By this time Bolling’s wife Mary has died and children Susan and Philip have married. Susan and her husband Robert Hubard are living with Lenaeus while planning to build a house. Son Robert is no longer mentioned, unless he is the father of grandson Lenaeus, who lives at Chellow. Pleasant Oliver works most days for Bolling, doing odd jobs, including carpentry. Bolling consults frequently with partners in a gold mining company. He observes a solar eclipse. He travels by carriage to Lynchburg and stays in a hotel for several days, visiting relatives, ordering clothing from tailors, and dealing with tenants of rental properties. He mentions having borrowed a pistol and sword after hearing of “the Southampon Insurrection of the execrable Nat Turner”. A neighbor offers to sell him the wife of one of Bolling’s slaves, and her two children. Another slave comes to ask Bolling to buy him, because his master is emigrating and the slave’s wife is nearby. 36 unnumbered pages; 17 cm. The first and last leaves are unattached. Some leaves are damaged. The text on the first page begins in mid-entry, indicating that pages are missing.

Notes made during processing with diary.