met Dr Bulfinch on the Lines, we din'd at Mr Pierpoints[1] Roxbury. drank Coffee at Mr Hall's Watertown. slept at Mr Savages. Horse at Russell's.
Thursday 11th Fast day. I went to Lincoln Meeting, saw Mr Green, Call and Families at Mr. Adam's. Mr. Lawrence pray'd and pch'd a. m. prepare to meet thy God o Israel, spent Interval at Mr Lawrence's. I pray'd p.m. Mr. L. pch'd. supp'd with him. Mrs. Cooper not abroad. Slep't at Mr S. Horse at Russell's.
Friday 12. Went with Mrs Cooper in my Chaise to little Cambridg. Din'd with Mr Dennie. He gave me a Variety of Seed; I gave some to Mr Savage and the rest to J. Russell, went p. m. to old Cambridg. stop't at Congress at Watertown : found them engag'd on the Point of a new Governm't.[2] drank Tea at Waltham with Mrs Gill at her Lodgings. Mr. Edward Green and Lady there. Slept at Savages. Horse Russell's.
Saturday. 13. May.}} Went to Concord with Mr Savage. call'd at Mr Hubbard's: f'm thence to Mr. Emerson's.[3] He was abroad, engag'd to pch for him on the Morrow, while he was to supply Groton. return'd to Mrs Savages, we din'd there, we went with Mr Savage Sister Cooper to Nabby's chamber drank Coffee. Slept at Savages ; Horse at Russell's.
Lord' s day. 14. Went to Concord with Nabby. put my Horse at M' Hubbard's, found to my Surprize Mr. Emerson at the Meeting House Door. He pray'd I pch'd a. m. f'm, the Consolation of Israel. We din'd at Mr Emerson's, with Mr. Knox and Wife of Boston. I pray'd Mr Emerson pch'd p. m. we drank Coffee at Mr Hubbards. slept at Mr. Savages. Horse at Russell's.
Monday 15th My Wife and Daughter went to Medford in my Chaise, din'd at Mr Turell's. drank Tea at Mrs. Hunts Watertown. I din'd at Mr. S. drank Coffee at Sister Cooper's. My Wife and Nabby return' d in the Evg. slep't at Mr. S. Horse at Russell's.
Tuesday May 16. Went with Mr Savage, his Horse and chaise to see Mrs Greenleaf at Waltham, din'd with Genl Ward call'd at Mr Hall's Watertown, saw Mr Cook and Mr John Greenleaf. slept at Mr. S. Horse at R.
Wednesday, 17. Went with Mrs Cooper in my Chaise to see Madm Foyes[4] Family and Mr Bowdoin.[5] call'd at Deacon Tudors at little Cambridg. treated wth a Glass of Wine and Gingerbread, din'd with
- ↑ Robert Pierpont, a merchant, and member of the Boston Committee of Correspondence.
- ↑ "Whether there is now existing in this colony a necessity of taking up, and exercising the powers of civil government." Jour. Prov. Cong. Mass., p. 219.
- ↑ The Rev. William Emerson (H. C. 1761), minister of Concord, and chaplain at Ticonderoga, where he died in 1776. He was the grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- ↑ Elizabeth Foye, daughter of John Campbell, proprietor of the Boston News Letter. She married William Foye, a member of the Council and for many years treasurer of the Province, and had Mary, who married the Rev. William Cooper (his second wife), and had Mary, who married Dr. Samuel Gardner (H. C. 1746), of Milton, and left issue.
- ↑ James Bowdoin, LL.D., F.R.S., afterwards governor of Massachusetts.
