Colonel Lee stays Breakfast (to Speak in the phrase of Ladies)--The morning fine--Sermon is to Day at Ucomico so that I am to stay in my Room; _Ben_, however, & _Bob_, & _Harry_, & Mr _Randolph_ all go--_Fanny_ is yet confin'd to her Chamber-- _Monday 15._ Began a Letter to Jack Peck, giving him advice in Respect to his coming into this Colony--The People are better, only Miss _Fanny_ with her Sores continues in her Chamber; I bought & sent her however this evening a present a large _Musk Melon_--Dined with us Squire _Lee_, he talks of going to Philadelphia to the Congress; He informs us that in Maryland is a Tea-Ship, from the India Company-- _Teusday 16._ The Colonel is summoned to a Meeting of Vestry-Men, at the Glebe--Nothing very extraordinary occurs, unless I mention that _Bob_ in the former part of this Day kept pretty quiet in his Seat, and worked out three Sums in Reduction compound, without much direction!--About five from the South East came on suddenly a Gust of Rain & Wind, Evening the Colonel returned but a good deal vexed--One of the Members were absent so that the Remainder could do no Business-- [Illustration: graveyard scene] _Wednesday 17._ This Day is the annual Examination at Nassau-Hall--I wish the Candidates Success & Honour. Last year I had the Pleasure to be present & hear the Examination--I saw _Laura_ too; & the Vixen abused me! She shall repent of that insult; Indeed She must feel, tho' I wound myself in the experiment, the Consequence of Slighting good-humour & Civility--There likewise I saw _Belinda_ my late agreeable Correspondent. She had left town this unlovely Month, for the benefit of Princeton's pure salubrious Air--She laboured in a Consumption There too I took my last fare-well!--For soon after her return to Town the disorder fixed, & in a few Months destroy'd a _wise_, _useful_, _religious_ Girl--Her death surely was untimely, since she took with her all her virtues, which, with great pleasure & Sincerity She used to diffuse among her giddy Equals!--I am at a Loss to express my feeling for the Death of a young Lady, with whom I had only a short, yet a benificial Intimacy--The Circumstance of my first Acquaintance with her was wholly Accidental, yet I soon believed & accounted it advantageous--I thought her capable of improving me with Sentiment, & I speedily found that my expectation was true--We commenced a Litterary Correspondence, of which I only say that She always express'd herself with so much Truth, Ease & Humour as to make me read her Letters with eagerness and satisfaction--If I would record a Motto for her, it Should be--"Virtue without Melancholy." Breakfasted & dined with us two Gentlemen from Maryland--They come over for the benefit of Mr _Carter's_ Mill; as Mills are scarce near the Potowmack in Maryland; but the reason I am a stranger to--Read some in Dr Swift--Writing on to Mr Peck--The weather is close & this evening I heard two Musquetoes, only one of which ventured to light