System of Education on the principles of Moral Chemistry was
sketch’d out.—The Company was augmented by the arrival of Johnson Butler
and Mr. Nixon.—The Drs departed & Mr. Watson, Merchant Tailor, came
in—made a short stay.—
3rd. Morning—finished one of Durell’s* wooden ** cuts—began
to repair one of Hicks’s compass plates. –Fore-noon, spent chiefly in the
Dr’s shop—except taking a walk to the Ship-yards to see the Keel of the
Frigate.—About 3 we sat down to dinner, about 12 in number.—I made myself
pretty active in helping the company but was aware how I help’d myself
to mince pie again.—Ran home before dark. I engrav’d a few strokes.—Benj.
Tanner*** call’d to know my price for the cuts of the Primer—I return’d
to tea—play’d a few tunes on the Violin—came home with Mamma before 8.
17th. Spent 6d for Raisins.—Return’d Rollin and
· *William Durell, who began with toy books, but
had now attained to much greater thngs. He continued in business for a
long time, being in 1795 at 208 Pearl street. He was a printer and stationer,
as well as a bookseller.
· ** The use of boxwood had been discovered by
Anderson the previous year, and some pieces were procured with great difficulty
for his experiments. Later, boxwood was regularly imported. It is to be
noted that he invariably says “wooden” cuts instead of the modern usage,
“wood cuts.”
· *** Benjamin Tanner, an engraver of 26 Frankfort
street.
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got Nettleton on Virtue from Fellows’s.—Dr. Davidson proposes
that I should take a trip with him to St. Vincent’s, next sprint.—My Mother
is utterly averse to this scheme.—Evening.—At 7, according to invitation,
I went to Dr. Smith’s, where I found eleven others who attend his Lectures.
After spending some time in sociable discourse, we were ask’d into another
room where an elegant supper was provided.—I evaded drinking more than
a glass of wine & ate but little.—Past 11 before I got home.
28th. I sat up till 12 last night.—My Brother* came home
about 1.—I attended Chem. Lecture.—Spent 5d for figs & paid 3d due
to Seaman’s.—Mrs. Settersfield was at breakfast with us & gave information
of Aunt Carpender’s ** ill state of health, from the continuance of a lingering
Dysentery.—I came home at 12, got ready some of Mr. Sacket’s remedy (Butternut
bark and Jerusalem Oak) and took over to her together with a bottle of
wine—gave Kate directions for preparing the medicine—ate some Supon***
& Milk, and fill’d my pockets with
· *His brother was a law student.
· **Mrs. Carpender recovered, her name appearing
in the first Brooklyn Directory, which was published in 1796. She was a
widow.
· ***Suppaan—the flour of maize, made up into
a pudding by boiling, and then eaten with milk, sugar or molasses.
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