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& surrounded by a number of good families.
Supped with a New York
gentleman elegantly & sociably.

Thursday.
Set out early for Providence --- Dined
at Coventry, where [i?] rested 4 or 5 hours.
The tavern-[?] said he never remembered
such fine crops of all kind,
as this year. [?] [?] had never
suffered for rain at any one time.
We arrived at Milford about [?]
which was about 37 miles from Wethersfield.
Found Mr. Mesinger better
than when I used to call upon him.
He told me several families had returned
to that town from Susquehanna,
and some in [?] [distress?];
uncertain whether their head was
alive or not. We could not hear
any authentic particular [respecting?]
an expedition to Rhode-Island, which
for some time had appeared to be
in contemplation, under {General} Sullivan.
We found, however, that two brigades of
the continental army was gone; that