Aboute the 10 _Jan_^{y.} 1795, Mr. Diott _sent for_ me to come to dine with him. I went with much fear and trembling, as it was ever a great cross to me to be with my great superiers, and so in every place I moved at a solam awe of the presance of God resting upon me with a fear to ofend him. There I meet with Mr. and Mrs. M., with all their loving famely, and through the tender mercy of God, after all our tryals and sufferings, being separated to nearley sixteen months from each other, escaped, through mercy, all the lyons in France, not one hair of our heads diminished. We staid there until evning, when Mr. Diot said, "I will in the course of a few days gitt you out of preson and you shall boath come to live at my house." We thanked him, wished good night, and arived at home with our gard aboute seven. So the 23 Jany. 1795, in the morning, we was boath librated. I went to Mr. Diot's, Mr. C. went with Mr. Morrow in the same town. Still pervision at that time _ver_y scarce to be had, the inhabitants of the town had all their _provisions_ sarved out every day according to their famely. _Without_ we had money we should not be able to gett board _on any_ account. I was received _into t_hat famely as a king, treated as if I had been a noble_man, and_ being the laste strainger was placed at the head of _the table_, where I begged to be excused again and again, but _could not_ prevail. But to the end of six or seven days I shifted _to the other_ end, where I thought I was more in my place. _I thought_ it then, as I have many times since, a piece of _bread be_hind the kitchen door was more suitable for me. _Praise be_ to God, here was a chainge again indeed. _From_ a stable to a parlar, and from a parlar to a [...]. _I eat_ mostimes my three meals, _the_n for fear to be not_iced, I always eat_ sparingly. I think I can say I allwayse _rose up with a_ sharper apetite then I had when I sat down. I lodged in a large house to myself next dore to Mr. Diot's, where I had no person to desturb me day nor night. This was a blessed chainge again, it was just the place I would wish to be in. I was there aboute two or three weeks, when I saw sume things wanting to be done aboute two vessels that was laid up before my door, belonging to Mr. Diot. I spoak of it to Mr. Peter Diot, and went to work, and when the season sarved, I washed the decks morning and evening; and as I had a chest of carpentar's tools in the same room with me, made boats' oars, ruddars, painted names in the starn of the small boats, etc.; that I was mostly imployed all the week. But my wark not hard, as I was my own master, and I did it all volentary. And on the Sabbath day I went out of town evry morning and afternoon when the weather was _fair_ in sume solatry place to read, pray, sing, and _think_, as I did in other places. I think it was aboute _the_ midle of March 1795, Mr. M. was taken sick with _fever_ and agas, and in the