and encamped. The Rhode Island Regiment ordered to relieve the Hampshire line at the northward.

October 29th, 1782...Marched with our baggage about five miles to our ground for hutting and encamped.

November 4th.-The ground for hutting being laid out in a wood about five miles north-west of New Windsor, we moved on it, pitched our tents, and began to build chimneys to them.

November 5th.-Our troops mustered, the inspection being dispensed with.

November 7th.-Began to erect the men's huts; dimensions, 27 by 18 feet, divided by a partition in the centre. Each company build two of these double huts, one in front and one in the rear, in two regular, straight lines. The timber was heavy and the work very fatiguing.

November 14th.-Some of the men began to move into their huts, and the officers to lay the foundation of theirs.

December 1st.-We moved into our hut and began to erect a kitchen.

December 12th.-Orders came out for one officer of a company to go on furlough, one non-commissioned officer and two privates. December 13th.-Captains Ballard, Holes and Leonard left camp, and Lieut. Hopper.

December 16th.-Came on a snow which by the morning following was two feet deep.

January 2d, 1783.-Our regiment marched to do duty on the lines for two weeks.

January 19th.-Returned to their huts. C. C. liked to have fallen through the ice.

February 11th.-Licut. Col. Barber, lately appointed to command our regiment, in riding from camp to his quarters about 1 o'clock P. M., was suddenly killed on his horse by the fall of a tree, which accidentally happened to cross the path where he was riding.

February 13th.-He was buried with the honors of war at Bethlehem burying ground and from thence carried, after the firing, to Wallkill, and deposited in the burying ground of his family.

April 19th-The cessation of hostilities was announced in camp just eight years from the commencement thereof.

June 6th. Our brigade received their furloughs, and we all decamped.

June 7th.-Arrived in Newark.

June 11th.-Chose the officers of the Cincinnati at Elizabethtown, where we received our baggage and proceeded on.

June 12th.-Arrived at Trenton.

June 14th.-Went to Burlington.
June 15th.--To Philadelphia.

June 16th.-To Woodbury.

June 17th.-To Cohansey.

September 16th.-Set out to Princeton.

September 22d.-The Jersey Society of the Cincinnati met.
October 1st.-Arrived at Cohansey,

November 3d.-Was discharged from the service of the United States by a Proclamation of Congress, after having served seven years and nine months, wanting five days, in the following capacities, viz:

From the 8th of February, 1776, to the 9th of April following, as an Ensign in the 3d Jersey Regiment.

From the 9th of April, '76, to the 1st of April, '77, as a Lieu. tenant of the same.

From that day to the 5th of July, '78, as Surgeon's Mate in the 2d Jersey Regiment, and from that day till the present as Surgeon of said Regiment.

Two months and one day Ensign: eleven months and twenty one days Lieutenant; one year, three months and four days Sur geon's Mate; five years, three months and twenty-eight days Surgeon.

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EXTRACT FROM A DIARY

BY MR. JACOB SPICER,

OF CAPE MAY COUNTY.

Communicated by Maurice Beesley, M. D.

[JACOB SPICER (associated with Aaron Leaming in compiling the volume so well known as Leaming and Spicer's Grants and Concessions,) was a prominent man for many years in the southern part of New Jersey-was a member of the Provincial Assembly, &c., and died on Cold Spring Neck, where was his residence, September 17th, 1765, in his 49th year. He was actively engaged most of his life in traffic with the adjoining provinces, and left a Diary or Memoranda Book which contains many entries highly interesting from the light they shed upon the manners, customs, pursuits, &c., of the people in his neighborhood. Some of these have been communicated to the Society by Dr. Beesley.

The following extract is illustrative of Mr. Spicer's own domestic economy in 1757.]

AFTER an enumeration in figures of his family expenses, he thus

wrote

It is conceived that £14 13s. 4d., as above estimated, will be adequate to furnish all the boys with leather for breeches, a vest for Elisha, a coat and vest for Jack, calico for long and short gowns for all the girls, stripe linen and stripe linsey for short gowns and petticoats for the said girls, and a tammy quilt for Judith, for defraying of which £14 13s. 4d.-220 pair of mittens at 16d. per pair, will be needed, which will require 44 pounds of wool, which will take 44 days' work of two girls to spin, and I'll pay for that or hire equivalent in the knitting if the girls will do the remainder of the service.

I must pursue the following maxims invariably for the present year. I must fabricate 220 pair of mittens, and for the present and future year, if I live, must supply my boys with leather for winter breeches: about £3 Ss. will be sufficient to furnish them all-24 pounds of grey skin at 2s. per pound, and 2s. 6d. for dressing and freight of each skin, supposed to consist of 8 skins, tho' I think summac red or short grey, will be most profitable to buy as the hair is almost nothing, which is not so when the skin is fully coated.

In the next place I must buy my leather and heels, and spin my shoe thread, and have all my shoes made up in the house, for I find if I even hire 'em made out, find my leather, the shoemaker

gains, in all probability, a profit of 3s. on the leather of a man's pair of shoes, waste in cutting excepted, for which I should think 4d. a large allowance, and the scraps of sole leather may be converted into lists; and an eye may be seen to the cutting, and the thread may be had from the family labor. And when I am shoe. ing my family it is requisite to supply each individual with two pair, to prevent shoes being worn too green. And as a farther advantage in purchasing my leather, I can at all times take care that it be of good quality, and by having it made up together and in my house will avoid the loss of time in running after the same; and I should get one of the boys instructed so as to mend shoes, to save money and prevent loss of time. The shoemaker should be obliged to do his day's work or pay for his board.

In the next place I should hire my taylor and Tayloress in the house, and oblige my girls to assist in the service, for by this means my diet and female service will become a part of the Taylor's bill; besides, their day's wages, as far as I can discern, are not proportionate to the sum in gross they ask for their service, and having the clothes made at home and together there may be an oversight of the cloth and cut, and the loss of time in going to have clothes taken measure for and tried on.

The best time for hiring, I think, is such seasons of the year when the weather is not so cold as to need a fire.

In the next place it will be requisite to consult a blacksmith to know what allowance he will make for iron and steel.

Daniel Harcourt informs me that mittens sell for 3s., and stockings for 7s., York money, at Albany, without any regard to the colour, and many of 'em ordinary too--but wampum will not sell since the reduction of Oswego, before that it was in great demand, equal if not superior to silver in value, and there were 60 or 70 wampum shops in Albany.

BY REV. NICHOLAS COLLIN, D.D.

Copied from their Church Record, and presented to the Society by Col. Robt. G .Johnson.

By letters to the Arch-Bishop and Consistory of Upsal, dated the 8th of July, 1778, I solicited in pressing terms for my recall. I had then officiated for about 8 years within the Mission, to wit: as Minister extraordinary in all the congregations from my ar rival, the 12th of May, 1770, till the 19th of Aug. 1773; from that time as Rector of Racoon and Penn's Neck; and since the year 1775 as Commissary of the Mission.

I had consequently not only served the usual term required for obtaining preferment at home, but I was moreover under absolute necessity of departing. The rents of the Church lands had by the depreciation of the current money, and the dearness of many necessary articles, fallen to a tenth part of the real value. The Congregations had suffered great distress from the War, and many of the more able members were as usual unwilling to con. tribute for the support of Public Worship.

There was no prospect of peace or civil order for several years, and consequently no hopes of relief, a temporary vacancy, though prejudicial to the congregations, was therefore inevitable; at the same time a saving of the little Church revenue after my departure would shorten this vacancy by adding to the support of my All this was fully represented in the mentioned letter,

successor.