of M.D. would not preserve me from being drafted as a soldier while my six children were thrown upon the care of a mother already showing symptoms of the consumption which afterward terminated her life. I was fortunate enough in finding a substitute in a short time. I returned to my pursuits and was employed by the corporation to engrave the small money bills issued during the scarcity of specie.
   Constant employment has caused time to slip away, till I find myself in my seventy-third year. I have raised and supported a large family under rather discouraging circumstances, and what comes next is in the book of fate.

A.A.

 
 
 
 
 

APPENDIX B.

EXTRACTS

FROM THE

DIARY OF ALEXANDER ANDERSON
FOR 

1795-1798.

(The NOTES, for the most part, are by W. W. Pasko, of the New York “Typothetae.”)