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mentioned but are too tedeous to mention. Diary of John Han'oiver 8i Six Ruffled Shirts five plain wliite D° One Cheque D" One Blue Cloath Jacket Seven Musline Stocks One Black silk Cravate One pair Ribbed Cotton Stockins f Severall other Ten pair worsted D" Articles besides One new Hat and one D° Wigg. J what are here Five pocket Napkins. two hand Towels two pair Trousers One pair Shoes ; with Pinchback shoe, stock and knee buckles. One trunk, with fine lock and hinges. Saturday, nth. At 9 AM left the school and went a fishing on the River with the Colonel his eldest [Son] and another Gentleman in two Canoes, Mrs. Dangerfield another Lady and the other two boys mett us at Snow Creek in the Chair at 2 pm when we all dined on fish under a tree. Sunday, 12th. This day at Church at Fredericksburgh and at same time settled a Correspondance at Glasgow for getting letters from home, by their being put under cover to Messrs. Anderson and Horsburgh Merch" in D° and the expence charged to Mr. Glassel ' Merch ' in Fred- ericksb? Virginia. Tuesday, 14th. This morning entred to school William Pattie son to John Pattie wright, and Salley Evens daughter to Thomas Evens Planter. This day I wrote my wife a particular Acco', of all my transactions since I wrote her from London 26'. Jan'; last, the Coppy of which I have by me.' Thursday, i6th. This eveng the Colonel told me he hade about 400 Acres of land in wheat and as much in Indian Corn every year and that he comonly exported about 3600 bushels of wheat every year besides serving his own Family. But that he did not expect to have above the one half th'. year owing to a strong frost they had in Aprile last. Freiday, lyth. This day rec:' two pair new Rushia drill britches and two new short Coats of Brown Holland. Munday, 20th. This morning entred to school Philip and Dorothea Edge's Children of Mr Benjaman Edge Planter. Same day Colonel Dangerfield began to cut down his wheat, which they do with a syth. Tuesday, 21st. This day M' Samuel Edge Planter came to me and begged me to take a son of his to school who was both deaf and dum, and I consented to try what I cou'd do with him. 1 John Glassell was a Scotsman who came to Fredericksburgh and became a promi- nent merchant there. A wharf there is still known as Glassell' s. He returned to Scot- land at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. His only daughter, whose marriage- portion was fifty thousand pounds sterling, married in 1820 Lord John Campbell, after- ward the seventh duke of Argyll ; and was the mother of the late duke. 2 See its text under August 7, post. VOL. VI. — 6.