This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.

We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.