21st. I met Mr. Pilmore at Jn. Post’s.—He was displaying his oratory on the subject of Citizenship, and inveighing against the importation of Irish emigrants to the great injury of worthy Americans.
   28th. My Bookstore scheme has cost me about £30.—Whether I shall ever receive my own money for the books is somewhat doubtful. They go off pretty well at my Father’s.
   October 8th. Sunday. Our little servant girl has been displaying her impudence & obstinacy very freely today, inconsequence of which we have resolved to look out for another.
   12th. I had the pleasure to find most of my patients in a thriving way.—I was not so successful in the business of money hunting.—
  I engaged a little girl to live with us—a daughter of Jacob Rhineheart (Public Porter), at 10/ a month.
   22d. Sunday.—Dr. Debow intimated that he expected I would be so obliging as to bail him out of Jail.—I inform’d him of my resolution in that business, and assur’d him that I profess’d no friendship to any person so ardent as to injure myself.—
   26th. This afternoon I went to Dr. Young’s, and drank tea. Was detain’d ‘till near dark before tea was over.—I then hurried off my wife and her sisters, with an expectation of getting in time to the