“And immediately there was a meeting sett upp and kept at the house of Mark Newby, and in a short time it grew and increased, unto which William Cooper and family, that lived at the Poynte resorted, and sometimes the meeting was kept at his house, who had been settled sometime before. Zeal and fervency of spirit was what, in some degree, at that time abounded among friends, in commemoration of our prosperous success and eminent preservation, both in our coming over the great deep as also that whereas we were but few at that time, and the Indians many, where by it put a dread upon our spirits, considering they were a savage people; but ye Lord, that hath the hearts of all in his hands, which cannot be otherwise accounted but to be the Lord doings in our favor, which we had cause to praise his name for. “And that the rising generation may consider that the Settlement of the country was directed by an impulse upon tranquility, but rather for the posterity yet should be after, and that the wilderness being planted with a good seed, might grow and increase to the satisfaction of the good husbandman. But instead thereof, if for wheat it should bring forth tares, they themselves will suffer loss. “This narration I have thought good and requisite to leave behind, as having had knowledge of things from the beginning.” ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON. Thatcher, in his Military Journal, gives a vivid description of the sufferings of the troops during “the hard winter of 1779–1780,” at Morristown, N. J. He says: