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William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
— for there appears, ample Room for us. All ———— And Which Closes My Sentimental Narrative for the Present, I have Done……
When Sarah rose Again, and Madam Denn With her and Said, "Now Let us, Attend to Getting Supper,, For, as We have plenty of Provisions, Get in Our Saddle-bags, And there appears a Sufficiency of New Bread Baked in the Pan… As the Water Boils, Sarah Can at-tend to geting Coffee, While I may Spread On Her Table Our Little Store of Provisions, And they Acted Accordingly — Among Which, Elizabeth presented Bread, Choice Ham, Cured & Dryed Beef tongue & Cheese, With Her Small Canister of Choice Tea, Sugar, & Chocolate, Together, With Her Roll of Phials Of Medicinal Cordials And to Cap All, Was Brought Forward, Her set of Tea Plate, with a Set of Small Delicate China teacups & Saucers; With Which, Sarah & Elizabeth, took their parting Meal in New York — And When all Was got in Readiness & Spread in Due Order Upon the Slab Table Sarah, Bethought Herself, of the Remains of Her Dinner, That is, the Remains of Their Green Pottage Left On the Log-table, she supposed for Her, When she put all together in a Wooden Bowl, it Looked good she Smelt & tasted of it, & it Was good, & Was the best Meal, & Victuals, she had eaten, Since Leaving N. York; For, Before this, she felt, a trembling, fainting forboding Hovering round Her Heart… As if she must, unavoidably and irrecoverably Sink down… And she thought, no matter How soon — But, When she had eaten of the Bacon & greens and tasted of a Potato, She felt a Sensible Alteration, in her Bodily System, for the Better, And had Not this Provi-dential Meal, have taken place, it might, perhaps, been Out of my Power, Thus, to have Received You this even-ing; Upon Which, she Reached her hand to the Bowl as It stood on the Remote part of the Table, Covered With Another Wooden Dish, When C. Denn Saw it, he said It Looked good, & Carved up the Bacon and Said Elizabeth, We must tast, of Sarah new invented Cookery —
— here in the woods
- Was, nor Ever Will be, more Fidelity, and a more Christian Feeling, of Sympathy & Charity… in So Motely a Group of People… It is a Question; Whether there Ever Was, in Wawayanda, or Ever Will be, in the Civilized Goshen of Wawayanda, a purer Senti-ment of Christian, fidelity, Sympathy & Charity, Exprest by Uniform Action… And Realized, With Unaffected Joy and Sorrow, Exhibited, in This Providential Wigwam of One Days Work… this evening And Where, An Offering of Pure Christian Devotion is Displayed, Without Hypocrisy And Religion Without Priest-craft……
Thus You have Our Journal …… to the Close of Our in meeting Journey With You,
"Who follows Nature's tracks,
Will keep to Reason's Road,
Good sense, through Life Extracts,
To reach, the Blest Abode……"
...As prudent instinct & practice wisdom...
And now Our Dear girl, Our Adopted Child, Be it Remembered, That Sarah Wells, has Obtained the Laurel… That is, The Name, of Being the first Civilized White Woman, Who Set foot on Goshen Ground, and Elizabeth Denn the Next & Within twenty four hours of Each other… as the first improving Settlers of Wawayanda Yet it Was, through the Fidelity of Sarah, to & for us; And the faithful Concern of the Company, Concentrated Around Her, which has Accom-plished, this Providential Habitation for us, This Evening; — And Now my faithful friends, the Natives of the Soil & Woods; & Her settlers Here is Your Blankets, Which We have brought here this Evening On Horse-back; there is One, for Each of You, take them, as An Acknowledgement from me, For the fidelity of Your faithful Services… And After Supper… & When Our Conversation… in This Association, of Truly Christian Sentiments, With Our "Neighbour as Ourselves" Shall Seemly Lag… And We may feel inclined to Repose You Will, and Each of You Will, take A Blanket, & in Your Own Way, make Your Abode With Us, for the Night And in this Spacious Wigwam, the Work of Your Own hands, for there — appears ample
