Paid John Watford Sr in cash and goods 6/- in full for work done for me. I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Mr Blackman’s servant drank tea with me. At home all day; wrote out Mrs Piper’s bill. In the evening Sam Jenner and I played a few games of cribbage…
I this day heard of the melancholy news of the death of my old acquaintance and worthy friend Mr John Long, who died on Monday last of the smallpox under inoculation; a very sober and worthy young man, but from a bad constitution had the smallpox excessively full, which proved mortal.