Morris, Margaret Hill (1737-1816) Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister.
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1836.
First edition, one of 50 copies printed; large quarto, bound in full modern russet sheepskin with marbled paper endleaves and title tooled in gilt to front board; 11⅜ x 9 in.
Margaret Hill was born in Maryland and raised as a Quaker. When the Revolutionary War landed on her doorstep, she was a widowed mother of four living in Burlington, New Jersey. She ran a healing practice, offering locals medical remedies and advice for their ailments. As a pacificist, she observed the Battle of Trenton and other local skirmishes and manuevers, duly noting them in her diary. The original is held at Haverford College. It was only reprinted in this very limited 1836 edition and again, by her grandson, in 1854.
