My Employer having a Negro Woman, sold her, and desired me to write a Bill of Sale, the Man being waiting who bought her: The Thing was sudden; and, though the Thoughts of writing an Instrument of Slavery for one of my Fellow-creatures felt uneasy, yet I remembered I was hired by the Year, that it was my Master who directed me to do it, and that it was an elderly Man, a Member of our Society, who bought her; so, through Weakness, I gave way, and wrote; but, at the executing it, I was so afflicted in my Mind, that I said, before my Master and the Friend, that I believed Slave-keeping to be a Practice inconsistent with the _Christian_ Religion: This in some Degree abated my Uneasiness; yet, as often as I reflected seriously upon it, I thought I should have been clearer, if I had desired to have been excused from it, as a Thing against my Conscience; for such it was. And, some Time after this, a young Man, of our Society, spoke to me to write a Conveyance of a Slave to him, he having lately taken a Negro into his House: I told him I was not easy to write it; for, though many of our Meeting and in other Places kept Slaves, I still believed the Practice was not right, and desired to be excused from the writing. I spoke to him in Good-will; and he told me that keeping Slaves was not altogether agreeable to his Mind; but that the Slave being a Gift to his Wife, he had accepted of her. CHAPTER II _His first Journey, on a religious Visit, into_ East-Jersey, _in Company with_ ABRAHAM FARRINGTON--_His Thoughts on merchandizing, and his learning a Trade_--_His second Journey, with_ ISAAC ANDREWS, _into_ Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, _and_ North Carolina--_His third Journey, with_ PETER ANDREWS, _through Part of_ West _and_ East-Jersey--_Some Account of his Sister_ ELIZABETH, _and her Death_--_His fourth Journey, with_ PETER ANDREWS, _through_ New-York _and_ Long-Island, _to_ New-England--_And his fifth Journey, with_ JOHN SYKES, _to the eastern Shore of_ Maryland, _and the lower Counties on_ Delaware