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1775. Septr. 24. Sunday. -

[1775-09-24]
Dyer is very sanguine that the 2 ...

1775. Septr. 25. Monday.

Docno: DJA02d239

Author: JA
Date: 1775-09-25
Rode out of Town and dined with Mr. Macpherson. He has the most elegant Seat in Pensilvania, a clever Scotch Wife and two pretty daughters. His Seat is on the Banks of Schuylkill.1
He has been Nine Times wounded in Battle. An old Sea Commander, made a Fortune by Privateering. An Arm twice shot off, shot thro the Leg. &c—He renews his Proposals of taking or burning Ships.
Spent the Evening with Lynch at the City Tavern. He thinks the Row Gallies and Vesseau de Frize inadequate to the Expence.2
 
1. In what is now Fairmount Park. See “Mount Pleasant and the Macphersons,” in Thomas A. Glenn, Some Colonial Mansions and Those Who Lived in Them, 2d ser., Phila., 1900, p. 445–483
 
2. These were defenses of Philadelphia on the Delaware River; see entry of 28 Sept. and note, below.
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