Day: August 26, 1723

1723 August 26 (Monday).  I expected Barrett and was very Impatient that he did not come.  In the Evening Mr. Ward[1] (as I remember) and one or two more were to See me, and he Appointed to go with me tomorrow to Hopkinton.  Accordingly on the

[1]Increase Ward.

[1723 August?] 26.  I was sent for in the Evening to visit a sick Young Woman at Mr. Tomlin’s.[1]  I went and pray’d with her.

 

[No date.]  I walked to the Meeting House with a Pistol in my Hand by reason of Danger of the Indians.  When I return’d was much affrighted with the Sight of an Indian as I suppos’d; but drawing nigher I perceiv’d it was my Landlord.  In the afternoon about 4 o’Clock, there was an Alarm in the North and people hastened with their Arms, But it came to little.

[1]Deacon Isaac Tomlin.