...with all the gentlemen from Virginia, Dr. Shippen, Mr. Tilghman, and many others. We were shown into a grand entry and stair-case, and into an elegant...jellies, sweetmeats of twenty sorts, trifles, whipped sillabubs, floating islands, fools, &c. and then a dessert of fruits, raisins, almonds, pears, peaches....

...Adams, describing the house which he visited in the chief justice's time, said, " We were shown into a grand entry and staircase, and into an elegant and most magnificent chamber, until dinner." The other house which Mr. Willing erected for his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Powell, Mr. Adams...

...of the Province, with all the gentlemen from Virginia, Dr. Shippen, Mr. Tilghman, and many others. About four o'clock we were called down to dinner....jellies, sweetmeats of twenty sorts, trifles, whipped sillabubs, floating islands, fools, etc., and then a dessert of fruits, raisins, almonds, pears, peaches....

...Forenoon & S'. Peters95 in the Afternoon — Din'd at my lodgings a graud entry and staircase, aud iiito an elegant and most magnificent chamber, until dinner....then a dessert of fruits, almonds, pears, peaches. \Viues most excellent and admirable. I drank Madeira at a great rate, and found no inconvenience."...

...and a long, etc." (At the home of Chief Justice Chew.) " About four o'clock we were called to dinner. Turtle and every other thing, flummery, jellies, sweetmeats of twenty sorts, trifles, whipped sillabubs, floating islands, fools, etc., with a dessert of fruits, raisins, almonds, pears, peaches."...

...all prominent men of every American party, had sat at the Chief Justice's table. " We were shown into a grand entry and staircase, and into an elegant and most magnificent chamber until dinner. The furniture was all rich. , . . Wines most excellent and admirable. I drank Madeira at a great rate,...

...into a grand entry and staircase and into an elegant and magnificent chamber until dinner. About 4 o'clock we were called down to dinner. The furniture...every other thing, flummery, jellies, sweetmeats, of 20 sorts, trifles, whipped sillabus, floating islands, fools, &ct., and then a dessert of fruits, raisins,...

...into a grand entry and staircase and into an elegant and magnificent chamber until dinner. About 4 o'clock we were called down to dinner. The furniture...every other thing, flummery, jellies, sweetmeats, of 20 sorts, trifles, whipped sillabubs, floating islands, fools, &ct., and then a dessert of fruits,...

...into a grand entry and staircase and into an elegant and magnificent chamber until dinner. About 4 O'clock we were called down to dinner. The furniture...every other thing, flummery, jellies, sweetmeats, of 20 sorts, trifles, whipped sillabubs, floating islands, fools, etc., & then a dessert of fruits, raisens,...

...porter, beer, etc." He speaks of another dinner at Mr. Chief Justice Chew's house on Third Street: " Turtle and every other thing, flummery, jellies, sweetmeats, of twenty sorts, trifles, whipped sillabubs, floating islands, fools, etc., and then a dessert of fruits, raisins, almonds, pears, peaches,...