[1776] -ters before I
engaged to Serve, &
found that the Capt &
his other Off-
-icers had the Character of civil
& agreable Gentlemen,
& upon my
further acquaintance with them
I found their Good Characters
to Surpass my expectations--
4th of April [1776] we
arrived at
Providence
the Roads being bad on Act of and the Rai-
ny Weather prevented our arriving
Sooner.. nothing very material hap=
-pened during our March. excepting
on the road I Saw Mrs. Atwood
& Miss
R. Sears & Breakfasted with them at
Mr. Atwoods House in
I found the Town of
Providence
very agreably Scituated on it each
Side of a River. Several very ele-
-gant Buildings in perticular the
Baptist Meeting House & the College
a little east of the Town, we tarri-
-ed here but one Night & the next
Day Sat out for
Norwich in
Con-
-necticut. At
Providence I saw
building two neat Frigates the