A record of daily occurrence, with many features of a commonplace book, for this contains prescriptions, notes of questions asked candidates for the Lutheran ministry, the plan of a barn, etc. There is also a biographical account of Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787), Henry Muhlenberg's (Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg) father. Henry Muhlenberg was a Lutheran clergyman and botanist. He resided in Philadelphia and then Trappe during the American Revolution.; American Philosophical Society