When Dr. Witherspoon visited Scotland in the year 1785, he had
frequent conversations with Mrs. Graham on the subject of her removal
to America. She gave him at this time some reason to calculate on her
going thither as soon as her children should have completed the course
of education she had proposed for them. She had entertained a strong
partiality for America ever since her former residence there, and had
indulged a secret expectation of returning. It was her opinion, and
that of many pious people, that America was the country where the
church of Christ would preeminently flourish. She was therefore
desirous to leave her offspring there.

After some correspondence with Dr. Witherspoon, and consultation
with pious friends, her plan received the approbation of the latter;
and having had an invitation from many respectable characters in the
city of New York, with assurances of patronage and support, she
arranged her affairs for quitting Edinburgh. The Algerines being then
at war with the United States, her friends insisted on her chartering
a small British vessel to carry herself and family to the port of New
York. This increased her expenses; but Providence, in faithfulness and
mercy, sent her at this time a remittance from Dr. Henderson, the
young friend of Dr. Graham, who succeeded him as surgeon of the
regiment; and a legacy of two hundred pounds bequeathed her by Lady
Glenorchy, as a mark of her regard, was now of great use to her.

Thus in the month of July, 1789, Mrs. Graham once more prepared
_to go into a land which the Lord seemed to tell her of_.

The two following extracts from her private journal, indicate the