Monday, May 23 1757

At home all day. Master Watford Sr at work for me all day a-cleaning out the sink etc. Dame Prall a-washing ½ the day for us. We dined on a piece of beef and pork boiled and turnip greens… This day read in the Gazette of the 20th instant that the King of Prussia had on the 6th instant gained complete victory over the whole combined forces of Austria (near Prague), taking their whole camp and 25 pieces of cannon and 6 or 7000 prisoners. In the evening Thomas Davy at our house, to whom I read one of Tillotson’s sermons.

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