Rode from Queens Town over a low levil Country 7 miles to a small Tavern--Breakfasted 1/7 rode thence by a small Town call'd Churchill--thence to the Head of Chester River 22 miles here I dined my Company gone to the Chester Races which happen to morrow--Expence 2/4 Rode thence to Warwick 12 miles My Horses feet swell this Evening _Teusday 25._ Bill at Warwick--supper 1/3--Oats./8--Stable Hay & Lodging 2/.--Glass of Wine Bitters./4--Rode thence to Port Penn 15 miles expence there 1/7--Ferriage 5/.--Arrived once more by Gods Kindness in New-Jersey among my friends & relations I found many of my Acquaintances have gone off the Stage Uncle _Seeley_; _Damon James_; Mrs _Reeve_; _James Boyd_; & several others--And many are Sick--Our Family through divine Goodness are in Health.-- [LETTER OF PHILIP V. FITHIAN TO ELIZABETH BEATTY] Greenwich Novem: 30: 1774. TO LAURA. --The Widow left the Room after begging that I would stay to Coffee--I was seated near the Toilet on which Miss had thrown her Piece of Drawing.--I viewed it, She saw me, & began a fine Apology--That her Situation is so lonely, being out of the Way of Entertainment by Company!--That Music & Drawing are her chief & necessary Amusements--That She was glad of the Opportunity of an Hours Conversation even of an utter Stranger--That She came to America about the 20th: of last May, with a Brother who is since returned--That her Aunt is desirious She may stay in Mary-land & be a Companion and Intimate with her--That since July She has had the Ague and Fever, which had left her only a few Days--And, said She, I want very much to up to Philada:--I heard all this with great Attention & Patience;--When She had finished her Story, I asked her in turn several Questions which she answered with Propriety, & the greatest Apparent Frankness--Til She came to the Answer which I have before set down, then I smil'd--You came then from Britain, Miss--No Sir, I came from London!--Fearing a Proposal to wait on her down to Annapolis, & thence to Philadelphia, the moment I had drank two Dishes of Coffee, which was a few Minutes before Sunset I mounted & rode twenty Miles--