ab' of a mile from her house met wh Joseph Yeates, of Philadelphia, who returned with us & after eating our Dinner of Cold Pork & Apple Pye, we sett Out again on our Journey in Company with Jos. Yeates.

The land here is something Better but all inclin'g to sand & many Pines growing all along the Road, which still continue the [torn] that I ever saw. We have had no Hay since We left Dover, but Corn Blades wth Oat sheaves on Which our Horses seem to feed very Well.

Came in the Evening to Snow Hill, which lies on Pokomoke River, a Poor Miserable little Town, & lodged at David Morrow's. Were well Entertain'd, considering the Place, There is here a Large new Court House Building. Here we Lodged well had good clean Oats for our Horses & Good Blades.

I forgot to take notice of One thing viz: That through the Counties of Kent & Sussex you see more Mulattos than of any other color. And one thing is also observable in Maryland, that they give Rum to their Children Even at three Years old which they will drink like Water, & I think it a very scandalous practice & told them so.

30th. Sett out this Morning Again on our Journey after Breakfasting on Chocolate & bated our Horses at one Nehemiah Holland where we also bought some Indian Corn to carry with us in Ord' to bait again in the Woods for there are no publick Houses so that Travellers are obliged to impose on Gentlemen, a practice I cannot yet. come into. Bated in the Woods ab' one o'clock & eat some Bisket & Cheese but could get no good Water any where on the Road; the Publick Road running within a Mile & less of the Sea-Side so that the water is Brackish.

There are Trees Marked or Posts sett up with the Distance to any publick Place Every Mile which is Convenient to Travellers as the Road is very lonesome, the People's Houses being Out of sight from the Road. Came about 3 o'clock to Alexand' Stoakleys, a private House, where We dined & bated Our Horses, but paid

her for it, & afterwds came in the Evening ab* 7 o'clock to Accomack Court House.

Saw on the Road a Handsome new Church called Asscowaumin built with Brick, 75 feet front & ab' 50 Deep. Have not seen a Wheat Field since I left Dover & very little Tobacco.

Lodged this night at One Bridget Lewis, abt. of a mile from the Court House & had good Entertain't

The Land still continues the Same, being a thin Sandy soil. They have a miserable small breed of Cattle & worse Horses, & Very few sheep.

8 mth. I Sett out this Morning after breakfasting on Tea, carryed some Oats with us & ab' 11 o'clock bated our horses in the woods, stoped again about 2 at a man's house, on the Road at one Smith's, expecting to buy some corn for our Horses, but he being of a Virginia Disposition, would take nothing for them, altho' very poor, & very Drunk, but very generous. Came ab* four o'clock to Northampton, a small Town with ab 8 or 9 Houses, & a Court House & Prison, where we dined at on peaches having eaten nothing since sun-rise. Were very well Entertained, and came ab' 7 o'clock to. Burton's, who keeps the Ferry at Cherrystones, a private House, where we lodged very comfortably.

October the Second Day. This morning ab* 10 o'clock after Breakfasting on Fryed Oysters & Cold Roast Beef, & afterwards on Coffee, a thing common in this Country, we ship'd Our Horses & self on board a Small Sloop (having a fair wind but rather too much of it), to cross the Bay, but had rough Weather, the sea running high, was very sick but could not vomit, Coz" Jemmy having the Advantage of me in that Point & Came ab' 8 o'clock to the Mouth of Nansemund River.

Here the Wind & Tide failed us so yt We Were obliged to leave Our Horses on board the Sloop, & row in a Boat to Town where we got ab' 9 o'clock to one Cooper's to Nansemund, a small town wth only 3 families in it-N B.

There is at the Mouth of James River a Fort near Hampton Town.

Saw many Vessels at James River, two of which were Men of War of 40 Guns Vizt. the Mermaid, & the Fowey that convoyed the Fleet from England, but the Mermaid came from Cape Breton, spoke with a schooner bound to Antigua.

October the third Day. Arose this morning ab' 7 o'clock & got a Flat to get our Horses ashoar, there being no other conveniency, being obliged to hoist them both in and out with Tackles. Saw a Large ship come up, one Capt. Huey, a Letter of Marque Man, who saluted the Place with 9 Guns. After Breakfasting on Tea & Chocolate & Shaving & shifting, being the first time since we sett out & Writing to my Wife, we sett out again on our Journey intending to go to a meeting ab' 10 miles off, but were disappointed by the false information of one Dr. Melton, a Fr'd, who told us that it began at 12 o'clock, instead of 10; mett Edmond Jordan ab' a half mile short of the Meeting, to whom we delivered 10 of ye printed London Epistles & also the other with Sundry Letters from Friends in Philadelphia, after some small Conversation parted & Came to a pretty Little trading Town of about 60 or 70 Houses, called Suffolk, ab't. half a Mile out of the Road, & 15 from Nansemund, where there was a handsome dinner on the Table at the House of One partly on the Acc' of a great number of people gathered there at the sale of a parcell of choice English Goods by Vandue, belonging to one Theophilious Pugh, a man of the greatest Note in these parts, but now in all appearance intirely broke. There we dined heartily, & had Good English Beer & good Wine, as also English Bread, being the second time we have eat any since we left Pennsylvania.

The vile Practice of giving Children, as well those of all other ages, Rum in a morning as soon as they rise, continues here. I saw a child of ab' 3 years old drink a

common Glass of raw Rum, & the Parents encouraged it reckoning it wholesome.

The Land here is much better than on the Eastern Shore, but inclines still to a sand, & is much intermixed with Oak, Pines, Holly & Spruce, but the straitest & tallest & largest I ever saw.

8 br 3d. The Cattle are also here much better & in short everything beside.

Sett out from Suffolk Town after dining & chatting a little with Geo. Gordon, of our F" & Constantine Hughes by whom I sent the Letter I wrote at Nansemund, and also after some short attendance at the Vandue, where Goods were sold 25 pr C under the first St'g cost, & came ab 6 o'clock to the Widow Newby's ab' 8 miles from Suffolk, where we were kindly entertained, & lodged well, they having I think 8 or 9 Spare Beds. It is a Friends. House on the Boarders of Virginia & North Carolina. The people here are Very kind to Strangers & Travellers.

4th Day.-Arose this morning about sunrise & after breakfasting on Chocolate &c. sett out again on our Journey, Stop'd about 14 miles distance & bought some Corn for our Horses at a private House & bated about 10. After riding ab' 10 miles more, turned in at a private house (one Isaac Speights), in ord' to get some Water for our Horses, for we came across none this day, there being very few Runs, & the extraordinary long dry season they have had in these parts, has dried up all their Swamps, so that their Cattle &c, are almost starving. There we got some Water and blades, & the man was so kind as to get us some Beef steaks for Dinner (Breakfast he called it), and after that some Coffee, and after resting about an hour & half sett out again, stope'd ab' 10 miles distance & bought some more Corn for our Horses, but none of them would eat but mine, the Mare beginning to fail & came ab* 7 in the evening to Samuel Newby's, where we were recommended by the Widow we lodged at last night, & were kindly entertained. We came this road which is

15 miles out of our way on purpose to reach the Yearly Meeting for N' Carolina held at Pequimmins.

There seems to be very good Land for Grass but the people have no notion of that part of Farming, their Chief Dependance being on Indian Corn, Hogs, & Tar, but might raise what number of Cattle they pleased; the Woods being over run with Good Grass & what Cattle they do raise, they have little or no trouble with as they turn them in the Woods to shift for themselves. I told them the Advantage y would attend it by Exportation of Beef, Butter & Cheese, but they seem to Chuse their Old way as being less trouble.

5th Day. Came this morning after Breakfast across Pequimmins river, (which is scarce 50 yards wide where we cros'd it, but about a mile further down a full mile wide), in Company with Sam" Newby to the Meeting House where the Meeting of Ministers were then sitting & delvd the Epistles to Zachariah Nixon who carried them into y Meeting & the Written Epistle to ye Meeting from London was read & in an hour more the Meeting broke up, when we delv'd sundrie Letters to Stephen Scott, & Daniel Saint. Here we with Betty Pleasant's (R. Jordan's sister) a very agreeable Woman who was Glad to see us, being acquainted with Coz Jemmy, immediately went to Meeting in Company with many other Frd', which was about as large as our First Day Morning Meeting, when 5 men & as many Women were concerned to speak, & Betty Pleasant's in Prayer.

The People here seem to be sober solid & grave, & I think very examplary in their Lifes & Conversation as far as I Could observe & I think I may say we had a very good meeting. After meeting went to Zachariah Nixon's ab mile from the House were we dined very plentifully, in Co, of ab 60 or 70 others. Friends here are very open hearted & kind to one another.

Spent the afternoon very agreeably with Z. Nixon, Stephen Scott, & several others but mostly with B.