Dr. Benjamin Bullivant of Boston is not a famous figure in colonial history or literature. In his own time he deserved well of his countrymen as a physician, as a patriot, and as a churchman. In the year 1686 he was made Attorney General of Massachusetts, and became in the same year the first Senior Warden of King's Chapel. But he deserves well of posterity for an unusually objective and detailed diary that he wrote in 1697 of a journey he took from Boston to Newport, New York, Burlington, Philadelphia, and New Castle, and return. This manuscript, recently published for the first time,1 is all of it worth reading* It gives a picture of life, travel, men, and manners at the time and places covered. It shows an interest in the local government, the military posture, the religious groups, the public buildings, etc., of a series of cities in the colonies. Its references to the Quakers are of sufficient value to be separately extracted for the readers of Quaker History. On June 7, 1697, Dr. Bullivant took horse from Boston. Next day, after crossing the ferry from Bristol to Rhode Island, he rode on about four miles to a Quaker's farm where I was exceedingly well accommodated gratis, with meat, drink, lodging, and horsemeat. Seven miles further on, he entered the chief town of the island, named Newport, where he remained from the 9th to the 14th of June. This was the time of what is now called New England Yearly Meeting. The following are parts of his description: