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Diary of John Harroiver 83 insert the Coppy in it's proper place I now do it here before I insert the coppy of my second Letter to her from this country. Belvidera 14"' June 1774. My Dearest Life I wrote you from London on Wednesday 26'." Jan! last which Im hopefull came safe to hand, and found you and my dear Infants in perfect health, and am hopefull this will find both you and them in the same state. As I am at present and have been I bless God since I left you. You will remember when I wrote you last, I informed you that I was to go for Baltimore in Maryland, But I altred my design in that and came here it being a more healthy pleace. I sailed from London onFreiday the 4'." Febr last, and arrived in Hampton roads in Virginia on the 27 April, hav- ing been a Month of the time at Spithead in England. As to particulars of our ^'oyage &'" it would take up too much room here to insert it. But I have a Journal of every days transactions and remarcable Occur- ances since the morning I left you which will be amusing to you when please God we are spared to meet, for I design to see and prepare a way for you all in this Country how soon I am able. — I shall now aquant you w' my situation in this Country. I am now settled with on Colonel W".' Dangerfield Esq^ of Belvidera, on the Banks of the River Rappahannock about 1 60 miles from the Capes or sea mouth, and seven Miles below the Toun of Fredericksburgh. My business is to teach his Children to read write and figure, Edwin his oldest son about 8 years of [age] Bathurest his second 6 years of age and William his youngest son 4 years of age. he has also a Daughter whose name is Hanna Basset. I came to this place on Thursday 26"' May and next morning I received his three sons into my charge to teach, the two youngest boys I got in A : B : C. and the oldest Just begun to syllab and I have now the two youngest spell- ing and the oldest reading. I am obliged to teach in the English method which was a little aquard to me at first but now quite easy. I am also obliged to talk english the best I can,' for Lady Dangerfield speacks nothing but high english, and the Colonel hade his Education in Eng- land and is a verry smart Man. As to my agreement it is as follows Viz' I am obliged to continue with Coll Dangerfield for four years if he insists on it, and for teaching his own children I have Bed, Board, washing and all kind of Cloaths during the above time, and for what schoolars I can get more than his Children I have five shillings currency per Quarter for each of them, which is equall to four shillings sterling, and I expect ten or twelve to school next week, for after I hade been here eight days and my abilities and my behavior sufficiently tried, the Colonel rode through the neighbouring Gentlemen and Planters in order to procure scollars for me, so that I hope in a short time to make something of it. And as I have no Occasion to spend a farthing on myself every shilH I make shall be carefully remitted you, for your support and my Dear Infants. But I 'The Norse language was not quite extinct in Shetland in 1774, according to Low, Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, and the ordinary speech of the island- ers was a dialect much mixed with Norse words and forms.