journal, except where the writing makes it manifest. So much for
this matter.

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NOTES.

NOTE 1.

Aunt Deming was Sarah, the oldest child of John Winslow and Sarah
Peirce, and therefore sister of Joshua Winslow, Anna Green Winslow's
father. She was born August 2, 1722, died March 10, 1788. She
married John West, and after his death married, on February 27,
1752, John Deming. He was a respectable and intelligent Boston
citizen, but not a wealthy man. He was an ensign in the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery in 1771, and a deacon of the Old South Church in
1769, both of which offices were patents of nobility in provincial
Boston. They lived in Central Court, leading out of Washington
Street, just south of Summer Street. Aunt Deming eked out a limited
income in a manner dear to Boston gentlewomen in those and in later
days; she took young ladies to board while they attended Boston
schools. Advertisements in colonial newspapers of "Board and
half-board for young ladies" were not rare, and many good old New
England names are seen in these advertisements. Aunt Deming was a
woman of much judgment, as is shown in the pages of this diary; of
much power of graphic description, as is proved by a short journal
written for her niece, Sally Coverly, and letters of hers which are
still preserved. She died childless.

NOTE 2.

Cumberland was the home in Nova Scotia of Anna Green Winslow's
parents, where her father held the position of commissary to the
British regiments stationed there. George Green, Anna's uncle,
writing to Joseph Green, at Paramaribo, on July 23, 1770, said: "Mr.
Winslow & wife still remain at Cumberland, have one son & one
daughter, the last now at Boston for schooling, &c." So, at the date
of the first entry in the diary, Anna had been in Boston probably
about a year and a half.

NOTE 3.

Anna Green Winslow had doubtless heard much talk about this Rev.
John Bacon, the new minister at the Old South Church, for much had
been said about him in the weekly press: whether he should have an
ordination dinner or not, and he did not; accounts of his
ordination; and then notice of the sale of his sermons in the
_Boston Gazette_.

All Mr. Bacon's parishioners did not share Anna's liking for him; he
found himself at the Old South in sorely troubled waters. He made a
most unpropitious and