Mr _Stadley_ came in before Breakfast. He inform'd us that Governor _Dunmore_ has gone to the Frontiers with about 400 Men to subdue the Indians--That the Indians seem disheartened, & leave their towns, & are unwilling to fight--Mrs _Carter_, out of Compliment, this morning presented to _Ben_ & _I_ for staying at home yesterday, a large fine _Cake_--Dined with us a Stranger--_Ben_ with great Humour either out of a _Bravado_ or for Revenge gave out in the Family to day that it is the opinion of a certain _Female_, of considerable Note in the family, that all the male Children which shall be born in this unlucky year, tho' they may be fair to the Sight, will be yet unable, from a Debility of Constitution, to do their Duty, with respect to Women, either married or single--That She has two reasons for this opinion, 1. Because the Air appears to her extremely _barren_, _weak_, & _ungenerative_--2. Because the Peaches, & other Fruit, are observed this year to have in them very few Kernels, at the same time that the Peaches are sweet & fair--I think that _Ben_, by this stratagem, whether it be real or otherwise, is levil with the invidious Vixen which suspected him of entering the Nursery to visit black-faced Sukey-- _Saturday 10._ With the Boys I Surveyed a small field lying along the Richmond Road; the Colonel has a good _Theodolite_ & other Aparatus for Surveying--English Magazines, & Reviews arrived to Day--One of the Books lately published I am desirous to purchase viz.--Dr _Henry's_ History of Great Britain on a new Plan. This history is to be contained in ten Books, each of which will be divided into seven chapters. In the first Chapter of every Book, the Author relates, the civil & military History of Great Britain--The second chapter contains the ecclesiastical History of the same period: the third presents us with the history of our political constitution, Government, Laws, & Courts of justice: the fourth is employed upon what relates to Learning & Learned men: the fifth investigates the State of the useful & ornamental Arts: the sixth enquires into that of commerce, Shipping, Money, with the prices of commodities: & the last Chapter of every Volume is alloted to a Detail of the Manners, Virtues, Vices, remarkable Customs, Language, Dress, Diet, & Diversions of the Great Britains--Six o-Clock, Mrs _Turberville_, Miss _Jenny Corbin_, and Miss _Turberville_ came in; Miss _Corbin_ has been, all the Summer, at her Brothers on Rapahanock forty miles distant.[201]--I saw, in the evening, in Mr Randalls[202] Room, a Young man about twenty years old, totally deaf, & dumb! He is well-set, lusty, & likely; he is cheerful, good natur'd, extremely dextrous, quick of apprehension, &, in short, very conversable, & sociable by signs--he was taken to the much famed Dr _Graham_,[203] when he was in this Colony trumpeting about his own unproved Abilities; he fumbled with the unfortunate Lad, by blooding, gouging, boreing &c.