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Subject: [NJ] Extracts from Diary of Samuel MICKLE (1746~1830) ~ #7
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:48:06 EST
Extracts from Diary of Samuel MICKLE (1746~1830) ~ #7
1805
January 6th ~ Read part of Isaac ANDREW(S) manuscript journal.
January 16th ~ Wife drawn over Delaware River in sleigh by the Ferryman on
the ice.
March 2nd ~ Samuel HUGG deceased yesterday.
March 15th ~ John KNIGHT and Sarah JONES married.
March 19th ~ Sowed my lot in Spring wheat.
April 20th ~ In Philadelphia. Cousin Samuel Mickle FOX, being President of
the Pennsylvania Bank, showed it to me from top to bottom. Was out on its
stone roof and down in ye cellar. Very curious indeed.
May 4th ~ Wrote certificate for Samuel PACKER and wife and family to the
Miami's in ye State of Ohio.
May 5th ~ Edward VAUGHN died at Mullica Hill yesterday. Buried in
Presbyterian Burial Ground near Woodbury today.
May 7th ~ Attended funeral of John HAINES.
May 13th ~ Anne DOWN interred today.
May 13th ~ Received order from President of Fire Company to call a special
meeting.
May 18th ~ Read Martha ROUTH's manuscript Journal (London to America).
June 9th ~ Received account of decease of Mary, wife of Samuel DENNY, at
Haddonfield, late. Mary WEST, daughter of Thomas and Deborah WEST.
June 21st ~ Abel CLEMENTS, son of Thomas, had his barn burned by lightening.
July 10th ~ Wheat reaping. Six sickles.
July 27th ~ Jonathan GIBSON, deceased. Buried in Friends' Graveyard.
August 15th ~ Marmaduke BURR died.
July 22nd ~ Attended funeral of Mary GIBSON, wife of Joseph GIBSON, she was
upward of 80 years of age.
August 23rd ~ Yellow fever in Philadelphia.
September 10th ~ DUNN & OWEN, No. 48 N. Front Street, Philadelphia, moved
their merchandise into my shop.
September 20th ~ Ebenezer MILLER deceased. Also, Joseph THACKARA.
September 27th ~ Aaron CHEW and David BASSET's wife deceased of yellow fever
at CHEW's Landing; also Samuel ELLIS died.
October 1st ~ Mentions death of a young woman of yellow fever at residence of
Ephraim TOMLINSON in Woodbury, and that his son, Joseph TOMLINSON living
between the two Timber Creeks, died of it October 1st.
October 23rd ~ Eliza VANDIVERE, [Van DIVERE], widow, a female tailor, a maker
of mens and boys clothes, come to work.
October 27th ~ Louisa, wife of Elisha CLARK, on visit.
November 18th ~ At Elisha CLARK's Vendue. Party spirit has wrested ye Clerks
office from him and bestowed it on Charles OGDEN.
November 21st ~ Elisha CLARK and his family removed to Philadelphia.
December 6th ~ Invited to visit Eliz COWPERTHWAITH's school ye p.m. at ye
Presbyterian's Academy.
December 8th ~ Rebecca, wife of cousin James HOPKINS of Haddonfield, deceased.
Continued....................
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