The laws of humanity make it a duty for nations, as well as individuals, to succour those whom accident & distress have thrown upon them.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I.

Those who work in the nailery, are Moses, Wormly, Jame Hubbard, Barnaby, Isbel’s Davy, Bedford John, Bedford Davy, Phill Hubbard, Bartlet, and Lewis. They are sufficient for 2 fires, five at a fire.

we must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

the grounds which I destine to improve in the style of the English gardens…compose the Northern quadrant of a mountain for about 2/3 of it’s height, & then spread for the upper third over it’s whole crown. they contain about 300. acres, washed at the foot, for about a mile, by a river of the...

I think it the finest invention of the present age, and so much superior to the copying machine that the latter will never be continued a day by any one who tries the Polygraph.

I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain proportion of his income for charitable purposes, & that it is his further duty to see it so applied as to do the most good of which it is capable.

she has two independant water wheels, single geered, one turning a pair of 5. f. Burr stones, the other a pr of 6.f. do. she will be finished in the best manner with every modern convenience

bought a negro woman Lucretia Jame’s wife, her 2. sons John & Randall and the child of which she is pregnant, when born, for £180

the floor should be painted the instant you have it ready, and all other work should give way to the getting that ready