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been settled in Philadelphia, or set foot in it, rather, 

 with my family, I will take a look at my books, and 

 add to this Journal what have been the expenses of my 

 family i'or this one year, from the time of landing to 

 this day, inclusive. 



'' Dolls. Cents. 



House-rent tiOO O 



Fuel . • 137 



Schooling (at day-schools) for my 

 children viz.; for Thomas, 14 doIIs. 



years of age 40 



Peter and John, ages of 12 and 10 48 



Sarah, 6 years of age 18 — 106 



Boarding of all my family at Mrs. An- 

 thony's Hotel for about a week, on our 



arrival 80 



Expenses of house-keeping (my family 

 fourteen in number, including two ser- 

 vants) with every other out-going not 

 enumerated above, travelling inci- 

 dents, two newspapers a day, &c. &c. 2076 66 



Taxes, not a cent 



Priest, not a cent 



Total 2999 66 



568, " What! nothing to the Parson !" some of my 

 old neighbours will exclaim. No : not a single stiver. 

 The Quakers manage their affairs without Parsons, and 

 I believe they are as good and as happy a people as 

 any religious denomination who are aided and assisted 

 by a Priest. I do not suppose that the Quakers will 

 admit me into their Society ; but, in this free country 

 I can form a new society, if I choose, and, if I do, it 

 certainly shall be a Society having a Chairman in 

 place of a Parson, and the assemblage shall discuss 

 the subject of their meeting themselves. Why should 

 there not be as much knowledge and wisdom and com- 

 mon sense, in the heads of a whole congregation, as in 

 the head of a Parson I Ah, but then there are the 

 profits arising from the trade ! Some of this holy Or- 

 der in England receive upwards of 40,000 dollars per 



