she had two Charming Eyes, full of Fire and Rolling; EyeBrows Black and well turn'd, with a Beautiful head of Hair, Coal Black which she wore a Wigg, waving in wanting curling Ringletts in her Neck; She was a Lady of a great Deal of Wit, Join'd to a Good Understanding, full of Spirits, and of a Humour exceeding Jocose and Agreeable. We took our leave and came away well satisfy'd with the Ladies' Company; at 8 O'Clock went to hear a Consert of Musick; the Performers was some Town's Gentlemen, and did Us the Honour of an Invitation, we staid till past 11, and I left the Company to go Home to my Lodgings; In my way, I was met by a Woman tollerably well dress'd, and seem'd a good likely Person to Appearance, but very Much in Liquor; I shoud not have observ'd her; but about twenty yards before I came up to her, she made a full stop, and the Moon Shining Bright I coud well Observe her; She on my coming up, look'd me right in the Face, which caused me to make a Stop; She ask'd me where I was going, I answered Home; on this I had Curiosity enough to turn her round to have a better view; on which I made the Discovery of her being in a Condition, which of all others, least becomes the Sex.

It was after 12 before I went to bed and in my Sleep (I thought so much of this Drunken Woman) that I Drearn'd of Her all the Night.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, June the 6th.

This Morning I Rose by 6 O'clock, when I went to the Comm'rs' Lodgings, where I was taken up most of the Day in some Writtings concerning the Indian Treaty, at 1 O'clock the Comm'rs, &c. went to Dine with his Honour the Governor, from thence returned to their Lodgings: In the afternoon, as I was writting I heard two Ladies Discoursing in a Room off that wherein I was, on which I sent a Petition begging the Favour of a Song, which they had the Goodness to hear, and Consented to it, to my no small Satisfaction; Sup'd with the Commissioners, and at 10 O'clock went home to my Room.

PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, June the 7th.

This being the day the Post to the Southward setts of I got up pretty early and wrote Several Letters for Virginia and Annapolis; after Breakfast I went to the Commissioners where I Copied some letters, among which, the following for the Governor of Virginia.

To The Hon'ble William Gooch, Esq., Governor of Virginia.

May it Please your Honour.

We are yet uncertain when the Indians will be at Lancaster, the last account of them is in a Letter of the 2nd from Conrad Weiser, in which he writes Secretary Peters: that the several Deputies were to set out the 18th of May; that Six Men the Deputies of the Oneidoes were arriv'd the 30th of last Month, that the Tuscororoes were not far behind, but no account of the other four Nations. The Governor here Expects they will all be at the Place, the last of the Week, and we shall hence by Monday at furthest; we wish it may be so. We Inclose a Copy of the Speech which this Governor intends to make, he communicated it to us, as we have done what we have to say at the first Conference, which he approves of.

We forwarded your letter to the Governor of New York, last Post, No Answer is come yet, their Interpreter, has been with the Indians, to Invite them to a Treaty at Albany in this Month, and to receive a Present, these Courtships from the several Colonies, and the French Warr will make the Indians rise in their Demands: we intend to abate their Pride, by showing them that they have no Title; that by the last Treaty they solemnly Engage not to pass the River Cohongorootan, and so what is given is matter of Favour rather a Present than a Payment.

These Assemblies have other Notions of the usefulness of these Indians, than the Virginia Assembly have, their Sense of that, is contained in that part of the Governor's Speech Addressed to the Commissioners; we cannot Compliment our own Country with their being in the Right.

Ample Provisions are made by this Governor for us all at the Place of Treaty, which we expect will be at an Equal Expense. Conrad Weiser has been fourteen days without eating as he writes, and is so weak that he will not (If he Recovers be able to Attend, and as all our Speech Depends on him, and as we are made to believe, all our Success. The Governor here has sent him the Advice of a Physician from hence with Medicines, it is doubted if he will take them, having been

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always against taking of Physic; he has been it seems brought in a Sect Called Dumplers,' a peculiar sort of Enthusiasts; the Daughters of the Sect are kept together in what they call a Nunnery, under the Care of Men. When they arrive at Maturity they are at Liberty to Marry: Something has happened lately in that Chaste Society, that has Occasioned Conrad to Remove his Daughter, and perhaps it may have affected him so, as to bring on this long illness: We thought that it would not be uninteresting to you to leave the Road of Business, and to touch a little on Particulars, relating to this useful man. Colonel Patton has been as Zelelous in behalf His Country on the Frontiers, that he has taken a long Journey hither, and almost Convinced Governor Thomas, that the Indians were the Aggressors in the Skirmish on our Frontiers, he left this place yesterday, and stays at Lancaster until the Treaty begins, at least.

There is to be very soon Eight Privateers belonging to this Town, some of force, and fine Vessels, and in the Reputation of these depends much of the Security at present from a French Invasion. The Indians in the French Intr. have attack'd the People on the borders of New England, next to the New York Government, this account we saw in a letter from a Person of Credit at Boston to Governor Thomas, Warr is not Proclaim'd here yet, the Governor waits for the King's Commands. Our last was the 28th last Month from this Place; We Intreat your Honour to believe Us,

With perfect Respect,

Your Most Obedient & Most Humble Servants,
THOMAS LEE,
W. BEVERLEY.

A little before 1 of the Clock in Company with the Commissioners and their Levee, I went to Mr. William Logan's Merchant, where with his Honour the Governor and Mr.

1 In 1709, the Tunkards from Germany and Holland emigrated to Penn. and settled first at Germantown. They were well educated and fine Latinists -the young people of the neighborhood were sent to them to be perfected in this language. Alex. Mack was their principal leader. Their converts assumed new names, such as, Onesimus, Friedsam, &c.- Watson, i. pp. 23, 258. An account of the Dunkers or Seventh Day German Baptists, by Dr. William M. Fahnestock, will be found in the History of the Religious Denominations of the United States, by I. Daniel Rupp.

2 Vide p. 18.

3 William Logan, eldest son of James Logan. He was educated in England. He followed commerce as a profession until the death of his father, when he moved to Stenton and devoted himself to agriculture. He was a

Secretary Peters, and some others, we Din'd; after Dinner and a Cheerfull Glass, the Commissioners Return'd to their Lodgings, and I went and paid a Visit to Capt. William Blair where I staid about two hours: In the Evening with Mr. Littlepage I went a second time to see the Agreeable Jewess; while we was there, came an Acquaintance of Miss Levey's to Return a Visit Miss Molly Stamper1 Daughter of a very Considerable Merchant in the City: The Tea Table was set, and while we were Sipping the Warm Water we had some Agreeable Discourse, such as is Commonly brought up on such Occasions. After this was over Littlepage took leave, but I lik'd the Company of the two Fair Ones to Depart so soon, to be short I staid till after 9 at Night, In which time I got Entirely Acquainted with the Female Visitant, and waited on her Home, when she was so Condescending as to Promise me the Pleasure of her Company the Night following at the same Place, on seeing her to her Father's Door, I took leave and return'd to my Room very much Satisfied with this Interview of a Young Lady every way so Agreeable, and with a Design to Cultivate an Acquaintance which Promis'd so much Pleasure and Satisfaction.

member of the Provincial Council, and like his father a friend to the Indians. He received them cordially at his place and educated many at his own expense. He travelled much in this country, and his Journal from Philadelphia to Georgia is still preserved. He executed the conveyance of the Loganian Library to the city of Philadelphia.- Watson's Annals of Phila., vol. i. p. 594.

Mary Stamper was the eldest daughter of John and Hannah Stamper. She was baptized at Christ Church June 8, 1729, aged three weeks, and was therefore just fifteen when our diarist found her so admirable. Her father was a successful merchant in Philadelphia, and in 1759 was chosen Mayor. She married Sept. 19, 1745, William Bingham. Her second son, William Bingham, U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania 1795-1801, married Miss Willing, whose great beauty combined with her husband's wealth and position made her the leader of Philadelphia society, and one of the most brilliant orna ments of the "Republican Court." It is perhaps remarkable that the younger Mrs. Bingham was a grandmother when but thirty-six years of age, her grandson, William Bingham Baring, afterwards 2d Baron Ashburton, was born in June, 1799. and she in August, 1764. The second husband of Mary Stamper was Michael Morgan O'Brien.

(To be continued.)

COLONEL THOMAS WHITE, OF MARYLAND.

BY WILLIAM WHITE WILTBANK.

Read by him at the meeting of the descendants of Colonel White at Sophia's Dairy, Maryland, June 7, 1877.

Thomas White was born in London, in 1704, and was the son of William White and Elizabeth Leigh, whose portraits are familiar to us in the originals of Sir Godfrey Kneller, now in the family. His father at one time possessed a considerable patrimony; but having, it would seem, parted with a large portion of it, died in 1708, at an early age, and left a widow and six children, the fifth of whom was our ancestor, then four years old.1

We know but little of the life of this fatherless family, and there is now no possibility, in the lapse of time, of acquiring knowledge of the details of their domestic history, beyond which they had none; for, as to the girls, of whom there were three, they could not, and the two boys did not, find employment in the public service of Great Britain, and thus there was left of them no trace in the state offices. In 1720, at the age of sixteen, Thomas sailed for Maryland, and there is reason to think that he was of the retinue of Charles Calvert, the cousin of Lord Baltimore, who certainly reached the new world in that year, with a large company of gentlemen, to succeed Mr. Hart as governor of the province. It is as little doubtful that a voyage like this was largely advertised in placards in the city, and through the shipping merchants and the agents of the Proprietary, to secure people for the colony; and was thus brought by friends, or directly, to the boy's mind; the change in the office of ruler being made the occa

In 1704 the English took Gibraltar, Queen Anne had just begun her reign, and Louis XIV. was still King of France.

* He had been put to a grammar school, eighteen miles from London, at St. Alban's