Paid Mr Jeremiah French 13/4 in full for the balance of the last year’s parish accounts due from Mr Piper. Also paid him 13/- in full for poor tax due from the devisees of Mr Piper; that is, myself and the other executors…
In the afternoon went to the parish meeting at John Jones’s where I made up the yearly accounts between Jeremiah French and John Vine Jr, the overseers and the parish, when there remained a balance of 4.16.11¾ due to Mr French and the other overseer John Vine. The overseers for the ensuing year are my own self, for the doing of which I am to have two guineas, and Richard Hope; the electioners John Watford and Joseph Durrant; churchwarden Jeremiah French, electioner John Vine Jr. I came home about 8:20 as sober as I went out.
Rec’d of Mr John Kennard £1 in full for 1 year’s land tax due at Lady Day last… Mr Porter’s maid drank tea with my servants… Thomas Durrant smoked a pipe with me.
Thank God pretty busy all day; nay, I may say very busy! Oh, how pleasant did business use to be in my dear Peggy’s life when the fatigue of the day was over! Then I had the opportunity of unbending my mind in the company of a most engaging and agreeable companion… [28 words omitted]…
This day was married at the church John Thomson and Mary Oliver, both of whom are parishioners of this parish.