1780 June 15 (Thursday). No certain news yet that Charlestown, South Carolina, is taken, but reasons to fear it is, are greatly increased. Sad accounts from the West on Mohawk River. May it please God to extend Pity and Compassion to them, as their case may be and fit us in these parts, for His Sovereign Will! Finish reading Courtney Melmoth’s Sublime and beautiful of Scripture.