see the great freshet.

SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 11

Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, May 29, 1766

Daniel Wister and myself went to the Green to see a £10 race between Joseph Hogg's and John Buckingham's horses.

SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 11

Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, June 24, 1766

Received the news that Daniel Wister had a son born and named John.

SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 11

Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, October 21, 1766

Attended the funeral of Daniel Wister's son; he was five months old.

SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 12