Continuation of his visit to Friends in some parts of Ohio, Indiana, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1828. Decease of his wife in 1829. Visit to Friends in the yearly meeting of New-York in 1829. 411 APPENDIX. Letter to Hugh Judge in 1830. 439 His decease in 1830. Memorial of the monthly meeting of Jericho in 1830. 444 TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE. JOURNAL OF ELIAS HICKS. CHAPTER I. Birth, 1748.--Early visitations of Divine grace.--Apprenticeship.--Trials and temptations.--Marriage, 1771.--Renewed visitations of Divine love.--Appearance in the Ministry.--Situation of Friends during the war.--Journey to Philadelphia, 1779.--Visit to Friends on the Main, 1781.--Illness, 1781.--Visit on Long Island, 1782.--Visit to the Meetings on the Main, 1782. Having experienced many mercies and preservations, both spiritual and temporal, in passing through this probationary state, I am induced to record some little account of them, under a sense of humble gratitude to my gracious and merciful Creator and Preserver. I was born on the 19th day of the third month, 1748, in the township of Hempstead, in Queens county, on Long Island. My parents, John and Martha Hicks, were descended from reputable families, and sustained a good character among their friends and those who knew them. My father was a grandson of Thomas Hicks, of whom our worthy friend Samuel Bownas makes honourable mention in his journal, and by whom he was much comforted and strengthened, when imprisoned through the envy of George Keith, at Jamaica, on Long Island. Neither of my parents were members in strict fellowship with any religious society, until some little time before my birth. My father was at that period united in membership with Friends; but as his residence was mostly at some distance from meetings and in a neighbourhood where very few Friends lived, my associates, when young, were chiefly among those of other religious persuasions, or, what was still worse for me, among those who made no profession of religion at all. This exposed me to much temptation; and though I early felt the operation of divine grace, checking and reproving me for my lightness and vanity, yet being of a lively active spirit, and ambitious of excelling in my play and diversions, I sometimes exceeded the bounds of true moderation, for which I often felt close conviction and fears on my pillow in the night season.