Friday, August 19 1757

At home all day. My wife and I papered up 240 papers of tobacco, weighing 55 lbs. Mr Slade and Mr Jordan called on me, but I gave neither of them any orders… Just as we were going to drink tea, my brother Moses and Mr Will Francis (Messrs Barlow and Wigginton’s rider) came in from Lewes… My brother and Mr Francis went away about 7:20. In the evening read part of Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities.

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