daughters were there.—Excellent sweetmeats were handed round after tea and had it not been for the noise of the children, and the impertinence of a young goat who made a forcible entry into th eroom to the great terror of the ladies, the time might be said to be very agreeably spent.
   March 19th. Engrav’d a Quadrant for Ad. Hicks & receiv’d 1/. Undertook to engrave 9 copper-plates for Mr. Rivington* at 40/ each, for a book of Fairy Tales. Stopp’d in at a book auction for a few minutes. Got home about 9 & read Beattie’s Elements.
  20th. Went to Myer’s and bespoke the plates for Rivington’s work, to do two on each plate. Saw Cressin at Jones’s and receiv’d 4 Dollars. Mr. Mabie invited my brother to be a spectator at the Dancing School this evening. I read in Bell and beatie. Got a piece solder’d in Cressin’s last cut, and in the evening gave Coco a new face, his master being highly displeas’d with the other. Theo. Nixon drank tea at the Dr’s.

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* James Rivington, who previous to the Revolutionary War published Rivington’s New York Gazetteer, or the Connecticut, New Jersey, Hudson River, and Quebec Weekly Advertiser, but was now simply a bookseller and stationer, at 156 Pearl street. He was the grandson of Charles Rivington, the eminent publisher, and the son of Charles Rivington, a printer and publisher.