Robert Goodbody Journal

how dreams bring the features and persons of those long dead into recollection. Often have I on dreaming of her, has her person so renewed in my memory that when I awoke I felt as if I had just seen her.

1788. This year john and Mary Helton removed to Bristol from Mountmellick, having an auction before they went. They lived in the house where Anthony Pim since lives, and Jonathan went to live in after his son James marriage. John Helton and Johnathan Pim were partners in the tanning business. My parents had a great regard for John and Mary Helton and were sorry to lose them as neighbours when they went to England. They had two sons, John and William, the latter died, I think, of the smallpox very soon after they left Mountmellick, a boy of a very promising disposition. The other lived to grow up, and married Anne Alexander. He died a few years later since.

I may mention that I recollect seeing John Wesley coming out of the Methodist meeting in Mountmellick, it might be in 1789. His picture often reminds me of his person.

In the spring of 1789 my dear Grandmother broke up house, and her auction which lasted more than a week. She had a well finished house, and very neat; it was then, I think, the decentest, or best house among friends in Mountmellick. She and my three and Alice Simmons came to lodge at my father's, he having previously raised the back part of his house to accommodate them. They paid well for their accommodation, and my Aunte done much in the house, also making clothes for us all. My Grandmother was a tall, and lusty, made much like my Aunt Margaret. My Aunt Alice was a good Book-keeper, and had articles in the shop to sell on her own account. She was generally

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