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 8o Docmnents 7'" And may we all ever gloryfie thy name and loud thy praises sing and unto all make known the fame of Jehova our almighty king. 8'." O ever blessed be the Lord, the King of all the earth is he, let us exalt his name with one Accord and thankfull unto him be ye. Finis. After dinner I took a walk about a Miles distance from the house along the highway, and by the road side seed a Corn Mill and another pretty house called Snow Creek belonging to the Colonel. Tuesday, jist. This day there was about fifty white Ewes and Lambs feeding 'twix the main house and the school door and so tame that they wou'd come and look in at the door and see what we was doing, the lambs here are as large at this date as in Zetland at Michelsmass, being of the english bread. JJ'editesday, June ist. This day there was prayers in all the Churches in Virginia' on Acco! of the disagreement at present betwixt great Brittain and her Colonies in North America, On Acco! of their not agreeing to pay a duty on Tea laid on them by the british parliment and the Bostonians destroying a Quantity of Tea belonging to the British East India Comp'' in 1773. Freiday, 3d. This day I eat green pease at dinner, this being the last of them this season here. Wednesday, 8th. This day I eat plenty of fine ripe Cherries brought out of the woods this morning by the Colonel. Freiday, loih. Rec^ two pair fine new brown thread stockins. Below is an Inventory of the Cloaths &:c I brought to Belvidera with me Viz. One Superfine Brown Cloath Coat full mounted. One D° vest Coat. One floored^ silk D° One fine marsyled ' D° One Brown Duffel D° One pair new black Stockins Britches One pair new Doe skin D° One pair flannen Drawers. One pair Osenburgh * D° 1 The fast-day decreed by the Virginia House of Burgesses. .See Jefferson's autobi- ography. 2 Flowered. 3 Marseilles.
 * Osnaburg.