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23. Lord' s day. Confin'd at M' Savages by Weather and Indisposition. Horse kept.

24. Monday. Went with B^r Cooper to Watertown. din'd at Brewers, saw Dispatch^[1] f'm Hartford, slept at M^r Savages. Horse kept there.

25. Went with M^r Cooper towards Boston to be near at Hand in Case the Inhabitants s'd have Leave f'm Gen! Gage to quit the Town wch had been shut up since last Thursday : found no Communication between Boston and the Country, din'd at M^r John Dennies^[2] at little Cambridg.^[3] return'd to M{sup|r}} Savages, saw in the Way vast Number of our Militia marching in from the western Parts, slept at M^r Savages. Horse kept for first Night at Deacon Russell's.

Wednesday 26. Went in my Chaise to Cambridg, din'd at D' Ap- pleton's^[4] M^r Hill and M^r How came to see me there, bro't me a Letter f'm Gov' Pownall and another f'm D' Franklin. Went to the Committee of Safety, communicated D. [r] F.'s Letter, saw General Ward^[5] paid transient Comps to Him and Committee, heard on my return that D^r Bond^[6] of Marblehead was apprehended forgiving false Intelligence to Salem and Marblehead &c Forces by wc'h they were delay'd coming up to the Fight^[7] on Wednesday. Slept at M^r Savages. Horse at Deacon Russell's. Boston still shut up. my dear Nabby^[8] there, no communication. Reports that the Inhabitants were promis'd Liberty to leave the Town with their Effects upon giving up their Arms, that many had done so, but all still shut up. Reports also that the Forces from the Country wanting to be led immediately on to action began to grow uneasy.

Thursday 27. Went with M^r Cooper in my chaise to Cambridg, both din'd at President Langdon's,^[9] return'd to M^r Savages p.m. slept there. Horse at D. Russell's.

Friday 28. At M^r Savages, din'd there. Went with M^rsCooper to visit Sister C. at Park's. I visited Neighbors Fisk. Fuller. Osmore. Ephraim Parks, slept at M^r Savages. Horse at Russels

Sat. 29. Saturday. My Wife went to Cambridg with B^r Cooper in my Chaise. She took a Boy there and proceeded to Roxbury : to try

1. See Journ. Prov. Cong. Mass., p. 151, and note.
2. John Dennie, a prominent merchant and loyalist.
3. The southerly part of Cambridge, afterwards incorporated as the town of Brighton.
4. The Rev. Nathaniel Appleton, D.D. (H.C. 1712), for more than sixty-six years minister of Cambridge, and for nearly as long a fellow of the Corporation. He was the second person honored by the college with the degree of D.D., Increase Mather having been the first.
5. Artemas Ward, whose name stands first on the list of major-generals appointed by the Continental Congress, June 17, 1775. He had already been appointed by the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts commander of all the forces raised by that colony.
6. Nathaniel Bond (H.C. 1766), surgeon of the 14th Continental regiment, who was charged before the Committee of Safety " with having acted an unfriendly part to this colony." The charges were not sustained. See Journ. Prov. Cong. Mass., p. 555.
7. At Lexington and Concord.
8. His daughter, Abigail.
9. The Rev. Samuel Langdon, D.D., sometime minister of Portsmouth, N. H., and from 1774 to 1780 president of Harvard College.