Margaret Morris was a prolific writer. Between 1751 and 1774 she kept a private diary in which she recorded the inspirational messages of a devout Christian woman. She was also an assiduous correspondent and exchanged many letters with family members, especially her sister Milcah Martha (often called Patty) and her granddaughter Margaret Morris Collins. These letters deal with a range of topics including domesticity and suffering, faith and female conduct. Her most significant work is her Revolutionary War diary, written to keep her youngest sister, Milcah Martha, informed about events in Burlington, New Jersey. The journal begins on 6 December 1776, when Sir William Howe's British troops arrived in New Brunswick, New Jersey, about thirty-five miles north of her home, and ends at the time of the American victory over Howe in June 1778. It provides a vivid, and often amusing and satirical, commentary on the fate of noncombatants in Burlington, a town...