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23 resolved to fix his residence in a more retired situation in the country.

Conformably with this plan, he procured a few acres of land, situatesituated [sic] between Germantown and the old York road, about six miles north of Philadelphia, and not far distant from the present village of Mileston. On the rural spot of his choice, he built a cottage, resembling, in its construction, a cave, planted a small orchard, and for utility and ornament, cultivated near the front of his humble dwelling several walnut trees, which remain venerable and living monuments of the place of his first habitation in Pennsylvania.

Having completed his house, he removed to it in 1732, He now adopted habits of the most rigid temperance, self-denial, and frugality, which he ever after observed. He drank nothing but water and milk, and subsisted altogether upon vegetable diet. His clothing was entirely composed of tow fabric, of his own spinning, and of the