23rd and first of the week--

My mind
when favour'd to get into the quiet has
enjoy'd a comfortable state of tranquility;
but thro’ sundry requests of the natives
also as the white people in passing up &
down this river make this house a stoping
place -and many travelers latterly calling
some being detain'd- has occaisoned us
some difficulty in sitting quietly down
in our religious opportunities. Oh that
we may be enabled thro’ all difficulties to
dwell near that fountain, from whence
preservation and heavenly instruction
flows

1 mo 29

- From her Diary –- forward 9 leaves:

2 Month 22nd To her sister MS

. When I wrote
to father I mentioned that we expected
to build a house neart this, for a school
house which is now accomplished, and
altho’ the weather much of the time since
has been stormy and the river difficult
to cross, yet we have not been unimploy'd.

As soap making is a novel to most