Clear day. Morning to town. Afternoon reading and evening at the Mansion as usual.

My Mother, Mary, my Wife and I went to the City in order to take an account of the amount and nature of the losses. Upon examination, we could find nothing but a gold watch gone which I bought some years since at Washington. The object of this conduct seems difficult to divine.

The remainder of the morning was passed in hunting up workmen to repair damages, which all things considered are not great. And I feel on the whole very glad that as every thing was at the mercy of the plunderer, he took or spoiled so little.

Afternoon Lucretius l. 258–425. He makes a curious system of his metaphysical science. Finished the letters of Bayle.