Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, September 4, 1767

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

Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, October 13, 1767

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

Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, October 23, 1767

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

Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, October 26, 1767

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

Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, December 12, 1767

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

Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, December 17, 1767

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

Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, December 26, 1767

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

Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, December 31, 1767

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

Diary of Christopher Marshall, July 11, 1774

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

Diary of Christopher Marshall, July 15, 1774

This day, about four o'clock, P. M. met at the Carpenters' Hall, in this city, the representatives appointed to attend from the several committees of the different counties in this Province, viz. Bucks, Chester, Lancaster, York, Cumberland, Berks, Northampton, and Northumberland, to confer with the committee chosen by this city and county, and also to consult and consider what may be proper to propose to our General Assembly that is called by our Governor to meet the 18th instant, respecting the critical situation of all the American Colonies. There appeared in this meeting great unanimity, and a set of resolves [was adopted] in general, declaratory of the sense of this Province on the present state of British America, and the peculiar sufferings

of our brethren in Boston, in order to lay before our Assembly, the 18th.

Arrived this day at New Castle, the ship Peace and Plenty, Captain McKinzey, with four hundred passengers, from Belfast.

SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, pp. 8-9